W Quotes
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“We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.”
“We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.”
“We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.”
Source: The Will Rogers book
“We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.”
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.”
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.”
“We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.”
“We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.”
“We may even conclude it to be an evidence of strength, rather than of weakness, that the Scots language and the Scottish literature did not maintain a separate existence. Scottish, throwing in its luck with English, has not only much greater chance of survival, but contributes important elements of strength to complete the English...”
“We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.”
“We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical needs. All is vibration, with nothing vibrating across no distance whatsoever. All is music. A universe, a world, is just one long difficult song. The difference between worlds is the difference between songs.”
“We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.”
Source: Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50
“We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.”
“We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.”
“We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!”
Source: In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion
“We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.”
“We may face many defeats and adversities in life. But we can never ever give up on our dreams and goals in life. And finally one day victory will be ours!”
“We may faced many hardships without a lose hope.”
“We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“We may faint and we may sink
Feel the pain and near the brink
But the dark begins to shrink
When you find the one who knows”
“We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.”
Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner
“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation."
(Defy the Space That Separates, The Nation, October 7, 1996)”
“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.”
“WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'T
We may feel the need to change employment, but we don’t.
We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don’t.
We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don’t
We may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don’t.
We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don’t.
We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don’t.
(This list could likely go on for eternity.)
The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.
Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we’ll still go on living.
...But at what cost?”
“We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.”
“We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.”
Source: Self-Analysis
“We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards. Or why your employer hired you in the first place.”
Source: The Emperor's Soul
“We may feel that we do not receive an adequate level of comfort when we are struggling, or we may feel that no one around us understands what we are going through. Know that you are not alone.”
“We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.”
“We may feel the world is slipping out of our hands and recognize that the core of our conceived blueprint is escaping us. Let us challenge, then, a point of resilience and get out of the weeds, clear our mind and figure out "who is who" in our lives, and gauge what is valuable in our mind. ("The dirty bike")”
“We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.”
“We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.”
Source: Delicacy
“We may finally summarize the emotional dilemma of the schizoid thus: he feels a deep dread of entering into a real personal relationship, i.e. one into which genuine feeling enters, because, though his need for a love-object is so great, he can only sustain a relationship at a deep emotional level on the basis of infantile and absolute dependence. To the love-hungry schizoid faced internally with an exciting but deserting object all relationships are felt to be 'swallowing-up things' which trap and imprison and destroy. If your hate is destructive you are still free to love because you can find someone else to hate. But if you feel your love is destructive the situation is terrifying. You are always impelled into a relationship by your needs and at once driven out again by the fear either of exhausting your love-object by the demands you want to make or else losing your own individuality by over-dependence and identification. This 'in and out' oscillation is the typical schizoid behaviour, and to escape from it into detachment and loss of feeling is the typical schizoid state.
The schizoid feels faced with utter loss, and the destruction of both ego and object, whether in a relationship or out of it. In a relationship, identification involves loss of the ego, and incorporation involves a hungry devouring and losing of the object. In breaking away to independence, the object is destroyed as you fight a way out to freedom, or lost by separation, and the ego is destroyed or emptied by the loss of the object with whom it is identified. The only real solution is the dissolving of identification and the maturing of the personality, the differentiation of ego and object, and the growth of a capacity for cooperative independence and mutuality, i.e. psychic rebirth and development of a real ego.”
Source: Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self
“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.”
Source: First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There
“We may find ourselves in a role similar to that of a gardener as we cultivate a space in which healing can naturally unfold.
In terms of neurobiology, this stance encourages us to lean into the reassuring awareness that our systems already contain seeds awaiting our attention.
For some examples, we humans are always seeking the warmest possible attachments we can imagine (Cozolino, Siegel), our brains are continuously yearning for the arrival of a co-organizing other (Badenoch, Cozolino, Schore), emotional regulation flows naturally from being in the presence of someone we trust (Beckes & Coan) and even our nervous systems have a preference for the social engagement circuitry that sustains connection (Porges).
With this kind of support from the biology inherent in both practitioner and patient, our bodies may begin to open into a welcoming state as others come towards us, with a sense of partnership being established rather than someone doing something to us.
However this also means letting go of the potential certainty that comes from feeling we are in charge.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“We may find that the words we are naturally drawn toward when we speak to others or ourselves have a great deal to say about our ability to be present with one another.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?”
“We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.”
“We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.”
Source: The anatomy and physiology of capillaries
“We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.”
“We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.”
“We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.”
“We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.”
“We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.”
“We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.”
“We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.”
“We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.”
“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”
Source: The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance