W Quotes
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“We often assume the religious are superstitious, but maybe they are performance artists instead, embodying ideas which wander namelessly—dangerously—through the psyche.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.”
“We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.”
Source: All for Jesus: A Devotional
“We often behave as though Jesus is only interested in saving and loving a romanticized version of ourselves, or an idealized version of our mess of a world, and so we offer to him a version of our best selves. With our Sunday school shoes on, we sing songs about kings and drummers at his birth, perhaps so we can escape the Herod in ourselves and in the world around us. But we've lost the plot if we use religion as the place where we escape from difficult realities instead of as the place where those difficult realities are given meaning.”
Source: Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
“We often betray our arrogance or immaturity by asserting that we will never do something bad that we are capable of doing.”
“We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.”
“We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.”
“We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.”
“We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.”
“We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.”
“We often build our lives in a way that shuts out freedom.”
Source: Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
“We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.”
Source: Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms
“We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.”
“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.”
Source: Belonging: A Culture of Place
“We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal.”
“We often confuse freedom with the ability to do whatever we want, thus becoming slaves to discipline and illusion.”
“We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if necessary, has in the United States itself resulted in 400 of the richest people owning wealth equivalent [to that] of half of the population.”
“We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“We often confuse what we wish for with what is.”
“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“We often correlate the “bad or unwanted” feelings we have with what we believe to be the truth, but our feelings don’t always tell the full picture. If we are not careful, we will start to let these false narratives become our life
mottos. So what is the truth? God does care, and just because we are unable to see clearly why he chooses to love us a certain way in this
exact moment doesn’t mean he doesn’t care.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.”
“We often despise what is most useful to us.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or post-conflict situation, we end up with intractable refugee camps that end up staying for decades.”
“We often discuss issues such as pollution, poverty, or corruption from a global perspective; yet we fail to consider them locally—in our city, neighborhood, or even family. We’re thus trained to be irresponsible: the more we think and talk about problems we can’t control—the more virtuous we feel but—the more we neglect the problems which are in our control.”
“We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.”
“We often displace our sense of happiness
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“We often do, in the right way, something that is wrong.”
“We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.”
“We often do not believe in what we feel and therefore we ask for evidence from others that what we feel is right. We never even truly believe that true love exists and their eyes never turn away from our face.”
Source: Turquoise
“We often do not experience reality directly as it is, but rather we impose our own mental concepts and illusions onto reality, and then react to our own projections as if they were true.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.”
Source: Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays
“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”
“We often do not see what we do not expect to see.”
Source: Great Ideas in Physics
“We often do or speak, not because of necessity, but because of insecurity.”
“We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.”
“We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.”
“We often don’t even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way.”
Source: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“We often don’t have the patience to wait. We want some control over the outcome. We want to know the outcome. We believe deeply that if we could just know the outcome we will make it through. We treat God like a vending machine with an expected outcome after we put our something in. When we do this our relationship with God is transactional.”
Source: Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.”
“We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.”
“We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.”
“We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.”
“We often don’t realize that where God puts us is the very place we need to be to receive what He wants to give us.”
“We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”
“We often dwell on the past or imagine the future, but what truly matters is what we are experiencing right now. Everything else has already passed.”
“We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.”
“We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.”
“We often exist in no man’s land; between the extremities of what we want to be and what we have become.”