W Quotes
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“We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.”
“We must accept our current circumstances before we can change them.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.”
“We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.”
“We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, ‘what was the aim of my life,’ ‘what did I accomplish,’ ‘what did I not accomplish,’ ‘what would I alter if I could live my life all over again’? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.”
“We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.”
“We must acknowledge and take responsibility for the conflicts we have helped to create, and act to create real change. That, after all, is the true hallmark of democracy--a commitment to justice, honest self-appraisal, and action--even when it means challenging ourselves and the political institutions we hold most dear.”
“We must acknowledge that all we have are, at times very differing, interpretations of what Jesus was all about-and these interpretations, as they are collected in the New Testament, have been written in particular situations by men, none of whom questioned the existing patriarchal structure of their societies or of their communities. While some Christ-believing women did challenge certain male-dominated aspects of their church gatherings (see 1 Cor 14:33b-36) it is quite unlikely that they questioned the patriarchal structure of their society, community, and church on a fundamental level. ~ Werner Kahl in Reading Other-Wise, p. 151”
Source: Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities
“We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.”
“We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.”
“We must acknowledge that we exist as a culmination of all of our prior days.”
“We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.”
“We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.”
“We must acknowledge the utter fragility of what holds our lives together—our institutions, our shared labor, our love, our mourning—and yet keep faith with what offers no final guarantee. This is the double movement of secular faith. (377)”
Source: This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
“We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.”
“We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around the world have no access to drinking water.”
“We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God's plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.”
“We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.”
Source: The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters
“We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.”
“We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.”
“We must act now to prevent further spread of EBOLA VIRUS. If we do not act collectively, EBOLA VIRUS will wipe all whole populations and generations into their grave. The call to action is now.”
“We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.”
“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
“We must act then as if we were alone. If that were so, would we build superb houses, etc.? We should unhesitatingly look for the truth. And, if we refuse, it shows that we have a higher regard for men’s esteem than for pursuing the truth.”
Source: Pensées
“We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.”
“We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow”
“We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”
“We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.”
“We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.”
“We must actively consider our thoughts and feelings in the present moment to ensure we are guiding ourselves based upon our most up-to-date intuitions.”
“We must actively work to fend off frivolous distractions and activities that will not cultivate a state of growth and bliss.”
“we must adapt our self-concept to become someone who can handle, if not thrive, in the situation we are in.”
Source: The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“We must adjust our emotive outlook before drowning in bitterness and choking on despair. We must periodically weed out pangs of disenchantment and scour disillusionment from our hearts in order to console and replenish the depleted resolve of our spirit. Finding ourselves crippled by physical injury, weakened by illness, or left stranded in a vulnerable emotional condition brought on by grief, disappointment, and other physiological or psychological crisis, we must each examine our values and update our mythological mental maps in order to generate a source of stirred concentrate steeling a rejuvenated march onward. Perhaps our sources of revitalizing energy will stem from gaining a new perspective on ancient challenges, by establishing new hopes and dreams, or by delving a lofty purpose behind our efforts. Alternatively, perhaps we only develop the resolve to resume our scrupulous assault on the important issues of life by orchestrating a fundamental transformation of the self, a complete restructuring of our values and goals.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We must adjust our plans to succeed in light of the changes that have occurred.”
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
Source: The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People
“We must admit that by approving multiculturalism in its current, misguided form, we are paving the road to White, Black, Indian and Asian genocide faster than the Sixth Mass Extinction.”
Source: We Are One
“We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.”
“We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word of God into people's heads, then the Spirit of God will apply it to their hearts. That assumption is aweful, not because the Spirit never does what the assumption supposes, but because it excused pastors and leaders from the responsibility to tangle with people's lives. Many remain safely hidden behind pulpits, hopelessly out of touch with the struggles of their congregations, proclaiming the Scriptures with a pompous accuracy that touches no one. Pulpits should provide bridges, not barriers, to life-changing relationships.”
Source: Inside Out
“We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.”
“We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.”
“We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.”
“We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970
“We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.”
“We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.”
“We must aim towards truth, surely, but not at the expense of our humanity.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.”