W Quotes
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“We should always be practicing humility and remaining in a humble state of mind. When you have nice things and are able to have and do the things you want, need and desire to do, consider it a blessing. Be grateful. Pray often and give thanks. Because what purpose does it serve to spitefully brag directly to a poor man about the luxuries that you have when we all know that it can be taken away at the blink of an eye.
Furthermore, it is not show of humanity when you approach the poor to show and tell them of all the riches you have that they do not have, if you are not feeding them. A Word.”
“We should always be ready to explore our positive and negative traits by evaluating our real self from time to time.”
“We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.”
Source: Three Faces of Power
“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”
Source: Shade of His Hand: Talks on the Book of Ecclesiastes
“We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.”
“We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.”
“We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.”
“We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.”
Source: Aphorisms
“We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.”
“We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.”
“we should always hope that things will turn our for the best, and we should especially hope of Allah's mercy and grace.”
Source: Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
“We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.”
“We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.”
“We should always live in holiness and reveal the holiness of God to the world”
“We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.”
Source: An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994
“We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.”
Source: The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains
“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record”
“We should always plan in advance, organize in order and learn to enroll in the mindsets of people before we control and achieve our goal”
“We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.”
Source: The Other Side of Heaven
“We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.”
“We should always reassure our children that they are never alone. Time flies by so fast that before we know it our children will be grown and living their own lives. With that being said, we should never miss a chance to empower our children. Our children’s individuality is unique and we should teach them to embrace their authentic selves.”
“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art”
Source: A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews
“We should always respect our teachers, because transforming children into knowledge-oriented young people is a precious and extremely difficult job.”
“We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.”
“We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.”
“We should always strive to understand what makes us feel bad... before we feel bad, if possible. As well as what makes us feel good... although that could be the hardest thing of all.”
Source: When Everything Turned Blue
“We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.”
Source: The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“We should appreciate that people are responsible for their choice of words and actions, as opposed to what others decide to hear or feel.”
“We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”
Source: Commentary on Psalms
“We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.”
“We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?”
“We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.”
“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.”
“We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”
“We should associate only with positive, focused people who we can learn from and who will not drain our valuable energy with complaining and uninspiring attitudes. When we develop and maintain relationships with those who are committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, we will have plenty of company on our path to the top of whatever mountain we seek to climb.”
“We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This resonates with ordinary people, as long as we speak ordinary language and don't come across as elitists.”
“We should, at all times, insist that we belong to ourselves and have the agency to make decisions about our own lives. Our voices, whether loud or soft, matter. Our behaviour, whether seen as 'good' or 'bad', remains our choice.”
Source: Miss Behave
“We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us.
It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.”
Source: Archeofuturism
“We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.”
“We should balance the budget. If government programs are important enough, we need to pay for them with taxes or make cuts in lesser programs. We've lost that discipline entirely. It seems prudent to avoid the possibility that the people who own our debt will start to worry the U.S. won't pay. That would raise how much it would cost the U.S. to borrow, which in a national emergency, like a war or pandemic, could be critical.”
“We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.”
“We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.”
Source: Self-realization
“We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.”
“We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to”
“We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.”
“We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.”
“We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.”