T Quotes
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“The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.”
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.”
Source: Hsin Hsin Ming
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”
Source: Hsin Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith Mind
“The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.”
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences...I f you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.”
“The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear.”
“The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.”
“The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.”
“The great way to live life is to love.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.”
“The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.”
Source: Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)
“The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.”
“The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)
“The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.”
“The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.”
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
“The great white cold walks abroad!”
Source: Along the Trail
“The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.”
Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails
“The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.”
Source: Another Whole Nother Story
“The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.”
“The great wisdom of ageing is to be as forthcoming as a Freemason when people ask how old you are.”
“The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.”
“The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.”
Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.”
“The great work is to wait on God.”
“The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.”
Source: Transcendental Magic
“The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.”
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
“The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.”
Source: Asger Jorn
“The Great Work of Magic is the collapsing of the future into the immediate present; the magician seizes reality and lives now, free from the bonds of his past, and knowing that the future is the Manifestation of his Will.”
“The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.”
“The great workman of nature is time.”
“The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.”
Source: The Philosophy of Nietzsche
“The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.”
“The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.”
“The great works of culture have it in their power to clear mental confusion, they give us words for things we had felt but had not previously grasped; they replace cliché with insight.”
Source: Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today
“The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.”
“The great would have none great and the little all little.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.”
“The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.”
“The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.”
“The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.”
“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.”
Source: On Liberty: Mill's Works
“The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.”
“The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.”
“The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.”
“The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.”
“The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”
“The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.”