W Quotes
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“We cannot change everything about life and its various episodes, but some of them can be wiped out of our memory for sure.”
“We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.”
Source: One Holy Passion: The Consuming Thirst to Know God
“We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950
“We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.”
Source: Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps: New Stories
“We cannot change our destiny. We just have to have the courage to know what it is, and accept it... - Cinderpelt”
Source: Moonrise
“We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.”
“We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.”
“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”
“We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.”
“We cannot change our ugly past but we can make a better present.”
“We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.”
Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
Source: The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.”
Source: The last lecture
“We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed”
“We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.”
“We cannot change the history of the past.”
“We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.”
“We cannot change the past, but we can learn from it. As platitudinous as this might sound, it is worth reiterating at a time when cultural revolutionaries are promoting a tunnel-visioned approach to history and the arts. An alternative reality based on a denial of the past is no kind of reality at all.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.”
Source: Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
“We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.”
“We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.”
“We cannot change the way society views women until we address the mixed messages we send about their value”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.”
“We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.”
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
“We cannot change what we don’t acknowledge. We cannot conquer what we don’t confront. If we don’t deal with it, it is certain to deal with us. This is where many often get derailed, disabled, and eventually defeated.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."”
“We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both”
“We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can ... our attitude.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.”
“We cannot choose our circumstances, but we can choose how we handle them.”
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”
Source: The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
“We cannot choose our rebirth, but we are reborn according to our karma.”
Source: The Full Circle for Mick
“We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.”
“We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.”
“We cannot choose to have a life free of hurt. But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible.”
Source: The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to.”
“We cannot choose with whom we cohabit the world.”
“We cannot claim to love the scars of others when we can't love our own.”
“We cannot climb the mountain with a desultory heart.”
“We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!”
“We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.”
“We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.”
“We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
“We cannot complain to the possibility.”