We Sit Quotes

128 quotes by 108 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy — Ravi Ravindra
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 6 We Sit Quotes by Unknown Author
• 5 We Sit Quotes by Pema Chodron
• 4 We Sit Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 4 We Sit Quotes by Steven Pressfield
• 2 We Sit Quotes by Rachel Joyce
• 2 We Sit Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 2 We Sit Quotes by Nicholas Sparks
• 2 We Sit Quotes by Winston Churchill
• 1 We Sit Quote by Alice Waters
• 1 We Sit Quote by Jonathan Swift
• 1 We Sit Quote by Lucy Christopher
• 1 We Sit Quote by Samuel R. Delany
• 1 We Sit Quote by Navid Negahban
• 1 We Sit Quote by Mary Oliver
• 1 We Sit Quote by Cesar Chavez
• 1 We Sit Quote by Richard Louv
• 1 We Sit Quote by Veronica Roth
• 1 We Sit Quote by Suzanne Collins
• 1 We Sit Quote by Rabindranath Tagore
• 1 We Sit Quote by John Welwood
• 1 We Sit Quote by Mary Anne Radmacher
• 1 We Sit Quote by Anais Nin
• 1 We Sit Quote by Li Bai
• 1 We Sit Quote by Mata Amritanandamayi
• 1 We Sit Quote by Swami Vivekananda