We Sit Quotes
128 quotes by 108 authors
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We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
— Budd Schulberg
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
— Pema Chodron
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Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We…
— Barry Sanders
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Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to…
— K.P. Yohannan
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Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do…
— Alec Baldwin
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Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap…
— Angela Elwell Hunt
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We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice…
— Pema Chodron
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and…
— William Shakespeare
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Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing…
— Charlie Brooker
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We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
— Dave Haywood
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HEAVEN knows the difference between SUNDAY morning and WEDNESDAY afternoon. God longs to speak as CLEARLY in the workplace as He does in the sanctuary.…
— Max Lucado
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
— Steven Pressfield
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But…
— Ajahn Chah
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If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy
— Ravi Ravindra
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We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
— C.S. Lewis
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The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject…
— Pema Chodron
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Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These We Sit Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 128 We Sit Quotes, led by these top contributors: