W Quotes
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“When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.”
“When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.”
Source: The Queen of All that Lives
“When you live without your own language you feel weightless and, at the same time, overloaded. You breathe another type of air, at a different altitude. You are always aware of the difference.”
Source: In Other Words
“When you live.. You can die.. Accept it... ..and become fearless”
“When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.”
“When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.”
“When you live your life in alignment with a purpose that is centered on selflessly adding value for others, opportunities become abundant and your life becomes fulfilled.”
“When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.”
“When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.”
“When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.”
“When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.”
Source: The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence
“When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull”
“When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.”
Source: Top Dog
“When you livin' this high you can't be afraid of heights.”
“When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'”
“When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.”
“When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.”
“When you lock everyone out, you also lock yourself in.”
Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction
“When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.”
“When you lock your excuses, you unlock your limitlessness.”
“When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!”
“When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.”
Source: The Denton Welch Journals
“When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.”
“When you look across the ring at me, and you look into my eyes, you are not immmortal, you are not an icon; you are just like everybody else. You are an obstacle, and I will run you over. And that is not a threat, that is not a warning; that is just a fact! Because brother, I am THE GAME...and I AM THAT...DAMN...GOOD!”
“When you look around and feel that nobody cares about you, just take a breath, look up and know that He Cares for you. The Lord your God truly cares.”
“When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.”
“When you look around at your community, you may feel some disappointment, worry or apprehension at the state of affairs. You see so much suffering - neighbors arguing, countries fighting, and children being neglected. Merely wishing for everyone to experience divine life on earth will not bring it about. However, we have the capacity to make this world heaven, behinning with how we interact in the world. This is called divinely living - to carry loving-friendliness in our hearts rather than ill will. Just as we can make hell on earth, meeta practice can make heaven on earth.”
Source: Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
“When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been. We've turned it into war. We're talking about a bunch of semi-lunatic, fanatic criminals. That's the way they should be treated.”
“When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.”
“When you look around the room during meetings and practice, you see that everyone has the same goal. It's obvious by the way that everyone is preparing and getting ready.”
“When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.”
“When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it -- create it! The key is to design a compelling destination, while enjoying the journey!”
“When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?”
“When you look at "Obamacare," the Congressional Budget Office has said it will cost $2,500 a year more than traditional insurance. So it's adding to cost. And as a matter of fact, when the president ran for office, he said that by this year he would have brought down the cost of insurance for each family by $2,500 a family. Instead, it's gone up by that amount. So it's expensive. Expensive things hurt families. So that's one reason I don't want it.”
“When you look at a beautiful view from a window, the beautiful view also looks at you from the same window! But the window looks at both you and the view! Wise man is the window itself; he looks at everywhere!”
“When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here and different angles to him," and you're not sure what his motives are, you've got a good shot at working towards something interesting.”
“When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.”
“When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.”
“When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world is because we want to buy cheap stuff. If Donald Trump were to change trade laws, we couldn't buy the cheap stuff or in our Wal-Marts, they would cost a whole lot more.”
“When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.”
Source: Friendship Village Love Stories
“When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.”
“When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.”
“When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.”
“When you look at a house, you don't see how happy the people are who live in it.”
“When you look at a map you’ll be struck by the fact that Chile is the longest and thinnest country in the world. While averaging only slightly more than 100 miles wide from west to east, it’s nearly 3,000 miles long from north to south: almost as long as the U.S. is wide. Geographically, Chile is isolated from other countries by the high chain of the Andes in the east separating it from Argentina, and by the world’s most barren desert in the north separating it from Bolivia and Peru.”
Source: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
“When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.”
“When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.”
“When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long.”
“When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose.”
“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie