W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
“We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.”
“We live on the cusp of death
Thinking it won't be us”
“We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.”
“We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.”
“We live on the future: "tomorrow," "later on," "when you have made your way," "you will understand when you are old enough"....Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he situates himself in relation to time. He takes his place in it. He admits that he stands at a certain point on a curve that he acknowledges having to travel to its end. He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“We live on the leash of our senses.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.”
“We live on the scattered rocks of a large planet that burst out of emotions. Therefore, it is normal to experience pain and stress, it's how life is completed.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Clouds
“We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world”
“We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.”
Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
“We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.”
Source: Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal
“We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“We live only for the hope of love.”
“We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.”
“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.”
Source: A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
“WE LIVE OUR ENTIRE LIVES TO EARN POSITIVITY WHICH HELPS US WALK THE LAST BRIDGE.
The money you earn will ward off or delay the ill effects of your doings. The reality starts when you stop earning. Your entire being becomes yourself once again. We live our entire lives to earn positivity which helps us walk the last bridge.”
“we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.”
“We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“We live our lives based on who we think we are.”
Source: The Power of Character in Leadership: How Values, Morals, Ethics, and Principles Affect Leaders
“We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.”
“We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.”
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.”
Source: The Hours
“We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.”
“We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.”
“We live our lives searching for a sense of purpose, meaning, and something that we can be proud of, but even when we find it, we often feel lost, confused, and unfulfilled.
The search was never based on your purpose or your goal but rather on your beliefs. How you view yourself and your self-worth determines your thriving lifestyle. Every successful person, leader and champion accomplished something greater within themselves when they found their worth in their actions and journey.”
Source: Raise the Bar: To live a life of Excellence in Health, Wealth, Relationship and Spirituality
“We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.”
“We live out of the overflow of the heart.”
Source: Exalting Jesus in 1 & 2 Kings
“We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.”
“We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.”
Source: The Druid of Shannara
“We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“we live so loudly that if our lives / become history it will be written in bold”
Source: living proof: poems and prose
“We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.”
Source: The Essential Galbraith
“We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.”
Source: Reena and Other Stories
“We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.”
Source: Homo Faber
“We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.”
Source: Your Power In The Holy Spirit
“We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“We live the given life, and not the planned.”
Source: This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems
“We live the stories we tell; the stories we don't tell live us.”
Source: Firebird
“We live, therefore, between Easter and the consummation, following Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and commissioned to be for the world what he was for Israel, bringing God's redemptive reshaping to our world.
Christians have always found it difficult to understand and articulate this, and have regularly distorted the picture in one direction or the other.
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When God does what God intends to do, this will be an act of fresh grace, of radical newness. At one level it will be quite unexpected, like a surprise party with guests we never thought we would meet and delicious food we never thought we would taste. But at the same time there will be a rightness about it, a rich continuity with what has gone before so that in the midst of our surprise and delight we will say, 'Of course! This is how it had to be, even though we'd never imagined it.”
Source: The Challenge of Easter
“We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?”
“We live thinking that we are scared of dying and avoiding it at all costs. Still, we try to escape from the present moment. This shows that what we are actually afraid of is living and failing at it.”
Source: Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life
“We live thinking we will never die, We die thinking we have never lived”
“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.”
“We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.”
Source: Aquarium
“We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself.”
Source: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past
“We live through sound and light—through our technologies.”
Source: Dora: A Headcase
“We live times in witch as a psychotherapist is required patience more then ever...”