W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you replace the narrow specifics of your demand with broader intention, you allow the Universe the freedom to conspire on your behalf.”
“When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.”
“When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.”
“When you reproduce yourself, you don’t spend your life, you multiply it.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
“When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.”
Source: A Thomas Merton Reader
“When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.”
“When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.”
“When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.”
“When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy.”
“When you resist something that has been established for a long time it's like stepping into a highly charged electrical field the opposite to its charge and getting electrocuted. It took a lot of energy to create this object that you are trying to resist against, so it will take a lot of energy to shift it. In other words, its going to take a lot of work. But don't lose hope. Just like any dream worth achieving, it can take time. Make progress. Build a foundation. Surround yourself with like energies and you will create a force field of energy all around you.”
“When you resist the victim mentality, you will never live the rest of your life as a victim. You will live like a victorious person who keeps walking in victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.”
“When you resolve what you see on the inside, you begin to solve what you see on the outside.”
“When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.”
Source: Seduction of Our Children
“When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.”
“When you respect others, you are secretly respecting yourself.”
“When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.”
“When you respect someone, you make a conscious choice to not cross their boundaries. Regardless of the type of relationship that you have with one another.”
“When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too.”
Source: The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
“When you respect your time, others will do the same.”
“When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows”
“When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.”
“When you respond to your heart you are responding to love.”
“When you respond, you accustom; when you react, you take revenge!”
“When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.”
“When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.”
“When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.”
“When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.”
“When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.”
“When you rest, you realign. Stop running on fumes and start achieving with intention and energy.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“When you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activity…it is a gift from God.”
“When you retire for the evening, do you try to go to sleep, or do you fall asleep? Huge difference – huge result. Awaken to that and you will rest in peace.”
Source: Homecoming: Crossing the Bridge to the Soul
“When you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long.”
“When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?”
“When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.”
“When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please”
“When you retire, you start to try different things and you choose the one you enjoy the most. As a player, it's difficult to know if you'll be a good manager or not because you might think you can't deal with the dressing room or won't enjoy the game from the sidelines. There's also punditry and careers on TV, so football gives you many different options.”
“When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.”
“When You Return
Fallen leaves will climb back into trees.
Shards of the shattered vase will rise
and reassemble on the table.
Plastic raincoats will refold
into their flat envelopes. The egg,
bald yolk and its transparent halo,
slide back in the thin, calcium shell.
Curses will pour back into mouths,
letters un-write themselves, words
siphoned up into the pen. My gray hair
will darken and become the feathers
of a black swan. Bullets will snap
back into their chambers, the powder
tamped tight in brass casings. Borders
will disappear from maps. Rust
revert to oxygen and time. The fire
return to the log, the log to the tree,
the white root curled up
in the un-split seed. Birdsong will fly
into the lark’s lungs, answers
become questions again.
When you return, sweaters will unravel
and wool grow on the sheep.
Rock will go home to mountain, gold
to vein. Wine crushed into the grape,
oil pressed into the olive. Silk reeled in
to the spider’s belly. Night moths
tucked close into cocoons, ink drained
from the indigo tattoo. Diamonds
will be returned to coal, coal
to rotting ferns, rain to clouds, light
to stars sucked back and back
into one timeless point, the way it was
before the world was born,
that fresh, that whole, nothing
broken, nothing torn apart.”
Source: Like a Beggar
“When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.”
“When you return, we'll take armfuls of books out to the unmown lawn and lie on a blanket with them spread about us. We will read to each other and watch the gulls wheeling above. If we are shat upon, you will teach me to swear in Norwegian.”
Source: Swimming Lessons
“When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.”
Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems
“When you reunite with your soul, everything that you think changes and all of the pain goes away.”
“When you reveal all you cheat the observer of their contribution.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“When you revealed that the Rani was in fact the Nagi," Charlie said, "the players collectively pissed their pants."
"I'd rather they creamed their jeans.”
Source: This is Not a Game
“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”
“When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.”
“When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.”
“When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.”