T Quotes
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“The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.”
Source: The Science Of Discworld Revised Edition
“The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.”
“The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.”
“The more you think and talk, the more you lose the Way.”
“The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more you think of the goal you have in view, the more life and power you will call into action in working for that goal. The more you think of your ambition, the more power you will give to those faculties that can make your ambitions come true. The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.”
“The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.”
Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
“The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.”
“The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.”
“The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.”
“The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.”
“The more you tinker, the easier it becomes. You get used to remixing and improving your projects. You do research and get excited about what to try next. You get inspired by other people’s work. You might fall in love with an idea or get obsessed with finding the answer to a question. You’ll discover you don’t know all the answers.”
Source: The Tinkering Workshop: Explore, Invent & Build with Everyday Materials; 100 Hands-On STEAM Projects
“The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.”
“The more you train yourself to notice your happiness, the more it becomes yours.”
Source: The Healing Season of Pottery
“The more you travel, the better you get at it.”
“The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.”
“The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think.”
“The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.”
“The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.”
“The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.”
“The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you'll have. Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure everything out, and let God be God in your life.”
“The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.”
“The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.”
“The more you try the more it comes closer, If you do not believe, try it!
Try once!”
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself”
“The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.”
Source: Shantaram
“The more you try to bury us, the firmer our roots. The more you try to silence us, the louder our song.”
Source: Paragon Seven
“The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.”
“The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear”
“The more you try to escape from your problems, the more you become entangled with them and you create new problems that are not existed in the first place. Never run away from your problems, face them”
“The more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you”
“The more you try to hide the truth the more you expose it.”
“The more you try to hoard light, the more you lose it, and the more you share it, the more you have it.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn't make them love you, instead, they'll see you as a little child, trying to draw a senseless picture on a piece of paper, begging people to look at it and admire it by force. You can persuade someone to look at your face, but you can't persuade them to see the beauty therein.”
“The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself.”
“The more you try to please your emotional whims, the more insane you will get. Emotions are to be understood and tamed, not to rule; if you completely followed all of your emotions all the time, you'd be incapable of functioning. However, we now live in a society based off emotion, which is very clearly self-evident if you just look outside. [...] In our society we have this ideal of fairness, of giving 50/50 to both sides, and the reality though is that being fair is saying the truth, and we don't actually follow this ideal”
“The more you try to protect yourself from love, the more pain you bring to yourself and those that love you”
“The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.”
“The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.”
“The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.”
“The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the world. When you walk with purposeful focus on breath and birdsong, your breathing and the twitter of the chickadee reveal themselves as miracles. .”
Source: Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
“The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.”
“The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.”
“The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.”
“The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value.”