W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.”
“We often fail to see that there is an invisible wall in a relationship - Cord 10, In Between Us!”
“We often fall short on comforting ourselves. Be gentle with yourself.”
“We often favor feeling right, over being right.”
Source: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
“We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give.
Too much change is required inside, outside.
And we are too small.
But all that is required is that you step into the truth of your life.
And speak it, write it, paint it, dance it.
That you shine your light on your truth, for the world to see.
And as hundreds, then thousands, then millions do this – each sparking the courage of yet more –
Suddenly we have a world alight with truth.”
Source: Burning Woman
“We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.”
“We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.”
“We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”
“We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.”
“We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?”
Source: A Mixture of Madness
“We often find that People who claim virtue are the ones to lack it the most.”
“We often focus on the power of many whenever we think about how to bring change. But whether positive or negative, the power of one has far reaching effects than the power of many.”
“We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We often forget our human connectedness. Throughout my life, I have felt the greatest beauty lies in this connection. It has been in the deepest connections with others that I have experienced the greatest degree of learning, healing and transformation. This connection is a powerful thing, with the ability to transform lives, and ultimately transform human experience.”
Source: Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening
“We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.”
“We often forget that growth requires sacrifice.”
Source: Illumination
“We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.”
“We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.”
“We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.”
“We often forget that we are as we are until we're not. We are the same until we're changed. We can move that a bit further by putting into place healthy habits and to show up to our lives in a way that fosters growth, but we can't game timing.
Timing is the one thing that we often forget to surrender to.
Things are dark until they're not. Most of our unhappiness stems from the belief that our lives should be different than they are. We believe we have control -- and our self-loathing and self-hatred comes from this idea that we should be able to change our circumstances, that we should be richer or hotter or better or happier. While self-responsibility is empowering, it can often lead to this resentment and bitterness that none of us need to be holding within us. We have to put in our best efforts and then give ourselves permission to let whatever happens to happen--and to not feel so directly and vulnerably tied to outcomes. Opportunities often don't show up in the way we think they will.
You don't need more motivation or inspiration to create the life you want. You need less shame around the idea that you're not doing your best. You need to stop listening to people who are in vastly different life circumstances and life stages than you tell you that you're just not doing or being enough. You need to let timing do what it needs to do. You need to see lessons where you see barriers. You need to understand that what's right now becomes inspiration later. You need to see that wherever you are now is what becomes your identity later.
Sometimes we're not yet the people we need to be in order to contain the desires we have. Sometimes we have to let ourselves evolve into the place where we can allow what we want to transpire.”
“We often forget that we are nature.”
“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”
“We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.”
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
“We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it is has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently. ("Happy days are back again")”
“We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.”
Source: ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change
“We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.”
“We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.”
“We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.”
“We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.”
“We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).”
“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“We often give painkillers the credit that ought to be given to the passage of time, the belief that they would kill the pain, or the water that accompanied them.”
“We often go astray, seeking our own way, until the the sacred moment of suffering, then we find grace to cry out for Saviour.”
“We often have a variety of commitments competing for our time at any given moment.”
“We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.”
“We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.”
“We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us”
“We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice to question the privileges.”
“We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we may not agree. This is a prerequisite for a functional democracy. But tolerance alone is not sufficient; it allows us to accept others without engaging with them, to feel smug and self-satisfied without challenging the boundaries within which too many of us live.”
Source: What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
“We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.”
Source: Killosophy
“We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.”
“We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.”
“We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“We often hear of someone saying, ‘So you don’t trust me’ or ‘Are you questioning my integrity?’ or ‘You don’t believe me.’ They get defensive and angry because someone questions their actions, and they think they are above being questioned or having to prove their trustworthiness. But none of us is above questioning.”
Source: Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
“We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"”