T Quotes
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“The more restless and ambitious you are, the more restraint you must exercise.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.”
“The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“The more revolutions occur, the less things change.”
Source: The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America
“The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.”
“The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.”
“The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.”
“The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.”
Source: The God I Love: A Lifetime of Walking with Jesus
“The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy”
“The more rigid the rules of a society, the more insecure the rulers.”
“The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.”
“The more risk you can take upfront in life, the better off you will be later.”
“The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.”
“The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.”
“The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.”
“The more routine that systematised activities are, the more nearly they are of the monotonous character seen in the habits of social animals and the less necessary are master builders; the more novel actions are, the more necessary are master builders. Dislike of the leader and the promoter, though linked emotionally to progressivism, is linked logically to total conservatism. Conversely, an authoritarian approach, natural enough in the instigator of new activities, is unjustified in the mere overseer of routines.”
Source: Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good
“The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.”
“The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.”
“The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.”
“The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering odds against our existence begin to become a bit unsettling. When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.”
Source: Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life
“The more secrets you have from someone, the harder it is to look them in the eye. Now I could barely look at him at all.”
Source: Bad Girls with Perfect Faces
“The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.”
“The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately
“The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.”
“The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.”
“The more segmentation you do, the more groups will be formed and your sample size will increase in response to that.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“The more self-knowledge you have, the calmer you can be.”
“The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.”
“The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.”
“The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.”
“The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.”
Source: The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”
“The more sensual we get, the less appetite for sinning we have. Most of us have been told the opposite.
I mean, you cannot get me to like or watch porn even if you promised to pay me a million dollars. I have no appetite whatsoever for it. In fact, I’m completely repulsed by it. It is so not aligned with my sensuality that the sight of it nauseates me. I literally get an urge to”
“The more sensual we get, the less appetite for sinning we have. Most of us have been told the opposite.
I mean, you cannot get me to like or watch porn even if you promised to pay me a million dollars. I have no appetite whatsoever for it. In fact, I’m completely repulsed by it. It is so not aligned with my sensuality that the sight of it nauseates me. I literally get an urge to vomit, and I’m not exaggerating. Something weird just happens in my body, and it’s got nothing to do with shame but sensuality. You see, sensuality is pure and holy, something many of us are yet to realize.”
“The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, “Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.”
Source: Shaman, Healer, Sage
“The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.”
Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy
“The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.”
Source: Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.”
“The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.”
“The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.”
“The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.”
“The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.”
“The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will.”
“The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.”
“The more severe and chronic the traumatization, the more dissociative parts can be expected to exist.”
“The more severe and prolonged the trauma, the more severe the fragmentation.”
Source: Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology