T Quotes
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“The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.”
“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”
Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies
“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”
“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation.”
“The real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving.”
“The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.”
“The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.”
“The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers”
“The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.”
“The real minimum wage is zero.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.”
“The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.”
“The real miracle is when someone is able to stop the cause of suffering and create the cause of happiness by learning that their own mind is the source of their suffering and happiness. The real miracle is to transform our mind, because this will take care of us for many lifetimes. Our positive attitude will stop us from creating the cause of problems, thus ensuring our happiness not only in this life but in hundreds, or even thousands, of future lives up to enlightenment. This is the greatest success. (p. 30)”
Source: Ultimate Healing: The Power of Compassion
“the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself”
“The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.”
“The real mistake is not what we’ve done. Rather, it’s how we’ve chosen to think about what we’ve done.”
“The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.”
“The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.”
“The real monsters are born, not made. They are the ones who watch behind friendly faces. The ones who come for the innocent trying to steal everything they have, be it their most treasured possessions, their honour or their lives. Not because they must, not because their very existence relies on it but simply because there is a thrill in it for them. To watch a man pierced by wrath and greed die a lonely death, to watch a woman pierced by lust and anger whimper away in fear. It thrills them to watch man burn and bleed. Real monsters love to turn the sound of beautiful life into many a terrified scream.”
Source: The Masks of Monsters
“The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.”
Source: The Dark Tower and Other Stories
“The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.”
“The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”
Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
“The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.”
“The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?”
“The Real Myth is "We Exist".”
“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.”
“The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.”
Source: The Folks at Home
“The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.”
“The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.”
“The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.”
“The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.”
“The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.”
“The real news is bad news.”
“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.”
“The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.”
“The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.”
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.”
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.”
“The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.”
Source: A Wodehouse Bestiary
“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”
Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
“The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.”
“The real opposite of love is fear. In love ine expands, in fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens. In fear one doubts, in love one trusts. In fear one is left lonely. In love one dissapears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all.”
Source: Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
“The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.”
Source: On Being Human
“The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss
or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,
Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news,
the fitful events;
These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.”
“The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness
“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.”
“The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.”