W Quotes
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“We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.”
“We should practice metta in all these activities. Anger, resentment or disappointment can arise at any time over the course of the day. We risk perpetuating our confused way of relating to others if we do not also make loving-friendliness a habit in all our counters with others, even in the stories we tell ourselves about them.”
Source: Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
“We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.”
“We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.”
Source: The Art of Chess Combination
“We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste”
“We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].”
“We should pray to be reconciled with God in everything so we can get grace to react in a godly way. Then you will be content with the way God does things for you in your life. If you are satisfied, you are satisfied, regardless of whether you are healthy, free, and active, or are limited in some way.”
“We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.”
“We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.”
“We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.”
“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.”
“We should prioritize virtue over desire . We should not assume that any given feeling we discover in our hearts (or our loins) ought to be acted upon.”
Source: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
“We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.”
Source: The Spiral Staircase
“We should probably consider locking the door from time to time,” Eli pointed out with a shrug, looking more curious than angry, deeply inhaling the enticing scent. “That is a delicious smelling intruder.”
Source: Gilded Mess
“We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.”
“We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched in our careers. And, of necessity, we're earning a living, and it's taking our time, and we're building our résumé, and we want our résumé generally to be our proficiency within our field, because chances are we're going to be applying for another position within the field. So we tend to put off a lot of this sort of what I call parallel discovery until we're either very successful and have the time to do that, or more often until we're retired.”
“We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?”
“We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.”
“We should protect life but I'm not interested in anything that restricts birth control. And I'm not interested in anything that restricts in vitro fertilization because I think parents who are struggling to create life, to have a child, that is a wonderful thing.”
“We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.”
“We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.”
“We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children.”
“We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.”
“We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.”
“We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty”
“We should raise the national minimum wage.”
“We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.”
“We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.”
“We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.”
“We should read the Bible expectantly, systematically, and obediently . . .The Bible can change our lives as we read it and obey its teachings every day.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.”
“We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is not always easy.”
“We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.”
“We should realize that we have, deep within ourselves, deep pools of great ability, that can be tapped, if we’ll just dig deeply enough.”
Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
“We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.”
“We should realize there are so many things that us together rather than the things that keep us apart.”
“We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.”
“We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In all over the world. It took different forms, but it was there, everywhere. In Greece it was in the Greek revolution, and so on. And it had to be crushed. In countries like Greece, it was crushed by violence. In countries like Italy, where the US forces entered in 1943, it was crushed by attacking and destroying the anti-German partisans and restoring the traditional order.”
“We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.”
“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”
“We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.”
“We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.”
“We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.”
“We should rediscover for ourselves the meaning of our lives asking what we give power to something that is good value to save us in the face of any loss.”
Source: BEYOND OUR FEELINGS: How to reawaken your awareness within to make smarter choices, create deep, lasting relationships and live up to your true potential.
“We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.”
“We should refrain from adopting laws that would allow countries with poor scorecard on human rights to exploit backdoors on techs for silencing dissent.”
“We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.”
“We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each.”
“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more