W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy
“We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.”
“We learn that the program won’t work when we try to adapt it to our life. We must learn to adapt our life to the program.”
Source: Narcotics Anonymous
“We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black people, and the colonization of Mexicans?”
Source: You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
“We learn that there are in creation, Beings - perhaps very numerous - both good and evil.”
“We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.”
“We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book
“We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.”
Source: Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.”
“We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.”
“We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.”
“We learn the world to better learn ourselves. And the better we know ourselves, the more we know the world.”
“We learn things when we read and we travel to many places...No trip will be more meaningful, more magical, more exciting than the trip you take alone with a book and your imagination.”
Source: The Weight of Salt
“We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.”
Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques
“We learn to accept change graciously. 'Who did what to who' is a trifling matter compared with preserving a stable and peaceful mind. In this way, all change will be to our benefit and will be an advancement in our capacity to fulfil our potential. Life will reward us with love, respect, and success. There is never a day when the world is not asking for our caring, courageous love. If we share that love freely and bravely, we will always have love returned to us. The world becomes our home and its inhabitants become our family.”
Source: Love's Longing
“We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring us down and make us miserable.”
“We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.”
“We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.”
“We learn to beat fear by doing.”
“We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person’s uniqueness.”
Source: The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
“We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.”
“We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.”
“We learn to do by doing.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliation- the daily tasks of life with other people. Stability in Christ is always stability in community”
Source: The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture
“we learn to eat before
we walk or speak and it
is hard to change
the building blocks
before they fall.”
Source: Type 2
“We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.”
“We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.”
Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief
“We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.”
“We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.”
“We learn to hear the music only when we realize that time is in a flow and that which has flown will never flow again.”
“We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.”
“We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our warmest feelings whenever other people grace us with the privilege of besetting upon them many acts of kindness. We unleash a germinal of internal tenderness by affectionately doting upon pets and by generously spending time admiring the natural world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination”
“We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.”
Source: A Punctual Paymaster
“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”
Source: Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man
“We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.”
Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
“We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.”
“We learn to rest by practice, by routine, over time. This is true of our bodies, our minds, and our souls, which are always intertwined.”
Source: Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side, and swallowing much grief on the other. We no longer approximate in our behaviour to the mere impulsiveness of the lower animals, but conduct ourselves in every respect like members of a highly civilised society.”
“We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.”
“We learn to treasure words that people call us;
we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss
them aside, so in time they become our dignity.”
“We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.”
“We learn to walk when we’re babies and never forget unless we’re drunk.”
“We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.”
“We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.”
“We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to”