W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can learn again to live creatively and artfully by looking to the things that give us breath and take our breath away.”
Source: Let There Be Art
“We can learn even from our enemies.”
“We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.”
“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”
Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought
“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.”
“We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.”
“We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.”
“We can learn from our experiences and open ourselves to the new chapters of our lives that are yet to be written.”
Source: Along New Paths: Short Stories
“We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.”
Source: Joe Torre's ground rules for winners: 12 keys to managing team players, tough bosses, setbacks, and success
“We can learn from the grass,
tiny fragile blades that somehow manage
to push through the cracks
in the cement of
the sidewalk.
We can learn from water, wearing down
mountains
into sand,
from little droplets becoming floods,
oceans,
tidal waves.
We can learn from all upheavals from struggles for justice
because they only seem inevitable in hindsight--
while they are happening they feel grueling
if not impossible.
We can learn from Elie Wiesel, who
shared his bread in the concentration camp so more people
could eat some
instead of hording it so he
could eat fully.”
“We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.”
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.”
“We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We can learn so much about the living, according to how they treat their dead. And we can see the true colours of people coming out, when we observe how they act and react, to the circumstances that come about after the death of a loved one. Lastly, we learn about the things most important in our lives, when we experience the loss called death. It is extraordinary how death can give back so much to life and to the living.”
“We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.”
“We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.”
Source: Making Contact
“We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!”
“We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.”
“We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.”
“WE CAN LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA’S HISTORY WITHOUT SPREADING HATE.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.”
Source: The Pocket Pema Chodron
“We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.”
Source: Simple Abundance
“We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.”
“We can learn to become open to all the varied and, sometimes, unexpected ways in which love will bless us and use us.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“We can learn to claim our closeness with our partners—to push back against the world’s duties and pressures and insist upon our time together. A little bit of time each and every week is all we’re after. Enough to reconnect, to keep our desire alive and well, and to escape from life’s stresses and obligations long enough to let go into each other.”
Source: The Naked Marriage: Undressing the truth about sex, intimacy and lifelong love
“We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.”
“We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way.”
Source: Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance for Daily Life
“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words--and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)”
Source: The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement
“We can learn to protect ourselves against malicious hackers and scam artists, allowing ourselves to feel calmer and more confident in any situation. Critically, we can learn to become far more self-aware about how we’re communicating.”
Source: Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You
“WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune; often happiness comes in ways we don’t even notice.”
Source: The Pocket Pema Chodron
“We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment.”
Source: Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Openhearted Awareness
“We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.”
“We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.”
“we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.”
“We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.”
Source: The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind
“We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.”
Source: The Other Side of Heaven
“We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.”
Source: The Other Side of Heaven
“We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.”
“We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01
“We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“We can let our goals motivate and inspire us, but we don’t want to let them determine our happiness or self worth.”
Source: Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
“We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!”
“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.”
“We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.”
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
“We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.”
“We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”
“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition