T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The essence of the Way is detachment.”
“The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.”
“The essence of things is not rationally knowable, and reality cannot be reduced to mechanistic frameworks. When realizing this, we can finally start to look for the essence of life where it truly can be found: in that which always escapes rationalization and mechanization, in that which dissapears from a conversation when you digitalize it, in the difference between the mother's womb and an artificial plastic womb, in the difference between the heat of an electric heater and that of a wood-burning stove, and so on.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“The essence of this law is that you must think abundance; see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind.”
Source: The Secret of the Ages: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.”
Source: Aphorisms
“The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.”
“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”
“The essence of training is the experience of training and what you learn about yourself through it. Training is about the process. You will get there and there is one simple thing to do it. Consistency.”
“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.”
“The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.”
“The essence of true leadership is our willingness to leave wherever we might be in order to meet people wherever they happen to be.”
“The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the person we want to attract. When our real self appears in its entirety, when the good behavior becomes too much to maintain or the masks are taken away, disappointment comes. All too often individuals feel, after the fact-when feelings are hurt and hearts are broken-that it was a case of mistaken identity, that the loved one is a stranger. They saw what they wanted to see rather than what was really there.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.”
Source: Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.”
“The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.”
“The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.”
“The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.”
Source: Complete Works
“The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.”
“the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.”
Source: Singing Waters
“The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.”
“The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.”
“The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.”
“The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others”
“The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.”
Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.”
Source: The Ultimate Resource 2
“The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.”
“The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.”
Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
“The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.”
“The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.”
“The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's children might be a different color is something very alarming to them - in short they are committed to the maintenance of the static image.”
“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”
Source: The Last Enchantment
“The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.”
“The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it”
“The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.”
“The essence of your being reincarnates.”
“The essence of your mind is not born, so it will never die. It is not an existence, which is perishable. It is not an emptiness, which is a mere void. It has neither colour nor form. It enjoys no pleasures and suffers no pains.
I know you are very ill. Like a good Zen student, you are facing that sickness squarely. You may not know exactly who is suffering, but question yourself: What is the essence of this mind? Think only of this. You will need no more. Covet nothing. Your end which is endless is as a snowflake dissolving in pure air.”
“The essence of your soul path is unique only to you. You will not find it in the texts and teachings of others, because it is a core spiritual truth one can only find within.”
“The essence of Zen is Awakening. This is why one does not talk about Zen, one experiences it.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.”
“The essences of giving is to meet each other's need.”
“The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.”
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
Source: Studies in Classic American Literature