W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.”
“We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?”
“We can choose to accept the fact that a challenge may be quite impossible, or we can choose to challenge the impossible.”
“We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.”
Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope
“We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.”
“We can choose to be grateful, no matter what.”
“We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.”
“We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.”
“We can choose to be the Incarceration Nation or, once again, become the land of the free.”
Source: A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose
“We can choose to believe in ourselves, and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere, and to achieve. Or we can choose to cling to security and mediocrity. We can choose to set no limits on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams. We can use those dreams to fuel our spirits with passion.”
Source: How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.”
“We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.”
Source: Daily Splashes of Joy: 365 Gems to Sparkle Your Day
“We can choose to go wherever the winds of life happen to blow us, or we can intentionally chart a course that will blow us away. And as I ponder that thought, I realize that there are very few decisions in life whose destinations are so frighteningly opposite.”
“We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.”
“We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.”
“We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .”
“We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.”
“We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble ourselves by forgiving those who have offended us. We can choose to humble ourselves by rendering selfless service. We can choose to humble ourselves by going on missions and preaching the word that can humble others. We can choose to humble ourselves by getting to the temple more frequently. We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, submitting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives. Let us choose to be humble. We can do it. I know we can.”
“We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .”
“We can choose to keep shooting up the curve of exponential growth, bringing us ever closer to irreversible tipping points in ecological collapse, and hope that technology will save us. But if for some reason it doesn’t work, then we’re in trouble.
It’s like jumping off a cliff while hoping that someone at the bottom will
figure out how to build some kind of device to catch you before you crash
into the rocks below, without having any idea as to whether they’ll actually be able to pull it off.
It might work … but if not, it’s game over. Once you jump, you can’t change your mind.
If we’re going to take this approach, the evidence for it had better be rock solid. We’d better be dead certain it will work.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.”
“We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.”
“We can choose to try to persuade people who are repeating demagogic talking points while choosing not to get into arguments with them.
Demagoguery about 'them' is undone by empathy. Generalizations about 'them' are complicated, and sometimes shattered, by experiences with individual members of 'them,' or even humanizing stories. Tell those stories, mention those friends, talk about those experiences, and just refuse to argue. Invite your interlocutor to meet 'them,' point out the individuals who don't fit the stereotype, and, if you are a member of their out-group, then resist your interlocutor's desire to treat you as an exception. Many of the people who explain how they came to reject demagoguery about some out-group say they were changed when they got to know (and love) people in that group, or when they discovered that people whom they had long loved were members of the out-group. Just bear witness to the glory of diversity and pluralism.”
Source: Demagoguery and Democracy
“We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.”
“We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.”
“We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.”
“We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.”
“We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.”
“We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups.”
“We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.”
“We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.”
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to work, play, destroy, or create. We can allow a variety of cultural factors or other people to define who we are, or we can create a self-definition. We decide what to monitor in the environment. We regulate how much attention we pay to nature, other people, or the self. We can watch and comment upon current cultural events and worldly happenings or withdraw and ignore the external world. We can drink alcohol, dabble with recreational drugs, play videogames, or watch television, films, and sporting events. We can travel, go on nature walks, camp, fish, and hunt, climb mountains, or take whitewater-rafting trips. We can build, paint, sing, create music, write poetry, or read and write books. We can cook, barbeque, eat fine cuisine at restaurants or go on fasts. We can attend church services, worship and pray, or chose to embrace agnosticism or atheism. We can belong to charitable organizations or political parties. We can actively or passively support or oppose social and ecological causes. We can share time with family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances or live alone and eschew social intermixing.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
“We can come to see ourselves as having the same natural life and force as the seas and trees, with their natural seasons, cycles and rhythms.”
Source: Daily Soul Bytes: For an Inspired Life
“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”
“We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.”
“We can compare our attention to light: If we focus our concentration on something, we might say that we are “shining a spotlight” on it. When we practice open awareness, rather than shining a spotlight on one particular thing, we might say that we allow our awareness to “shine” in all directions around us, like the glow of a candle flame.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“We can compare spirituality with gym, for constructing physical health we go to gym and for constructing mental health we must go to spirituality.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Source: A Tour Round My Garden
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
“We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated
“We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.”
“We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live”
“We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.”
“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.”