W Quotes
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“We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.”
Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age
“We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's what I want", instead of focusing on "what do I want?" and then figuring out how we could pull it off.”
“We tend to think that being mindful, which might be thought of as just turning one’s life into a big prayer of thanksgiving, is a linear thing.
It’s really more a higgledy-piggledy dance, which I hope you’re enjoying immensely.”
Source: BIG: the practice of joy
“We tend to think that God doesn’t struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity”
“We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.”
Source: Killosophy
“We tend to think that we have only two options in our life; either survive or die. We fluctuate our focus solely on these two ends. But we often forget while traveling between these two ends there is a middle path that we must pass, where we learn ‘To Live.”
Source: The Journey: You, I & The ONE
“We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun”
“We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“We tend to think too far ahead in our lives, and many of these thoughts are full of apprehension. Let these thoughts of fear, or doubt go and live for today. Situations never turn out just the way we imagine them and some never happen at all.”
“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.”
“We tend to trust others with whom we share similar values or worldviews. The shared belief in the supernatural world accesible through trance, where one interacts with watchful ancestors and spirits might be a basis upon which trust could be built. If while ritually interacting with beloved ancestors, members of both groups pledge their mutual allegiance, then rivals might become friends and trading partners. Once again, a psychological resource, trust, gives access to the material resources of trade.”
Source: Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion: Psychological and Ritual Resources
“We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.”
“We tend to use knowledge as therapy.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.”
“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.”
“We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.”
“We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.”
“We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.”
Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus
“We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.”
“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.”
“We thank God that our enemies are idiots.”
“We thank Him for everything before we ask Him for anything!”
“We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.”
“We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.”
Source: CITY LEGENDS
“We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.”
“We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.”
“We that are true lovers run into strange capers.”
“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.”
Source: The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen
“We that have done and thought,
That have thought and done,
Must ramble, and thin out
Like milk spilt on a stone.”
“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen to be around today, but as a particular way of looking at the world, a worldview that began in the Renaissance in the West with such components as Renaissance humanism, rationalism, et cetera. As I have mentioned already, modernism rejects the primacy of absolute and ultimate truth transcending the human order and descend- ing upon the human realm from the Divine Order. It places man himself at the center of the stage as ‘‘the absolute.’’ In a sense it absolutizes the human being in his or her earthly reality. Usually it does not come out and say so explicitly, but that is what it really means; that is, it takes the absolute away from God and puts it on the human plane, and therefore makes human reason, human perceptions, human interests the criteria of reality, of knowledge, of the truth, of the goal of human life. Therefore, as a consequence it substitutes the significance of the temporal and the transient for the abiding and the eternal.”
Source: در جستوجوی امر قدسی
“We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the honor of the country. We, the most hated, must take hate into our hands and by the miracle of love, turn loathing into love. We, the most feared and apprehensive must take fear and by love, change it into hope. We, who die daily in large and small ways, must take the demon death and turn it into life.-Martin Luther King Jr.”
“We (the British) invented bureaucracy. India just perfected it.”
Source: River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra
“We the experts in cognitive and behavioral sciences can predict human behavior but not human potential. What this means is that, though we can tell how a person is likely to feel, think and behave in a certain situation, we still cannot tell what a person is capable of. Hence the possibilities that a person holds in their neurons are immeasurable.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“We- the Folk- don't love like you do,' Locke said. 'Perhaps you shouldn't trust me with your heart. I might break it.”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“We' (the Gnani Purush) are neither indifferent (nispruha) nor are 'we' with inclination (saspruha) We are saspruha-nispruha. 'We' have indifference towards your worldly matters and 'we' have interest in matters regarding of your Soul (Atma).”
“We' [The Gnani Purush] do not fracture your ego, ‘we’ fracture your wrong belief.”
Source: Noble Use of Money
“We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) are by nature, non-interfering. If ‘we’, ourselves are non-interfering, then how can interfering people around ‘us’ can touch ‘us’? All interferences go away in ‘our’ [the Gnani’s] presence. What problems can the one that dwells in the Self [the Soul], have? The worldly life does not hinder the one who dwells in the Self.”
“We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that ‘ours’ is correct; nor do ‘we’ have the time to make you correct as well.”
“We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing ‘Jagat kalyan’ (world’s salvation).”
“We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) would never say to anyone, ‘listen to me!’ because that is indeed not under his control.”
“We’ (the Gnani, the self realized), have never had a difference of opinion with anyone. Because the Gnani’s (the self realized) language is different and the agnani’s (non-Self-realized) language is different. The Gnani’s (the self realized) language is ‘real’ and the agnani’s (non-Self-realized) language is ‘relative’.”
Source: Aptavani-4
“We, the human race, are so accustomed to having instead of being. What wastage of the revelations and magic in every moment.”
“We, the human race, must recognize the truth of—and embrace—the principle of color-blind individualism. We must acknowledge that race does not matter—that skin pigmentation, hair texture, facial bone structure, and so forth—signify zero regarding the only human attribute that does matter: Strength of character.
There is only one race—the human race.”
Source: American Racism: Its Decline, Its Baleful Resurgence, and Our Looming Race War
“We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself.”
“We the humans are too tiny to know something so grand as an Eternal Driving Force behind the Universe. Ultimately what would really matter in the development of our species as a whole is, we the humans serving humanity.”
Source: In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience