W Quotes
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“We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.”
Source: Guerrilla Warfare
“We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.”
“We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“We are oversupplied with people and books that make us know more, but are undersupplied with those that make us think and live better.”
“We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.”
Source: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.
“We are overworked and overstressed, constantly dissatisfied, and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher.”
Source: Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“We are pack!”
Source: Royal Assassin
“We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.”
“We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.”
Source: Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.”
“We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.”
“We are paralyzed from advancing as a society, advancing as a culture because so many of the dominantly influential people in our country are actual idiots who don't even have the ability to understand common sense when they hear it.”
“We are part and parcel of a single and all-encompassing evolutionary current that is itself Spirit-in-action, the mode and manner of Spirit's creation, and thus is always going beyond what went before-that leaps, not crawls, to new plateaus of truth, only to leap again, dying and being reborn with each new quantum lurch, often stumbling and bruising its metaphyscical knees, yet always getting right back up and jumping yet again.”
Source: The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings
“We are part animal, and that part of us needs to function well. Otherwise, when we add the higher parts to our animal base, the latter will stress with the weight. The body is not a goal in itself, but it is the medium that makes it possible for us to be here.”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.”
Source: Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World
“We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.”
“We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.”
Source: Civilisation
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”
“We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.”
“We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"”
“We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.”
“We are part of someone’s story, not just the main character in our own.”
“We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.”
“We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.”
“We are part of the natural environment; we grow out of it in the same way that a wave emerges from the ocean or a tree grows in the forest.”
Source: The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing
“We are part of the natural world and evolved within its embrace. This understanding is perhaps as ancient as humanity itself. Giving children the gift of knowing nature as their home, of feeling themselves as part of the web of life is an invaluable life resource for exploring their inner self and for developing their ability to act in this world and on its behalf.
It is perhaps our culture’s break with nature, the viewing of our planet as nothing more than a collection of things to be exploited and discarded, that has brought us to this time of crisis. And perhaps more than anything else, this time of turmoil and transformation calls for a rediscovery of humanity’s place within the earth community. This revisioning of our relationship with life on earth, rooted in indigenous wisdom and shaped for contemporary times, is perhaps the cornerstone of the human initiation and evolution being called for today.
For children to discover their place within the natural world, to grow their connection with it, has everything to do with their ability to remain grounded in turbulent times, everything to do with their being able to grow their vision and play their part in this upcoming transition.”
Source: Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive
“We are part of the problem. If, When we see something wrong. We are not doing anything about it. We just talk and laugh about it.”
“We are part of the same society. We are part of the same humanity. When humanity is happy, we will be happy. When humanity is peaceful, our own lives are peaceful. ... We must develop the sense of 'we'. Once you're able to develop that sense of common humanity and the oneness of humanity, then naturally you will want all others to be free from suffering and enjoy happiness. The desire for happiness is a natural instinct shared by everyone.”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.”
“We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.”
Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents
“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”
“We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.”
“We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility for certain problems and emphasising individual responsibility promotes detrimental perceptions and behaviours amongst individuals, who adopt and adapt similar explanations to justify their own lack of responsibility. For instance, admissibility of diminished responsibility arguments in criminal sentencing can be viewed as a direct consequence of a broader public acceptance of explanatory models purporting to prove a direct causal relationship between pharmacology, mental health and/or diminished ability to function.”
“We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than we have today. For the most part they are true to the faith of their forebears. Surrounded by forces that would pull them down and tremendous pressures to pull them away from time-tested virtues, they are going forward with constructive lives, nurturing themselves both intellectually and spiritually. We have no fears or doubts concerning the future of this work.”
“We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge of Allegiance. These words will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man.”
“We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This is the essence of our aloneness.”
“We are passengers in this world, each person must travel on his or her on sacred path.”
“We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.”
“We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.”
“We are past opposition. I mean, we've crossed that threshold before [Donald] Trump was inaugurated.”
“We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused...You have been described, do not accept any other description!”
“We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.”
“We are pawns of life, in dreams,
Queens and kings of fate, it seems -
In our earthly realm we dare to think,
But instead of reigning, we fall to sleep.”
Source: Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen
“We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism”
“We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.”
Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic