Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love
David Whyte
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Poet
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
Love
Calling
Except
Grandly
Face
Biblically
Faces
Abrupt
Faith
Subtly
Moment
Intimately
Moments
Preparing
Come
Waking
More quotes by David Whyte
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.
David Whyte
To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.
David Whyte
What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?
David Whyte
Genius is becoming something you were all along.
David Whyte
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
David Whyte
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.
David Whyte
Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.
David Whyte
To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.
David Whyte
The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
David Whyte
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
David Whyte
I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
David Whyte
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
David Whyte
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.
David Whyte
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
David Whyte
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
David Whyte
The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.
David Whyte
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
David Whyte
If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.
David Whyte
Poetry is a break for freedom.
David Whyte
Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.
David Whyte
