Quotes of: We-cannot Keyword

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and j...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Jesus told you all that I hid the spiritual wisdom from the mind and thus it could only be accessed from the heart. And yet men become “learned” in the Bible and study and pull it apart and attempt to put it back together again. Just like the old...

Listen Hear: A Divine Love Story

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the pri...

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

You are here and you can’t escape it. Thoughts about why you came to be here and a poor-me mentality will not help you to resolve the situation. You cannot avoid being here now, in this present moment, in this unfortunate predicament. Your choices,...

Yes! You Can Manage Stress: Regain Control of Your Life Using the Five Habits of Effective Stress Management

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memor...

Leon Uris

Unconditional parental love is the indespensible nutrient for the child's healthy emotional growth. The first task is to create space in the child's heart for the certainty that she is precisely the person the parents want and love. She does not have...

Gordon Neufeld

To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of one...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which are piled up goods that cannot satisfy: neither clothe those who are naked, nor feed those who are hungry; it is as impersonal as f...

Love

We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.

African-American

We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we think we are properly guided. We think we have leaders but in reality we do not. What we have are tyrants.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty goin...

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

Community And Growth

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

The Crossing

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

But the walls of my resolve mortared with stubbornness have been breached by circumstances I cannot handle alone.

Dirt Road Dreams

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

Digital Filmmaking

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The Dispossessed

Thoughts, intentions or feelings cannot comprehend God but they can see and acknowledge the works of God.

Divine Separations