We Begin Quotes
305 quotes by 243 authors
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again…
— George Eliot
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We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to…
— Pema Chodron
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It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without…
— Pema Chodron
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well…
— Pema Chodron
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You know, so often we think we have each step figured out. And then when one thing doesn't go our way, we begin to question,…
— Nick Jonas
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I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
— John Green
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When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure…
— N. T. Wright
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As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
— John Ortberg
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If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
— Anais Nin
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signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding…
— Paulo Coelho
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Over and over, we begin again.
— Banana Yoshimoto
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What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin…
— Cameron Dokey
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert…
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients…
— John Hope Franklin
Who Wrote These We Begin Quotes
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