#tea

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#being #dead #dead end #defeat #delay

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath. ↗

— Tom Waits

#always #america #beneath #big #cadillac

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. ↗

— Alice Walker

#children #earlier #i #i believe #much

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. ↗

— Alice Walker

#i #teach #things #try #want

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. ↗

— Alice Walker

#active #active life #clearly #elder #especially

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#does #fancy #head #invade #keeps

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going. ↗

— David Walliams

#down #flowers #forget #get #gifts

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #demonstration #encounters #experience #human

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#book #many #misunderstand #mormon #other