David Whyte Quotes

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

David Whyte

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Why
  • Society
  • Giving

• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Work
  • Real
  • Me

• The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Tyranny

• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Down

• If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Opportunity
  • Understanding
  • Everyday

• But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Mean

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Mistake

• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Sentence

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Fear
  • Know
  • Cold

• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

  

  Edward Said
  • Power

• It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

  

  David Whyte
  • Fear
  • Understanding