W Quotes
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“We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.”
“We may give up for lost the reader who always wants to know exactly what Sterne thinks about a matter, and whether he be making a serious or a smiling face (for he can do both with one wrinkling of his features; he can be and even wishes to be right and wrong at the same moment, to interweave profundity and farce).”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.”
“We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.”
“We may have a lot of romantic ideas about Nature, but it has both a heavy and light aspect. Nature, as our primal ancestor and source of life, has the power to devour, destroy, and even abort us. We must learn to discern when we are approaching Nature with arrogance or the need to dominate, even if these attitudes lie beneath the surface.”
Source: Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar’s Call
“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”
“We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.”
“We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
“We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.”
“We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.”
“We may have been deceived, forsaken and abandon, lead only to be broken beyond repair but not broken forever.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“We may have been
flawless then—
but look at us now.
Look how we shine.
Look at the map we've
made in these fractures—
in all the places where
the world got its hands
on us.”
Source: But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings
“We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles”
Source: Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla
“We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.”
“We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.”
“We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.”
Source: Redburn: Works of Herman Melville Volume Four
“We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.”
“We may have days where we encounter emotional struggles that weigh us down and make it difficult to get through the day. Remain resilient.”
“We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.”
“We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion.But we must not hate each other. We are one human family.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
“We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!”
Source: From Crack to Christ: A Witness
“We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.”
Source: Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life
“We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!”
“We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.”
“We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.”
Source: The Air-line to Liberty: A Prospectus for All Nations
“We may have hobbies that spur a great deal of passion, where we toil hours on end to obtain a sense of perfection.”
“We may have left the jungle, but the jungle still lives in us.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.”
“We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.”
“We may have more control, but my point is that, strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a state company. I think that this is an obvious fact, as a foreign investor has a 19.7 percent stake in it.”
“We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and the Savior's doctrine of forgiveness are inseparably connected: The essence of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.”
“We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?”
Source: All Religions are True
“We may have pain, but not as great as His name.”
“We may have plenty of pompous ideologies and schools of thought, but if we don't have an everyday concern for our society, then they are all meaningless.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.”
Source: Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)
“We may have slammed shut the metaphorical door on each other but we hadn’t locked it.”
Source: Lonely Hearts Day
“We may have suffered a lot because of our attachment to those things, but we don’t have the courage to release them; it doesn’t feel safe to do so. But it may be that we continue to suffer because of our attachment to those things. It may be a person, a material object, or a position in society, anything. We think that without that person or thing we will not be safe, and that is why we’re caught by it.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be”
“we may have
these fragile hearts,
and when we crumble,
ever do we crumble,
but unlike those who break us…
we heal
we grow
we become full
we rise
we thrive
and we fly”
“We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.”
“We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.”
“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.”
“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.”
“We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.”
Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes
“We may incur the same mistakes time and time again, seemingly lacking the control to stop history from repeating itself.”
“We may indeed die here, that's true. But we will all die anyway-is there any denying that? When you think of all the possible ways you might go, this is as fine a place as any, isn't it? I mean, to end one's life surrounded by friends, in a comfortable, dry room with plenty to read... that doesn't sound too awful, does it?"
"What is the advantage of fear, or the benefit of regret, or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, 'Life is only precious if you wish it to be.' I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal-do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?" The monk looked around, but no one answered him. "If Maribor wishes for me to die, who am I to argue? After all, it is he who gave me life to begin with. Until he decides I am done, each day is a gift granted to me, and it would be wasted if spent poorly. Besides, for me, I've learned that the last bite is often the sweetest.”
Source: Percepliquis