W Quotes
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“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”
“We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“We grow immensely through examination of our emotions and provide ourselves with opportunities for nuanced experiences.”
“We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, 'I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another.' In therapy we say, 'Let's edit your story.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that the person's voice saying, 'I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another.' In therapy we say, 'Let's edit your story.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”
“We grow in holiness in the honing of our specific vocation. We can't be holy in the abstract. Instead we become a holy blacksmith or a holy mother or a holy physician or a holy systems analyst. We seek God in and through our particular vocation and place in life.
Each kind of work is therefore its own kind of craft that must be developed over time, both for our own sanctification and for the good of the community. As we seek to do our work well and hone our craft, we are developed and honed in our work. Our task is not to somehow inject God into our work but to join God in the work he is already doing in and through our vocational lives. Therefore, holiness itself is something like a craft—not an abstract state to which we ascend but an earthy wisdom and love that is part and parcel of how we spend our day.”
Source: Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“We grow in love. We do not grow in hatred. The river flows only in the melting.”
“We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.”
Source: Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
“We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“We grow into new versions of ourselves when we eliminate the fear within. Some never travel because of fear. Some die with untold stories because of fear. Some remain imprisoned in their minds because of fear. Let the fear go.”
“We grow into that which we admire.”
“We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.”
Source: Songs of Summer
“We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”
“We grow old judging others
And ourselves
Until life humbles us
And makes scared children of us
Longing to hold another’s hand
To hear their kind words
And witness their kind deeds
done on our behalf.
But like children,
We sabotage everything
For nothing satisfies us
Until life crumbles us
And we are no more.”
“We grow old more through indolence, than through age.”
“We grow old not by the number of our years, but by not numbering our years - not living our dreams, not enjoying the everyday life”
“We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.”
Source: Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews
“We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.”
“We grow our own source revenue base, we put ourselves into a stronger financial position and so this budget is unashamedly going to be about focusing on ensuring that we continue to grow our economy and create jobs.”
“We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize
aspects of our nature that make us different from the family
and culture in which we have been raised.”
Source: Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
“We grow small trying to be great.”
“We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed - with energy and engagement - and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.”
“We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.”
“We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.”
“We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.”
Source: Toward a Deeper Meditation
“We grow too old to lose old friends.”
“We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.”
“We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.”
“We grow up being told to do this and told to do that because it's the 'right' thing to do.
If we did something obscure, it'd be 'wrong'.
We have been taught to choose the respectable, socially acceptable path that everyone else walks down.
What if we were told to do what feels right and were not afraid to perceive the world in an authentic light.
We are told how to think and what to think, but not how to feel.
We don't always need logic, we need to feel.”
Source: Why Don't You? Thoughts Worth Thinking
“We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.”
“We grow up but we never grow old because we are tied to the beautiful memories of our past, especially our childhood.
Never loose the child in you.
For me, having a heart of a child is still beautiful.
It makes me feel alive.”
“We grow up expecting our parents to live forever until, one day, they’re suddenly gone.”
Source: Lock Every Door
“We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”
“We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.”
“We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making themselves proud and happy) - and that’s unfortunately the belief system in most cultures.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“We grow up in a world where satisfying our cravings seems to be the number one objective, every advertisement on television and the newspaper calls for one craving or another to be dealt with. When it comes to sex we are bombarded every which way, so much so, that we think solving our cravings is the only way and the right way.”
Source: Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.”
“We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did—a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.”
“We grow up to believe that we are supposed to somehow "become" who we are meant to be through the trial-by-fire that is life here on planet Earth.
Reality is...there's no "becoming".
It's actually all an "un-becoming", only to reunite with who you were born to be in the first place before society told you otherwise.”
“We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or even the place we will live ~ only to age and realise none of it is what you expected & reality is a little disheartening, when you've reached that realisation; you have learnt the gift of all, any new beginning can start now and if you want anything bad enough you'll find the courage to pursue it with all you have. The past doesn't have to be the future, stop making it so.”
“We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.”
“We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.”
“We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.”