W Quotes
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“We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them-- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.”
“We don't fall in love with someone. We discover love in someone!”
“We don’t find God
in temples and cathedrals.
We don’t find Him
by standing on a
prayer rug or sitting in a pew.
God appears when we
love someone other than ourselves.
And we continue to feel His presence
when we do good for others.
Because God is not found
in mosques and synagogues.
He resides in our
hearts.”
“We don’t fish for talent, we hunt for talent! - Bondburry Recruitment”
“We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.”
Source: Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion
“We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because
they need it--because we need it. I'm sure you felt much better after forgiving your son.”
“We don't fortunately need those we love to be sane (or we would be forever alone). We merely need them to be able in their calmer moments - to admit to their strangeness with a degree of grace and good humour. They would ideally be able to tell us, before they have hurt us too badly, some of what is likely to be most difficult about living close to them. They will warn us about their bad moods after work, their awkwardness around their mother or their tendency to panic at airports. Their confessions won't magically remove every problem, but they will hugely attenuate their impact. We are infinitely more likely to forgive someone who has a good sense of what they need to be forgiven for than someone who maintains their innocence against all odds.”
Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships
“We don’t gain anything by lowering the bar so that everyone can clear it.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“We don't get the best of life everytime.
Out of those, sometimes we have to stay with whatever life gave us and hope for the best.
Because out of those sometimes, many times
Just keeping the hope alive gives us the best of life.”
“We don't get to choose how our lessons are delivered (...). We only get to influence which are the most appropriate lessons we need to learn, based on the choices we make and how we show up.”
Source: The Inside Track: An Inspirational Guide To Conquering Adversity
“We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I do.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“We don't get to choose our family, but we can choose our friends. With courage, we can weed out narcissistic people. We can focus on those who do appreciate us, love us, and treat us with respect.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“We don't get to choose our time. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short. You'd think after all this time, I'd be ready. But look at me. Stretching one moment out into a thousand... just so that I can watch the snow.”
“We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.”
Source: Snowbound
“We don't get to choose the things that happen to us, Starling. Those decisions lie solely in fate," he finally replies, and the weight shatters as quickly as it descended. "What we do get to choose is how we respond to them. Whether we stay the same or let them change us.”
Source: Songbird of the Sorrows
“We don't get to say. Not if we want to save ourselves. We can't question everything. We have to be able to give the help that is asked for. Not what we think is needed. What is asked for. We justify ourselves with a thousand small acts of grace and charity. It's all meaningless. We want to be liked. To be liked. (He is staring out at the sea. He lifts one hand and lets it fall again) God. It goes beyond lacking all conviction. At the very core of despair is the conviction that convictions do not exist. That their reality exists solely in the claims of criminals and lunatics. I was on the beach last night and there was a bright light out to sea. I don't know what it was. A flare. Something. And I thought: What would happen if chaos should come? Would we be worse off? What if this were the sun misrisen at midnight. What if all order were suddenly in abeyance, the skies given over to the access of sudden random moons, everything mindless and migratory. So that all we knew was to be set aside and we found ourselves dwelling in a silent pandemonium. Would we be worse off? Would we be more damned under the transit of constellations unknown to us? What if we suddenly knew nothing? Nothing at all?”
Source: Whales and Men
“We don’t get to take our favourite stuff with us when we die. Just a reminder, it’s all about being kind to others and more often to yourself.”
“We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!”
“We don't give prizes for rhetoric to the best goodbye. To thank each other for a wonderful time; to separate with a smile, or tears; to part with a final kiss or a final word - no one knows what to do.”
Source: Lovely War
“We don't give to get, we get to give”
“We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive from living a wondrous and full life.”
“We don't go on having babies, that's quite apparent. We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it - we're slow learners, we women - we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death.
Ah we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But *they* can't learn at all.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“We don’t grieve things that don’t matter to us. Grieving is just another way of saying, “I care a whole, whole lot about the person I’ve lost, and it’s hard not having them here.” The next time you start to beat yourself up for feeling grief, gently remind yourself that grief is not a sign that something is wrong with you; it’s evidence that you had a strong connection to the person you’ve lost.”
Source: Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“We don’t grow in comfort; we grow against resistance.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“We don’t grow out of fairytales. We grow back into them — when we’re ready to believe again.”
Source: When Stars Remember Your Name: Fairy Tales for Grown-Up Souls
“We don't hate criminals, we only hate failed criminals. In fact, we secretly admire criminals who are rich and successful.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“We don't have a blessing shortage, we have a capacity crisis.”
“We don't have a choice of whom we fall in love with.
We don't have a choice of whom we fall out of love with.
We only have a choice to stay or leave—
it's a set menu at a fixed price.
But, what if we don't like either of our options?”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“We don’t have a Giant Aliens “R” Us or we’d be there.”
Source: Alien Promise
“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”
“We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.”
Source: Fight Club
“We don't have a gun problem; we have a math problem: ZERO GUNS = ZERO GUN-RELATED DEATHS.”
“We don't have a mobile phone. The mobile phone has us.”
“We don’t have a veto against anyone participating in government according to their electoral merit. Kurdistan is big enough for everyone”
“We don't have adoption issues, we have an issue with adoption.”
Source: Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
“We don’t have any other choice but going forward, Princess.”
“We don’t have anything to fear. I don’t know tonight whether I’ll actually get back to Ruleville! But all that they can destroy is the Fannie Lou that you meet tonight. But it’s the Fannie Lou that God hold will keep on living, day after day!”
Source: The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is
“We don't have anything to offer, but we began to realize that we had to offer the very things that have made the physician-patient relationship so hallowed for so many reasons, and that is ourselves, our interest, our presence. It may sound strange to say this, but I think a healing can take place even when the disease is incurable and they go on to die. That's a healing that takes place in both the patient and the physician.”
“We don’t have desires by accident. Good desires are planted in us because we are meant to follow them, explore them, wrestle with them, and have them form us. If we do this and do it in the right way, the result is happiness. If we do anything in the right way, the result is happiness.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“We don't have forever
How could I say it clearer?”
“We don't have long here, children. Our hopes and aspirations may feel limitless, but our days are finite, our experiences fading in the twinkling of an eye. Death is a love note to the living, to regard every day, every breath, as sacred. 'What is your life?' the scriptures ask us. 'You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes' (James 4:14, NIV). The Spirit is ever beckoning us to heed that wisdom, to get on with what we've been put here to do. And whatever that calling looks like, however it may seemingly vary from one person or season to the next, at its core, it is simply this: cherish one another. That is all. That is our purpose in its entirety, to bestow God's care on others.”
Source: Just as I Am
“We don't have much time. The mono travels just as fast toward its point of ending whether Blaine's with us or not."
"You don't really believe he's gone, do you?" Eddie asked. "A slippery pup like him? Come on, get real. He's peeking, I guarantee you."
"I doubt it very much," Roland said, and Susannah decided she agreed with him. For now, at least. "You could hear how excited he was at the idea of riddling again after all these years. And-"
"And he's confident," Susannah said. "Doesn't expect to have much trouble with the likes of us."
"Will he?" Jake asked the gunslinger. "Will he have trouble with us?"
"I don't know," Roland said. "I don't have a Watch Me hidden up my sleeve, if that's what you're asking. It's a straight game ... but at least it's a game I've played before. We've all played it before, at least to some extent. And there's that." He nodded toward the book which Jake had taken back from Oy. "There are forces at work here, big ones, and not all of them are working to keep us away from the Tower."
Susannah heard him, but it was Blaine she was thinking of-Blaine who had gone away and left them alone, like the kid who's been chosen "it" obediently covering his eyes while his playmates hide. And wasn't that what they were? Blaine's playmates? The thought was somehow worse than the image she'd had of trying the escape hatch and having her head torn off.
"So what do we do?" Eddie asked. "You must have an idea, or you never would have sent him away."
"His great intelligence-coupled with his long period of loneliness and forced inactivity-may have combined to make him more human than he knows. That's my hope, anyway. First, we must establish a kind of geography. We must tell, if we can, where he is weak and where he is strong, where he is sure of the game and where not so sure. Riddles are not just about the cleverness of the riddler, never think it. They are also about the blind spots of he who is riddled."
"Does he have blind spots?" Eddie asked.
"If he doesn't," Roland said calmly, "we're going to die on this train.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“We don’t have no say, ‘cause we was an afterthought. He yanked us up out o’ man’s ribs, but He made man out the Earth. He made him out the dirt and the mud and made him out the world, so man is the world. Women…women just a part o’ men.” Elaine snubbed the cigarette out, tapped the dark leather case on the edge of the table and I watched as another slim, white stick slid free.”
Source: History of a Woman
“We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us”
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species.”
“We don’t have the moral right to be nobody”
“We don’t have the power to change reality. However, we do have the power to destroy ourselves in the effort to avoid it.”
“We don’t have the right to forgive people; it is not only about our kindness or gentleness, it is about keeping the justice stable.”
“We don’t have the right to interfere with each other’s freewill. To do so is a sign of lust for control and power. When others and organizations attempt to dictate how we should worship our origins, or believe they are entitled to control us to their expectations, under the guise that it will put us in good favor with the deity of their choice, they are worshipping power and control.”
Source: Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness: Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth
“We don’t have time for all this personal drama.” My eyes flit between Logan, Haydn, and Ax. “And it’s not fair on the others. The atmosphere is horrendous because of what’s going on between us. And I’m so tired of it. All of it.” I take a step back. “I’m not discussing this anymore, with any of you.” I glare at the three boys. “So sort your shit out, and get your act together. Until then,” I say, turning around. “Leave me the hell alone.”
Source: Saven Defiance
“We don't have time to waste. this is why I created Network & Golf. I challenge you to find one woman with nothing to do.”