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Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
— David 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
When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.
— George Whyte-Melville
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
You're not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.
— Alexander Whyte
feeling fatally drawn to him as a ship to the rock on which it will dash itself to pieces,
— Carolyn Whyte
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
— William H. 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
So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.
— William H. Whyte
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
— George Whyte-Melville
Adventure responds to your call.
— Garfield Whyte
The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.
— Alexander Whyte
Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.
— Alexander Whyte
It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.
— Alexander Whyte
It's not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.
— William H. Whyte
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
— 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
Thought is born of failure.
— Lancelot Law Whyte
One small thingI've learned these years,
how to be alone,
and at the edge of aloneness
how to be found by the world. — David 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
Heartbreak is how we mature ... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
— David Whyte
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
What I have not seenor 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
No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
— Alexander Whyte
Happiness is a rare cosmetic.
— George Whyte-Melville
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
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
Poetry is a break for freedom.
— David Whyte
What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.
— William H. 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
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
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
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
