W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”
Source: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace
“Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind.”
“Whenever we experience suffering, we share in the sufferings of Christ and become like him in his death. When the believer goes through suffering, God does not only confirm and restore them, but he also strengthens and establishes them for His eternal glory in Christ.”
Source: Wonderfully Made: What the Bible Says about the Human Race
“Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.”
“Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.”
“Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Whenever we find ourselves stuck, whenever we find ourselves lost or confused by the chaos of the world, we can be sure that the only way to free ourselves is to take action of some kind. Action is the only thing that ever changes anything and in a world that ever changes, it is the best way to keep ourselves in the flow of the world unfolding.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.”
“Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.”
Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“Whenever we get the chance, we should lift others up. -Matt's Mom”
“Whenever we give help, we unfailingly see that the answer to all our needs is already within the very situation we think is hurting us. By becoming totally open and harmless, we see that there is no one who cannot help us and no instant when we are not surrounded by God's love and His guiding presence.”
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force”
“Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“Whenever we have any experience, we interpret the experience. We interpret every observation. We then insert our interpretations of our experiences into our worldviews. We accumulate interpretations of experiences in our worldviews. Our worldviews seem like reality, but they aren’t real. We could call our worldviews “worldly wisdom.” They aren’t the wisdom that God imparts, but God speaks to us about His wisdom as compared to worldly wisdom.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.”
Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity
“Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.”
“Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.”
“Whenever we have to praise God, what do we do? We simply say what He is! ‘You are this and You are that.’ There is no other praise. We cannot fetch anything from anywhere else and bring it to God; the praises of God are simply the facts about Himself! If you want to praise the Lord Jesus Christ, tell the people about Him.”
“Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.”
“Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!”
“Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.”
“Whenever we least expect it, loving support appears, often in a form we could never have anticipated.”
“Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.”
Source: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.”
Source: The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
“Whenever we look at “successful people,” we imagine we are seeing the whole picture, but it is only the tip of the iceberg that interests us and that we observe.”
“Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the shapes or textures, or other information from a place that have helped mold our understanding and are now necessary for us to thrive. Overdevelopment and urban sprawl can damage our own lives as much as they damage our cities and countryside.”
Source: The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Count ryside
“Whenever we make the choice to bring fear into the light with truth-seeking questions, we shall find soul-growing answers.”
“Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
“Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot”
Source: Integral Psychology
“Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.”
“Whenever we plant seeds, I like to hold them in my hands before putting them in the soil, just so I can look at them – little dots that will somehow grow into food that will help to keep us alive. How can such a tiny thing carry so much bigness inside it? I don’t understand how it works, but I love that it does.”
Source: My Name is Monster
“Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.”
“Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.”
“Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.”
Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra
“Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.”
“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.”
Source: Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science
“Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'”
“Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.”
Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.”
Source: The age of reason
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.”
Source: The age of reason
“Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.”
Source: The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World
“Whenever we remember a series of events, we remember them different. We are constantly changing. It's a flaw, but on the other hand, when we say a word, the meaning is not what you put into it. Rather, the meaning of the word is all of the past usages of that word. Like this cloud that makes up the meaning of the word. It's your subject if you write. For instance what you put in that word and what you assume it means, even its flaw. It has a general agreement.”
“Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.”