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Wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen. — David Whyte

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love. — David Whyte

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. — David Whyte

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine. — David Whyte

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down. — Alexander Whyte

Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome. — Mary Whyte

Read and admire, but then go back to first principles and ask the question yourself, in your own way. Dare to disagree. — David Whyte

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness. — David Whyte

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives. — Nathan Glazer

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself. — Alexander Whyte

We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement. — David Whyte

We shape our self
to fit this world
and by the world
are shaped again — David Whyte

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown. — David Whyte

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses. — David Whyte

Genius is becoming something you were all along. — David Whyte

Poetry: Language against which we have no defences. — David Whyte

The spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing. — William H. Whyte

Another one? They seem to be multiplying like flies, these philosophers. — Mervyn S. Whyte

Whatever their occupation, almost all organization people feel their particular job is depression-proof. — William H. Whyte

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. — William H. Whyte

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. — William H. Whyte

The quality of taking responsibility does not come naturally. It has to be taught
more by example than by anything else. — Daniel Whyte III

What oftentimes draws the good church girl to the bad boy is the bad in the good church girl, which the Bible calls the flesh. — Daniel Whyte III

One should not only be smart in his head, but one should also be smart in how he relates to other people. — Daniel Whyte III

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. — William H. Whyte

feeling fatally drawn to him as a ship to the rock on which it will dash itself to pieces, — Carolyn Whyte

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief. — David Whyte

Adventure responds to your call. — Garfield Whyte

Walking the roads is enough today, I'll follow the dark line of receding sun — David Whyte

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. — George Whyte-Melville

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. — David Whyte

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer. — Alexander Whyte

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem. — William H. Whyte

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing. — David Whyte

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. — David Whyte

You're not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross. — Alexander Whyte

One small thing
I've learned these years,
how to be alone,
and at the edge of aloneness
how to be found by the world. — David Whyte

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go? — David Whyte

The lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story — David Whyte

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals. — William H. Whyte

Thought is borne of failure. — Lancelot Law Whyte

The moment you've uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you're already turning towards home. — David Whyte

Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering. — David Whyte

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended. — Alexander Whyte

Thought is born of failure. — Lancelot Law Whyte

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes. — Jack Whyte

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. — David Whyte

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. — David Whyte

Politicians don't create jobs. — Jamie Whyte

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. — David Whyte

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit. — Alexander Whyte

Yes,it is remarkable how far a person can travel by sea. — S.L. Whyte

Heartbreak is how we mature ... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak. — David Whyte

An educated woman knows how to make both men and women feel at ease in her presence without losing respect. — Daniel Whyte III

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears — David Whyte

If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food. — William H. Whyte

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own. — David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. — David Whyte

What I have not seen
or failed to see
I leave as a gift. — David Whyte

Work and life are not separate things and therefore cannot be balanced against each other except to create further trouble. — David Whyte

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection. — David Whyte

I knew even then, the first time that I saw you, that I loved you. — Jack Whyte

Let the apple ripen
on the branch
beyond your need
to take it down. — David Whyte

How do I know a really good book? When, between the pages, I come undone. — Marcia Whyte

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God. — Alexander 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

Happiness is a rare cosmetic. — George Whyte-Melville

I believe this Emperador Distillers investment in Whyte & Mackay is good for the Philippines as a whole, not only beneficial to our business. — Andrew Tan

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends. — George Whyte-Melville

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street. — William H. Whyte

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher. — Alexander Whyte

What if the world is holding its breath -
waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill? — David Whyte

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties. — David Whyte

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born. — David Whyte

To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. — David Whyte

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it. — Alexander Whyte

There is no house like the house of belonging. — David Whyte

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made. — David Whyte

Grace, then, is grace,
that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting. — Alexander Whyte

The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it. — David Whyte

Poetry is a break for freedom. — David Whyte

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people. — William H. Whyte

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare. — David Whyte

The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality. — David Whyte

Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity. — David Whyte

What is time? How is it measured? Why do we measure it? What is its purpose?
-Mr. Ludwig — S.L. Whyte

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. — David Whyte

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. — David Whyte

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. — David Whyte

To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. — David Whyte

Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don't mistake other people's questions for your own. — David Whyte

People tend to sit where there are places to sit — William H. Whyte

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. — David Whyte

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

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. — David Whyte

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication. — David Whyte

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown. — David Whyte