T Quotes
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“The rituals or process that your relatives do, while you are gone, is for the peace of your soul is Mokshaplasty. You don’t have a control over it. Resort to eternal bliss while you are still alive. The roadmap is called Mokshagraphy. You can control it the way you want, before you are gone forever.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“The Ritz Hotel was grand, sophisticated, and established, unlike me. The only thing we had in common was façade. Mine may not have been as ornate but it was equally phony. I was presenting myself as an escort; I advertised as one, negotiated like one on the phone, and I identified as one to whoever was interested. I even simulated sex for escort rates.”
Source: Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom
“The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.”
“The rivalry ends here," [Percy] said. "I love you, Wise Girl.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.”
“The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.”
“The rivalry was so intense that English pamphleteers competed with one another to come up with ever more lurid headlines about the Dutch. (My favourite of these: "The Dutch-mens Pedigree; Or, A Relation Shewing How They Were First Bred and Descended froma Horse-Turd Which Was Enclosed in a Butter-Box.)”
“The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.”
“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales':
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers in encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.”
“The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?
Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.”
Source: One hundred poems of Kabir
“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.”
“The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.”
“The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting Algiers Point to New Orleans. He marveled at the crescent shape of New Orleans as the ferry traveled nearly parallel to the curve in the Mississippi River.”
Source: Imogene in New Orleans
“The river carries ages of memories, each ripple, a story, its water, a flowing chronicle of life. The past is reflected in unending motion, a collage of forgotten moments drifting by.”
“The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.”
“The river does not hurry, yet it carries every memory downstream.”
“The river does not rage against the rocks in its path; it simply flows around them, shaping its own course with patience and persistence. Strength is not always about resistance—it is often about adaptability.”
“The river doesn’t ask why it flows. It just flows. Purpose is experience, not explanation.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“The river doesn’t rush to be heard, yet it carves stone. That’s the kind of patience we need now.”
“The river embraces me and guides me to swim inside her and to drink the nectar of love from her bosom. She tells me her secrets and I tell her mine.”
“The river exists in the mountain and valley, yet it never carries its past, nor traces the remains of where it was, in highlands or lowlands. It only flows, carrying time in the present.”
“The river feeds the earth, sunlight breathes life into trees, the winds carry whispers of the flowers, and quiet waters that mirror the sky; in them, I find the song of my soul.”
“The river feeds the earth, sunlight breathes life into trees, winds carry the whispers of the flowers, and quiet waters that mirror the sky; in them, I find the song of my soul.”
“The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.”
“The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.”
“The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it”
Source: Blood of Tyrants
“The river goes around obstacles just as the stars scatter in the sky.”
“The river has a distinct place in the mythologies of the people because in their universe, water is supreme. They know that all rivers are maternal and therefore capable of birthing things.”
Source: An Orchestra of Minorities
“The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains.”
Source: Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
“The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“The river is a moment-to-moment journey of life.”
“The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.”
“The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“The river is everywhere.”
Source: Siddhartha: Siddhartha
“The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.”
Source: The Rock and the River
“The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.”
“The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.”
Source: Leavings: Poems
“The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.”
Source: Snowfed Waters
“The river, it's banks as yet untamed wandered languidly through thickets of rush and papyrus. Ibises waded in the shallows; in the deeps hippos rose and sank slowly like pickled eggs.”
“The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?”
“The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.”
Source: Old Rose and Silver
“The river keeps flowing when it doesn't evade the rocks.”
“The river knows the way to the sea:
Without a pilot it runs and falls,
Blessing all lands with its charity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. "I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!”
Source: Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
“The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.”
“The River Mogami has drowned
Far and deep
Beneath its surging waves
The flaming sun of summer”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
“The river moved low and sullen, like someone who had been cheated and learned to keep her distance.”
Source: The River Beneath the Bazaar
“The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.”