W Quotes
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“Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.”
“Whoever has become a servant of the Lord fears only his Master. But whoever is without the fear of God is often afraid of his own shadow. Fearfulness is the daughter of unbelief. A proud soul is the slave of fear; hoping in itself, in comes to such a state that it is startled by a small noise, and is afraid of the dark.”
“Whoever has been spared the worst is lucky.”
Source: The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
“Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.”
“whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.”
Source: Heidi
“Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.”
“Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.”
“Whoever has experienced near-death, knows how gracious, it is to be alive.”
“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.”
“Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.”
Source: Means and Ends of Education
“Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.”
Source: Life of Prayer
“Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds.”
“Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.”
Source: THE MAGIC
“Whoever has Heart's doors wide open,
could see the Sun itself in every atom.”
“Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy”
“Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.”
“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.”
“Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.”
“Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.”
“Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn’t bring happiness”
“Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.”
Source: Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
“Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.”
“Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.”
“Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.”
“Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.”
Source: The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1
“Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Whoever has not known the pleasures of open stacks—with their erotically charged corridors.”
Source: The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
“Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.”
“Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.”
“Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.”
“Whoever has obtained his experience of vice in connection with pleasure as in the case of one with a youth of wild oats behind him, comes to the conclusion that virtue must be connected with self denial. Whoever, on the other hand, has been very much plagued by his passions and vices, longs to find in virtue the rest and peace of the soul. That is why it is possible for two virtuous people to misunderstand one another wholly.”
“Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.”
“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.”
“Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.”
“Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.”
“Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix à", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.”
“Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.”
“Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.”
“Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.”
Source: Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes
“Whoever has the courage to walk in the dark, share experience the dawn of light in a new day.”
“Whoever has the desire to pursue philosophy correctly should look to Nature's Archetype in every matter, so that by taking up Ariadne's thread in her intricate labyrinth he may keep himself safe and secure from wrong turns and deviant paths.”
“Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Whoever has the mind stuffed with theories and more theories, suffers horribly because he is unable to realize nothing of what they have read.”
“Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.”
“Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.”
“Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.”
“Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.”