W Quotes
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“We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.”
“We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.”
“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”
“We often think God puts us under judgment when we err, but I believe what happens is we pull ourselves out from under His grace.”
Source: Identity Thief: Exposing Satan's Plan to Steal Your Purpose, Passion and Power
“We often think happiness comes from the situations in our lives, when it actually comes from the way we choose to relate to the situations in our lives.”
“We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.”
“We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.”
Source: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“We often think of fight or flight as the main defensive reaction human beings turn to when faced with a threat. When under stress, we flee or hunker down for the impending battle. While this reaction does characterize a pervasive human tendency, researchers have documented another stress-response system that many people engage in when under threat: a “tend and befriend” response. They seek out other people for support and care.”
Source: Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
“We often think of great faith as something that happens spontaneously so that we can be used for a miracle or healing. However, the greatest faith of all, and the most effective, is to live day by day trusting Him. It is trusting Him so much that we look at every problem as an opportunity to see His work in our life.”
Source: Wisdom From Rick Joyner
“We often think of passion as optional — something we fit in after duty is done, or something reserved for the lucky few. But passion is not optional. It is essential. It is the doorway into wisdom, creativity, connection, and the most resourceful and inspired version of ourselves.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come.”
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ
“We often think of people 'falling' spiritually, but most people simply fizzle out like a damp firecracker and that is the end of the matter for that lifetime.”
Source: The Gospel of Thomas for Awakening: A Commentary on Jesus’ Sayings as Recorded by the Apostle Thomas
“We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.”
“We often think of time travel, to go back to our childhood and restart our life from the beginning, and that vivid memories makes us smile again.”
“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)
“We often think that "bad" relationships are motivating by self-loathing or a wish for self-destruction, but I think that loving people who hurt us is more tied to a profound and earnest wish to soothe ourselves and recover from older hurts. And I've also found that having empathy for that urge is the best way to move through it, and beyond it.”
“We often think that combining tasks will save us time, but scientific evidence shows that it has the opposite effect. Even those who claim to be good at multitasking are not very productive. In fact, they are some of the least productive people. Our brains can take million bits of information but can only actually process of few dozen per second. When we say we're multitasking, what we're really doing is switching back and forth between tasks very quickly. Unfortunately, we're not computers adept at parallel processing. We end up spending all our energy alternative between tasks, instead of focusing on doing one of them well. Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow.”
Source: Ikigai: Los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz
“We often think that only money, power and comfort give us gratification. But this is partial truth. We also feel happy when we play, work out, solve a complex problem or make a child smile by our love and affection. We enjoy success and hate failure, but there is hardly any success that is not preceded by failure. It is our failures that make our successes sweeter.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“We often think that our affairs, great or small, must be tended continuously and in detail, or our world will disintegrate, and we will lose our places in the universe. That is not true, or if it is true, then our situations were so temporary that they would have collapsed anyway.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“We often think that there is just one way to look at things - the way we always have. In fact, there are an infinite number of ways to look at most everything. An open mind allows for a multitude of perspectives from which to choose in any given moment. That suppleness of mind allows for true choice, and opens us to a whole new realm of possibility.”
Source: The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace
“We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.”
“We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'”
“We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.”
“We often think we know what is best for
us and then we plan and order our lives from this knowledge. God, however, knows the end from the beginning, He is the all wise One and He alone knows the future. We can spare ourselves so much sorrow and heartache, often, by going to God first and waiting on Him in prayer and waiting for His timing and plan to unfold, giving Him glory because He has a good plan for all of us.”
Source: God's King: Lessons From The Life and Times Of King David
“We often throw away what we still have so as not to regret what we have already lost.”
“We often throw rocks not realizing that they’re going to land somewhere.”
“We often to fail to notice what great emptiness comes with a life spent avoiding emotion.”
“We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house, uncontaminated by the bureaucracies of schools.”
“We often trick ourselves into thinking that we possess enough knowledge or control over any given situation to make correct choices. Maybe that is why we hold on to the decisions we make so dearly even when we know we are wrong.”
Source: The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making
“We often try to choose the path of the least resistance, yet within the process we get weaker; taking the path of more adversity, makes us have to grow stronger.”
“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“We often try to see the reflections of the people who left us in the people who come to stay with us and in the course of doing so, we often try to change them to someone who they are not and we often end up turning them into the pieces of same shattered mirror that used to hurt us before they came.”
“We often underestimate the impact we have on others.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.”
“We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God.”
Source: Healology
“We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.”
“We often wait for people in the smallest room they never visit.”
“We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.”
“We often wait for the resources before we make a move.”
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”
“We often want quick answers, quick results, instant rewards, and that’s normal in our high tech, instant, Google driven world.
To take that first step towards reaching a goal or realizing a dream, knowing that there will perhaps be a thousand more steps to follow in order to make it happen, can be daunting.
It’s simple and yet complicated. The simple part of achieving success is that it just takes work. For me, staying focused on my goals and envisioning my dreams every day, makes the work flow almost on its own.
The hard part is the mindset, and to not self sabotage, because you don’t believe in yourself. We often think we can’t achieve our wildest dreams or that we are somehow incapable, and then we never, ever take that first step.
I never felt that I was a very confident person, but with the support of some wonderful people and my own inner fire, I kept going. The hardest part after working and working, was to actually accept that I deserved success.
Success in itself is kind of scary too, as it comes with having to be responsible, and not flake out. The people who have supported you and invested in you deserve that.
I guess what I am trying to say is that if you want something, you have to take action. A little step towards it every day. Then there is a reason to feel accomplished every day. Match your energy and vibration with what you envision. Believe. You deserve success, so go for it.”
“We often want to hear, not what is true, but what we want to hear.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“We often wish to destroy what we’re scared of, but by doing so, we destroy ourselves.”
Source: The Woman in the White Kimono
“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.”
“We often wonder, why dead people get more flowers. I believe it's because our love, like a late-blooming rose, often finds its truest expression only when the season of life has passed.”
“We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.”
“We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.”
“We often worsen someone’s pain by pitying them openly.”