W Quotes
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“We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.”
“We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.”
Source: Sermons
“We ourselves can never be free if we rob others of their freedom.”
“We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
“We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.”
“We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.”
“We ourselves (one single species) have taken over vast tracts of the inhabitable surface of the planet. Surely, we should allow those other creatures we share the planet with to retain some part of their ancient heritage.”
“We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)
“We ourselves tell and show society and the people around us how they have to treat us. You cannot be overly giving and understanding. People get used to it and begin to take you for granted.”
Source: Petrichor
“We ourselves, the workers, will organize large-scale production on the basis of what capitalism has already created; we shall rely on our own experience as workers, we shall establish strict, iron discipline supported by the state power of the armed workers, we shall reduce the role of the state officials to that of simply carrying out our instructions as responsible, revocable, moderately paid "managers" (of course, with the aid of technicians of all sorts, types and degrees). This is our proletarian task, this is what we can and must start with in carrying out the proletarian revolution. Such a beginning, on the basis of large-scale production, will of itself lead to the gradual "withering away" of all bureaucracy, to the gradual creation of an order, order without quotation marks, which will be different from wage-slavery, an order in which the functions of control and accounting—becoming more and more simple—will be performed by each in turn, will then become a habit and will finally die out as the special functions of a special stratum of the population.”
Source: Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
“We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One....The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.”
“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”
“We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.”
“We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.”
“We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”
“We over-exaggerate yesterday. We either think it was better or worse than it was - you know, the good old days. We over-estimate tomorrow; we think we can do more than we can - always. And that's why we put off everything till tomorrow.”
“We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.”
“We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all evil out of our own hearts. The evil that is in us is more than moral. There is a psychological evil, the distortion caused by selfishness and sin. Good moral intentions are enough to correct what is formally bad in our moral acts. But in order that our charity may heal the wounds of sin in our whole soul it must reach down into the furthest depths of our humanity, cleaning out all the infection of anxiety and false guilt that spring from pride and fear, releasing the good that has been held back by suspicion and prejudice and self-conceit. Everything in our nature must find its right place in the life of charity, so that the whole man may be lifted up to God, that the entire person may be sanctified and not only the intentions of his will.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We overemphasise supernatural powers when we are supposed to be doing reevaluation of ourselves.”
“We overestimate the damage done by procrastinating for a day and underestimate the damage done by procrastinating for several years.”
“We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.”
Source: Failing Forward
“We overestimate what we hear from others, what the facts may be. But the truth, it always lies in our hearts. When you choose the right person to love, you’re happy. Even after one or two failed attempts, when there are obstacles in the way, soon enough things have a way of working out. But if you’ve tried all you could, and you’re still suffering, then it’s time to let go. Just ask your heart. If the pain is more than you can handle, then it’s time to move on”
Source: The Flow
“We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.”
“We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.”
“We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.”
“We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.”
“We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.”
Source: Poetical works
“We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.”
“We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter or the way we look in our Facebook photos. As a result, we neglect activities that are truly essential, like spending time with our loved ones, or nurturing our spirit, or taking care of our health.”
“We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.”
“We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.”
Source: Arguably
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
“We owe a lot to the Internet, for introducing people to technology and virtual space and what not.”
“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.”
“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously, and dared to step outside the boundaries of conventional thought.”
Source: A Heretic's Devotional
“We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our countrys military, as well as to the families of those individuals. Whether protecting our freedoms in foreign fields or making contributions here at home, the value these men and women bring to the American workforce and our way of life is beyond measure.”
“We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.”
“We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.”
“We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.”
“We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised "awesome" in a week of scripted "blah".
But because it advanced our understanding.
This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates about his policies and actions, and successes and or failures as president - I mean, tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world, and the president republicans describe, bears so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience. And now I know why :
There is a president Obama that only republicans can see”
Source: Miscellaneous writings
“We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.”
“We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough.”
“We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.”
“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
Source: Fragile Things
“We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.”
“We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.”
“We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.”