W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can’t heal what we don’t feel. We can’t have a future until we fully inhabit our present. It’s like the proverbial Groundhog Day. Most people don’t live 70-90 years; they live the same year 70-90 times because they keep regurgitating an incomplete present.”
“We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.”
Source: Something Like Fate
“We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.”
“We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.”
“We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.”
“We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.”
Source: A Voice at the Borders of Silence: An Intimate View of the Gurdjieff Work, Zen Buddhism, and Art
“We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'”
“We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.”
Source: Jesus is Victor
“We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.”
Source: Divergent Trilogy
“We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.”
“We cap our ability to succeed when we work solo. When we come together, we multiply both ideas and effort; we increase the capacity to succeed.”
Source: Pursuit of Personal Leadership: Practical Principles of Personal Achievement
“We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not about egotism, greed, or competition. This means that we prefer to work with people and bands that have a similar sort of mentality and attitude.”
“We care about how many players you develop rather than how many trophies you win.”
“We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.”
“We care (about prison education), very simply, because (prisoners) get out. Almost everyone who is locked up now is going to be set free one day. If we treat prisoners like animals the whole time they are locked up, that's what we'll get when they're back on the streets: wild, dangerous animals.”
Source: College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons
“We care deeply for the creatures that depend on us, expecting nothing, really, and getting so very much from them. Loving them takes courage, because love requires daring. Daring to risk the pain of loss--and accepting that they will only ever be temporary in our lives. Mourning them when they are gone speaks of our bond with them, and our willingness to give loss its due--by feeling it fully, then recovering wisely. Our animals make us better people. We do not abuse our strength, and we do not deny our empathy.”
Source: Valdemar
“We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.”
“We care little about what the average citizen thinks.”
“We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.”
Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].
“We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.”
“We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.”
“We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.”
“We carry a new world in our hearts. That world is growing every minute.”
“We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.”
“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.”
“we carry all the weight,
and we create all the beauty,
until we learn that we deserve someone
who carries their own weight,
and radiates their own beauty
– the evolution of worth”
“We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.”
“We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.”
Source: The Sunflower
“We carry in our head until we die the living and the dead.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.”
Source: Collected Poems
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
“We carry mercy in the absence of
Justice.”
“We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“We carry on not by letting go of the worries that burden us; but by staying true to our hearts & the meaning that surrounds us.”
“We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepers. We can tie weights to out guilt and passions, and hatred and deceitfulness, and let them sink down, so that you'd never know they existed at all. But we know. I can count all mine.”
Source: Oystercatchers
“We carry our childhood with us.”
“We carry our envy amplification device around in our pockets, we sleep with it next to our pillows, and it tempts us 24 hours a day, the moment we wake up, even if it is the middle of the night.”
“We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.”
“We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?”
Source: The Majesty of Calmness
“We carry our own worlds with us, and our realities are what we perceive them to be. We all draw our own lines in the sand.”
Source: Dysfunction
“We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.”
“We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.”
Source: Shrapnel
“We carry sin around until the weight of it brings us to our knees.”
“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”
“We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.”
“We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.”
“We carry the world. They did. All those young men did. They carried the world, and it was heavy, and they didn't know what to do with it. Was this the rest? Was this the war? Things had already spun out of control and they weren't always as black and white or as right or wrong as Nick liked to think.”
Source: A Hard And Heavy Thing
“We carry things long after the moment has passed. The offhand remark. The missed opportunity. The ‘not good enough’ echoing in our heads.
You don’t owe your future the weight of someone else’s failure to see you.”
“We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.”
Source: The Culture of Education