"The price of our vitality is the sum…" — David Whyte
"The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears"
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64 Quotes by David Whyte
David Whyte has 64 quotes on this site.
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There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When…
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Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and…
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Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain…
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We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
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Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what…
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Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever…
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What you plan is too small for you to live.
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Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
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Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
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I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
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Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge…
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The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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