W Quotes
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“We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.”
“We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And speak of it.”
Source: Minister Without Portfolio
“We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.”
“We live inside our parents' backstory.”
“We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.”
“We live kind of society where people scold you for wearing crop clothes. But for their own pleasure and entertainment this society tears your clothes apart to see your naked body. Even the society forces you to strip down your clothes for their hidden satisfaction. But in front of all they just say you are so nasty.”
“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”
Source: Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas
“We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something.”
“We live life for Love, Success, Freedom, Intimacy, Security, Adventure, Power, Passions, Comfort and Health as emotional states and we Google, Linked, Liked, Shared & Tweeted most of all of the emotional states throughout our life. Why? Because they give, gave and given pleasure and meaning to our life.’ – Dr V V Rao”
“We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.”
“We live life not only for ourselves but for others.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”
“We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.”
“We Live like enemies why we are friends, We live like lions, why we are humans, why letting evil take away our mind, why letting our soul be corrupt by money, why letting everyone hate you while you are kind. It's not late to use the humanity god gave you, is not late to open your eyes and see hope.”
“We live like Heaven already, a little bit of Heaven right here and now! What could we have more?-Only more of the same and better!”
“We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“We live liturgically, telling our sacred Story in worship and song. We fast and we feast. We marry and give our children in marriage, and though in exile, we work for the peace of the city. We welcome our newborns and bury our dead. We read the Bible and we tell our children about the saints. And we also tell them in the orchard and by the fireside about Odysseus, Achilles, and Aeneas, of Dante and Don Quixote, and Frodo and Gandalf and all the tales that bear what it means to be men and women of the West.
We work, we pray, we confess our sins, we show mercy, we welcome the stranger, and we keep the commandments. When we suffer, especially for Christ's sake, we give thanks, because that is what Christians do. Who knows what God, in turn, will do with our faithfulness? It is not for us to say. Our command is, in the words of the Christian poet W.H. Auden, to "stagger onward rejoicing”
Source: The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
“We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.”
“We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves”
“We live merely on the crust or rind of things.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We live most of our lives in segregation with people of our same level. We are in relationships with people around our age, in school with people of our education level, at work with people of our same pay rate, and in neighborhoods with people living the same as us. We are so comfortable with being around ourselves that when someone walks in the room of a greater level we are reminded of the insecurities in ourselves. It’s like love. Things that we think are gone until we are around a certain person again. The public internet is one of our only unsegregated places. This causes us to be digitally jealous of lives that are real and made up. I can only imagine if billionaires really showed their lives. Where would our jealousy be then? We’ll only find happiness when we find it within ourselves. Jealousy is a never ending game.”
Source: True Blue
“We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.”
“We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“We live not by the money we possess but by the goodness of the Creator.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.”
“We live not for ourselves… it’s what my father always said to justify the sacrifices he had to make, like not spending enough time with me and Mom… or not marrying the woman he loved. But I never knew they had a child together.”
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The dark outlines of the trees, the patches of star-filled sky, Clarke’s stunned expression, the nervous face of the kid Bellamy had once thought he hated, but now seemed to be… something else entirely. “So that makes you…”
“Your half brother.” Wells let the final word hang in the air, as if giving both of them time to examine the shape of it before they claimed it for their own. “I guess you and Octavia aren’t the only siblings in the Colony anymore.”
A laugh escaped from Bellamy’s lips before he had time to stop it. “Half brothers,” he repeated. “This is insane.” He shook his head, and with a grin, extended his arm and reached for Wells’s hand. “Brothers.”
Source: Day 21
“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”
“We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.”
Source: Poems
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“We live not to ourselves, our work is life.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air”
“We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.”
“We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.”
“We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.”
“We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.”
“We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.”
“We live on a global landscape of which its strings are coming loose and floating out of the tapestry to realign themselves elsewhere. Who knows what the new tapestry is going to look like? The only way to survive this changing landscape, is by letting go to float alongside the transient threads of reality, and like those strings, allowing ourselves to realign wherever we may land. I call it the "re-stringing". There's going to be nothing and nowhere left for you, if you hold onto old tapestries that are now evaporating and transforming into what is new and unknown.”
“We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.”
“We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.”
“We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
“We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.”
“We live on a spinning rock suspended in darkness, which evolves around a dying star. Our spinning rock was once ruled and owned by gigantic reptiles, all over! In sea, land, and air, gigantic reptiles roamed! Then a smaller rock fell from the sky and made a hole in the ground, so big that all the giant reptiles died! We live on a spinning rock we got from dragons flying through the air, and on this rock we kill each other over things like religion and money! And on this rock we make friends, we fall in love, we work hard to earn papers so we can buy things. On this rock we have dreams at night that remind us of beautiful places we have never been to, beautiful wonders we have never imagined before... we write stories and we make books, we try to travel to other rocks around us, we wonder if anyone else is out there. Our planet, and our existence as a human species, is bizarre! Our reality is bizarre! What we think is normal, when spelled out, is not normal at all. It's only normal because we are familiar with it. We are residents of a universe that is expanding at a rate of more than 5 billion meters per every few seconds, forming new realities and new substances with each expansion! We will never become familiar with even the very tip of what actually is! So why are any of us afraid of the possibilities of what could be? Why does this frighten us, why does this scare us? When we actually never know anything at all!”
“We live on a world where if you run straight away, without turning, you return to your point of origin. So much energy can be saved and time, by dealing with the point, at its origin, that would make us run.”
Source: The Frowny Face Cow
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”
“We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.”
“We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.”