W Quotes
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“We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.”
Source: The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology
“We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.”
Source: Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
“We do not have to be victims of circumstance.”
“We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.”
“We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.”
“We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.
This is a difficult process because of how restricted our capacities for attention usually are. We do not suspend our judgments easily, nor do we generally have access to our childhood capacity for curiosity and exploration. Our attentional resources are hijacked early in our lives by our need to manage the intrusive or ignoring familial environments in which we are immersed. As a result, many of us end up in unreal states, stuck in our heads, unaware of our bodies, and unaware of being unaware.”
“We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment.”
“We do not have to do with others as "they really are" but with our idea of them.
This means that the experience of loss occurs both when we really lose someone and when this someone, for whatever reason, no longer corresponds to the idea we had of him.
It is an inner grief just as strong and from which we often defend ourselves, as long as we can, through denial.
Denial ends when the energy needed to deny becomes superior to what it takes to process the loss and move on.”
“We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death.”
“We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline
“We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.”
“We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”
“We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.”
“We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.”
“We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.”
“We do not have to plump for the one or the other [extreme].
We experience the simultaneous attraction and repulsion of the event and the non-event. Just as, according to Hannah Arendt, we are confronted in any action with the unforeseeable and the irreversible.
But, since the irreversible today is the movement towards virtual ascendancy over the world, towards total control and technological 'enframing', towards the tyranny of absolute prevention and technical security, we have left to us only the unpredictable, the luck of the event.
And just as Mallarmé said that a throw of the dice would never abolish chance - that is to say, there would never be an ultimate dice throw which, by its automatic perfection, would put an end to chance - so we may hope that virtual programming will never abolish events.
Never will the point of technical perfection and absolute prevention be reached where the fateful event can be said to have disappeared.
There will always be a chance for the troubling strangeness [das Unheimliche] of the event, as against the troubling monotony of the global order.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“We do not have to renounce what we have; we have to forsake what we do not have. - Shree Shambav.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.
Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.
Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, before she ever saw him, and the adventures and stresses that her body has undergone, the scars of trauma, the changes of childbirth, her distinguishing characteristics, the light is her expression. The number of men who already see in this way is far greater than the arbiters of mass culture would lead us to believe, since the story they need to tell ends with the opposite moral.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
“We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.”
Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built
“We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.”
“We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.”
Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“We do not have weapons of mass destruction.”
“We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)
“We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.”
“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.”
“We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.”
“We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)”
“We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.”
“We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.”
Source: The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Timeless Story of the Life of Jesus Christ
“We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.”
“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.”
Source: Sodom and Gomorrah
“We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.”
Source: The Tragedy of American Compassion
“We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.”
Source: Two Lucky People: Memoirs
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”
“We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?”
“We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy”
“We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.”
“We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.”
“We do not invite God to our projects but rather we are invitees to God's projects; He actually owns the project and gives us the favor to work with Him. So we better straighten our attitude towards work and ministry, and help us sleep at night peacefully!”
“We do not judge great art. It judges us.”
“We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.”
“We do not judge the people we love.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.”
“We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.”
“We do not just go through life blindly,we create our own journey.
Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become.”
Source: Finding Your Wings: Unleashing Your Creative Powers