W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.”
Source: Bleeds My Desire
“We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.”
“We spend our days occupied by a plethora of tasks and responsibilities. Are you spending your time effectively?”
“We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.”
Source: Aphorisms
“We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside”
“We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.”
“We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench”
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
“We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.”
Source: The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
“We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence.”
Source: Where the Lost Wander
“We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.”
Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around
“We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.”
“We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.”
“We spend our lives half-scared of what 'could-be' and half-hoping for what 'might be'.”
“We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.”
“We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).”
Source: But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“We spend our lives living by rules we've never tested. Who knows what can't be done until it's been tried?”
Source: The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
“We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.”
“We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.”
Source: Lovingkindness
“We spend our lives seeking comfort, and when we find it, we bury ourselves deep within it. But on the odd occasion, when all is quiet, something will come along that’ll rip us out of the ground and throw us into the unknown. A place where everything means nothing, nothing means everything and where comforts cease to be. It’s hard, there's no denying that, but remember, often the hardest and most unexpected situations can encourage the best type of change, growth.”
Source: The Dream To End All Dreams
“We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“We spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. We snatch our freeze-frame of life from the simultaneity of existence holding on to the illusions of permanence, congruence, and linearity; of static selves and lives that unfold in sensical narratives. All the while, we mistake chance for choice, our labels and models of things for the things themselves, our records for history. History is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance.”
Source: Figuring
“We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.”
“We spend our lives using our liberties to engage in the very things that enslave us. And that’s because we’ve taken license with the gift of liberty, rendered it a stepchild to the bane of our greed, and found our lives enslaved to the tyrant that we have become.”
“We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.”
“We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.”
“We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.”
“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“We spend our time trying to make our "if onlys" come true only to discover that even if we do achieve them, a new "if only" arises.”
Source: The Happiness Makeover: How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day
“We spend our whole lives looking for things that are meant to be, hoping that fate will guide us, rather than taking responsibility for our own choices.”
Source: The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature
“We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.”
“We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.”
“We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.”
Source: A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture
“We spend our youth hunting for the reality we think lies on the other side of our illusions. What we find at the other end of our search is what lies on the other side of the movie screen: a dark and desolate space that only reveals the unreality of what we pursued. So we spend our adulthood trying to recapture the illusions. Few of us do.”
Source: Flicker
“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”
“We spend probably more of our time than we should, just because it's close to home, worrying about the West. But it's equally important to figure out how we're going to free up the resources to let the developing world leapfrog the fossil fuel age. That's at least as mathematically important, and at least as morally crucial.”
“We spend prolonged periods in pubs and restaurants after all, whiling away the hours with friends, waiting in vain for the weather to ease.
Our homes become a natural extension of these convivial spaces: warm and open to guests.
Spending so much time indoors with other people, perhaps over an alcoholic drink, encourages conversation, arguments and resolutions.
It fills us up with more knowledge - or at least allows us to realise there are other opinions aside from our own.”
Source: The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
“We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.”
“We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.”
“We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.”
“We spend so much of our life in activity…we almost feel uncomfortable just being – but that is huge restorative break in the wild swirl of activity around us – it’s like pulling back the bow in archery – like taking that big deep breath in before you dive into your day.”
“We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.”
“We spend so much of our time lost in thought, trying to label everything as isolated objects and events. Though we fail to realize that our thoughts are incapable of defining anything in its totality. We can think about a situation for as long as we want to, but our thoughts will never know the situation exactly as it exists.”
Source: Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
“We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.”
“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”
“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear the most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if...", "If only...", "I wonder what would have..." You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
“We spend so much time chasing butterflies that we rarely appreciate the beauty of the flowers.”
“We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.”