We Simply Quotes
159 We Simply quotes by 139 unique authors
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In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure…
— Woody Allen
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More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who…
— Dean Koontz
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How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or…
— Michael Ondaatje
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We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
— Stanislaw Lem
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We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we…
— Richard Rohr
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We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory…
— Robertson Davies
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My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we…
— Garth Stein
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I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the…
— Paulo Coelho
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We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking…
— Benjamin Hoff
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I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are…
— Rabih Alameddine
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There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need…
— Brandon Sanderson
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For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions…
— Edward Abbey
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The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Faith isn't about logic, son," Haddek said. "Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
— Thomas Lynch
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The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and…
— Paul Murray
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When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based…
— Chetan Bhagat
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I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.
— Paulo Coelho
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On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to…
— Naoki Higashida
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Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.'…
— Jim Rohn
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When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.
— Derrick Jensen
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and…
— Stephen Covey
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The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need…
— Unknown Author
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