W Quotes
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“We swim in an ocean of feedback.”
Source: Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.”
Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
“We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.”
“We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.”
Source: Wintergirls
“We swore we’d make it through, but we drowned in the rapids of our love.”
“We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!”
“We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know -- that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
Source: West with the Night
“We sympathize and feel sorry for people who are living the consequences of their actions and behavior. The very same people who were laughing, ridiculing, and mocking us.The time they were making those decisions.”
“We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.”
“We take a cavalier approach to Scripture at our own peril. If the scientific and historical accounts are true, then the commandments, promises and penalties are much more so. The Bible is not just a guideline. It is the authoritative Word of God. Disobeying it has consequences. Obeying it has rewards. Yet we fudge. We compromise. We rationalize. We trade away our spiritual integrity for man’s approval and as we do, we gradually erode our ability to distinguish right from wrong, to see our own failings, and to turn back in repentance to God. We simply have no idea how this cavalier attitude towards God’s Word taints our witness and hinders the kingdom of God.”
“We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.”
“We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.”
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”
“We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.”
“We take a lot of things for granted in our lives, such as gravity, air, daylight and time. Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant non-renewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully; intentionally, wisely and productively.”
Source: The Power of a Half Hour: Take Back Your Life Thirty Minutes at a Time
“We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We take a word, such as freedom, and dress it up to mean the ability to bear firearms, display flags, collect rainwater or grow clean food, but absolute freedom is not a relative construct. It is not there one minute or outlawed the next. It can never be seized or given. It is ever-lasting and omnipresent.”
Source: We Are One
“We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.”
Source: Austerlitz
“We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.”
“We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.”
“We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.”
“We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it”
“We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.”
“We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.”
“We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?”
“We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.”
“We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.”
“We take chances, do certain things and in the end it either works or it doesn’t. But did I take a chance? Did it mean something? Was it worth it or did it hurt me? And if it hurt me, was it worth it?”
“We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.”
“We take death to reach a star”
Source: The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin
“We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia.”
Abuse? Use, surely. She was using it exactly as intended.”
Source: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
“We take drugs because we want to feel a sense of connection, and we seek God for the same reason. The search, no matter where it's directed - divine union or cocaine - begins with pain that comes from believing you're separate from love. The key is using spiritual practice to turn inward, toward awareness, which is what we actually are.”
“We take everything for granted, but when I'm with Angeline, I see the world through new eyes. She makes my world better. It's why she's so great.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.”
“We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.”
“We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.”
“We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.”
“We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its thoughts need cleansing and ordering as much as our bodies. While few of us would consider eating dinner on yesterday's dirty dishes, we think nothing of tackling our problems with yesterdays cluttered minds.... The purpose to any meditation technique is to move beyond the normal contents of our consciousness, empty your mind of its habitual chatter, and concentrate your attention for the purpose of experiencing a higher state”
“We take for granted the shape of our world and the position of the continents— the familiar geography that seems as eternal as the order of the planets. But this arrangement is temporary: it isn't how the planet has been and it isn't how it will be.”
Source: The Ends of the World
“We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.”
“We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.”
Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.”
Source: How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life
“We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves”
“We take happiness when and where we can get it. One has nothing to do with the other. you know that. Intellectually, you know that is the truth. One can still be grieving and yet have a moment of shared laughter or passion. There is no guilt in living when you have lost so much. You live for them. You make your life count. You live to keep their memory alive. You live for yourself. It's all wrapped up together. We are part of the universe and it is vast. We are small, insignificant in the tapestry, yet we are there. A part of something larger. One false pull of that thread and everything could unravel.”
Source: Dark Sentinel
“We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.”
“We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.”
“We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.”
“We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.”
Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully
“We take it for granted that life moves forward. You build memories; you build momentum.You move as a rower moves: facing backwards.
You can see where you've been, but not where you’re going. And your boat is steered by a younger version of you.
It's hard not to wonder what life would be like facing the other way. Avenoir.
You'd see your memories approaching for years, and watch as they slowly become real.
You’d know which friendships will last, which days are important, and prepare for upcoming mistakes. You'd go to school, and learn to forget.
One by one you'd patch things up with old friends, enjoying one last conversation before you
meet and go your separate ways.
And then your life would expand into epic drama. The colors would get sharper, the world would feel bigger.
You'd become nothing other than yourself, reveling in your own weirdness.
You'd fall out of old habits until you could picture yourself becoming almost anything.
Your family would drift slowly together, finding each other again.
You wouldn't have to wonder how much time you had left with people, or how their lives would turn out.
You'd know from the start which week was the happiest you’ll ever be, so you could relive it again and again.
You'd remember what home feels like,
and decide to move there for good.
You'd grow smaller as the years pass, as if trying to give away everything you had before leaving.
You'd try everything one last time, until it all felt new again.
And then the world would finally earn your trust, until you’d think nothing of jumping freely into things, into the arms of other people.
You'd start to notice that each summer feels longer than the last.
Until you reach the long coasting retirement of childhood.
You'd become generous, and give everything back.
Pretty soon you’d run out of things to give, things to say, things to see.
By then you'll have found someone perfect; and she'll become your world.
And you will have left this world just as you found it.
Nothing left to remember, nothing left to regret, with your whole life laid out in front of you, and your whole life left behind.”
“We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.”