We Often Quotes

402 quotes by 314 authors

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it. — Sakyong Mipham
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. — Leo Tolstoy
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. — Gloria Steinem
Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my… — C.S. Lewis
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we… — Irvine Welsh
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; andâ€¦though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so… — Mitch Albom
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from… — Edmund White
The human mind delights in finding patternâ€”so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought… — Stephen Jay Gould
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich — Leo Tolstoy
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is… — Bell Hooks
We often confuse what we wish for with what is. — Neil Gaiman
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the… — Edgar Allan Poe
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. — Cynthia Ozick
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have. — Rita Mae Brown
Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep — Wystan Hugh Auden
We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to… — Andy Goldsworthy
I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have. — Mary Balogh

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