W Quotes
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“We mistakenly think that by putting ourselves first, we’ll finally get what we want. In fact, true happiness comes not from thinking more of ourselves, but rather from thinking less of ourselves—from seeing the truly small role we play in something much bigger, much more important than our individual needs.”
Source: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.”
Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
“We misunderstand the messages behind some of our most favourite songs.”
“We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.”
“We mock that which we don't understand, and then we get to experience it ourselves.”
Source: In a Moment (Lindy Gordon)
“We mock the things we are to be.”
“We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.”
“We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.”
“We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.”
Source: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking
“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue--only we've all been issued the wrong librettos. For a text, we're given the Bible. Or the Talmud or the Koran. We're given Time magazine, and Reader's Digest, daily papers, and the six o'clock news; we're given schoolbooks, sitcoms, and revisionist histories; we're given psychological counseling, cults, workshops, advertisements, sales pitches, and authoritative pronouncements by pundits, sold-out scientists, political activists, and heads of state. Unfortunately, none of these translations bears more than a faint resemblance to what is transpiring in the true theater of existence, and most of them are dangerously misleading. We're attempting to comprehend the spiraling intricacies of a magnificently complex tragicomedy with librettos that describe the barrom melodramas or kindergarten skits. And when's the last time you heard anybody bitch about it to the management?”
Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.”
“We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.”
Source: Laocoön: Nathan the Wise ; Minna von Barnhelm
“We moeten afscheid nemen zoveel mogelijk beperken in ons leven. Anders neem je het leven en het toeval niet serieus.”
Source: Als de winter voorbij is
“We moeten de immigratiestromen omkeren want in de toekomst zullen we door een immigratie-vloedgolf overrompeld worden niet enkel op sociaal en economisch maar ook op cultureel en religieus vlak!”
“We moeten het Congolese volk helpen bij het opbouwen van een sterke en levensvatbare economie, een economie die gebaseerd is op de beste praktijken van het moderne tijdperk.”
“We moeten oog in oog staan met onze monsters, de wolven temmen, in de doolhoven van onze ziel de Minotaurus zoeken en doden, want als we dat niet doen, doden ze ons.”
Source: Jij zegt het
“We moeten samenwerken met andere landen om de uitdagingen van de moderne tijd aan te pakken. We moeten onze grenzen openstellen voor handel en investeringen, en we moeten actief deelnemen aan internationale organisaties en initiatieven.”
“We mold our sons into statues of silence, then rage at the stone when it fails to sing.”
“We momentarily bask in the glory of an accomplished goal and reap the associated changes in our lives as a result of achievement.”
“We monads cannot get over the fact that we can’t fully know one another. Well survival each other until the cows come home and pretend it’s for marketing or science or spy craft. But really all this data is just a burnt offering to a god who withdrew long ago, leaving us the mute earth and also the vestiges of good and evil. And I guess we’re free to care about, or even date, these vestiges, if we so choose.”
Source: Cosmogony: Stories
“We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.”
Source: Neuromancer
“We monsters are necessary to nature also.”
“We moralize among ruins.”
Source: Works
“We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.”
Source: Robert Browning
“We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.”
“We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.”
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“We most commonly deceive our partners into thinking that we are not cheating on them by introducing them to our families, by sharing photos of them via social media, and/or by marrying them.”
“We most commonly waste food by swallowing prematurely.”
“We most fondly remember those who truly see us for who we are. Their affirmation of our true being are often etched in our memory as life-changing moments. Imagine the world we might live in if more of us aimed to be that memorable.”
“We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.”
“We mostly envision infinity as something beyond our reach and in outer space. However, if it existed, infinity would have to expand on a micro-level within something we may imagine as the inner space. If we say it this way, infinity cannot be only outside; it must also be “inside” with no end to the material universe anywhere in outer space and on its micro-level. It also means that, if we simplify the idea, the tiniest particles, quarks, “strings,” or waves, would be larger, compared to what they contain within themselves, than the visible Universe in comparison to us.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.”
Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill
“We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.”
“We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“We mothers have a wonderfully precious and truly powerful role to play in the future self-images of our daughters. The truth is, the most effective way to inculcate in our daughters a fighting chance at life-long self-love and empowerment is not in the books we read to them, or the workshops we send them to, or the media we do or do not expose them to, or even the things we tell them, rather it is in the reflection of self-love and empowerment they see in us, their mothers. The model of our own empowerment gives our daughters permission to be powerful. Of course, culture and societal norms mold our view of ourselves as women, but the beliefs and behaviors of our mothers are far more influential.”
Source: The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
“We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.”
“We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.”
Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme
“We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.”
“We mourn lives lost. Including our own.”
Source: All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops - which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.”
“We mourn the heavy losses, the endings that leave forever holes. But what about the unspoken closings, the ones that leave a silent sigh, unnoticed by the world? The bench that held our deepest secrets now sits empty for ages. Those are the losses that write quiet elegies in the breeze.”
“We mourn the heavy losses, the endings that leave forever holes. But what about unspoken closings, the ones that leave a silent sigh, unnoticed by the world? The bench that held our deepest secrets now sits empty for ages; the losses that write quiet elegies in the breeze. They are the ones that cause whispers of the hearts.”
“We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.”
“We mourn what has been lost, and tomorrow, we rise.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.”
“We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.”