W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now!”
“We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.”
Source: Between The Tides
“We have to know what is Buddhadharma and what is not Buddhadharma. It needn't go on forever. You don't have to spend 18 years at it. But still, a basic and uncompromised understanding of Buddhist principles is important. Very basic: the three signs of being, the four noble rruths, karma, and so on.”
“We have to know who we are and know what we believe.”
“We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.”
“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”
Source: A Rosario Castellanos Reader
“We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.”
“We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.”
“We have to learn everything we do.”
Source: The subtle knife
“We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll be far more accurate than just opinions.”
“We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.”
“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”
“We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.”
“We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.”
“We have to learn how to stop being afraid of people who are different than us, who are supposedly our enemies. We are taught that our enemies are there, not that people want to live in peace. They don't want to fight. They just want to live and enjoy life and accomplish things.”
“We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all the great traditions dating back into history. When you get inside yourself - and you really find that deep inner peace that's rooted in love - then you can't live a life that we see being manifested in the large parts of the world right now.”
“We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.”
“We have to learn to appreciate the good qualities in our enemies”
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”
Source: Rainbow Drive
“We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came to the conclusion that they are neither friend nor foe, but study our planet and civilization from a mainly scientific perspective. They are as curious to learn more about us, as we would love to study other human and humanoid civilizations.”
“We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.”
“We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.”
“We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.”
“We have to learn to hear on every level at once if we are really to become whole. The problem is that most of us are deaf in at least one ear.
We have to learn to listen to Scripture. And we have to learn to listen to life around us.”
“We have to learn to live with uncertainty.”
Source: Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions
“We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.”
“We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.”
Source: Wise Up
“We have to learn to manage the turmoil created by our own thoughts. This can be done by overcoming mental disturbances and distractions, resorting to positive self affirmations and meditation and focusing on all that is good around us.”
Source: Being in Peace
“We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.”
Source: Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)
“We have to learn to see with new eyes, hear with new ears, and find new ways to trust other people's words when they tell us and show us how we're hurting them. Because doing the right thing sometimes means putting the pain of others before our own, especially if we are part of creating it.”
Source: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
“We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.”
“We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.”
“We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snapped”
“We have to lend our voice to Christ by speaking on His behalf.”
“We have to let go of fears of things we can't do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positives.”
“We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.”
“We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.”
“We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.”
“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
“We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.”
“we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.”
“We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries.”
“We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“We have to live collectively again, redefining contemporary political philosophy and revolutionary art. Perhaps the creative teams of friends, the affinity groups, the occupied parks, the squats and the social centers can become points for bringing alive all those dreams we lost in the selfishness of our small, insignificant, individual illusions. We may have to fight against many fears, traps, deeply rooted lies, psychological complexes, and insecurities. And then we will link our daily lives with the most magical secret desires to transform the streets of Metropolis in precious moments of freedom and happiness.”
Source: We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008
“we have to live everything –
the good and the bad”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.”
Source: It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle
“We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.”
Source: Cawdor, a Long Poem: Medea, After Euripides
“We have to live on our own terms, not disappearing into someone else’s expectations for us.”
Source: Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility