T Quotes
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“That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.”
“That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.”
“That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.”
Source: In this corner: selected poems, 1963-1983
“That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.”
Source: Now or never: the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, excited & directed ...
“That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“That which one fears becomes one's master.”
“That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.”
“That which one prepares for can still break them, but that which one does not anticipate will surely crush them.”
“That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?”
Source: Poems
“That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.”
Source: King Lear
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.”
Source: The Works of John Locke: Some thoughts concerning education. An examination of P. Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God. A discourse of miracles. Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony, first earl of Shaftesbury. Some familiar letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends
“That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.”
“That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources
“That which reduces ego is considered knowledge of the Enlightened Ones (Vitraagi Gnan). And the ego that is reduced through conduct and rituals is considered to be according to God’s special directives (agna). But (actually) the ego has increased! That is the very misery!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“That which remains to be sensed in the carnival of emotions, that which is longing to be beheld as a fiesta of colors, that which calls to be felt for unseen, unknown, mysterious it stayed from the beginning of time, in it there lives a splendor eternal....”
“That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and therefore the highest beauty is forever vegetative; and the same is true for morality and love.”
“That which removes the egoism and 'my-ness' is the true instrument.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.”
“That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin, written by himself to a late period, and continued to his death by W.T. Franklin. Comprising the private correspondence and public negotiations of dr. Franklin and a selection from his works
“That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.”
“That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.”
Source: Outline of Occult Science
“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?
And is it not a dream which none of you re member having dreamt, that built your city and fashioned all there is in it?
Could you but see the tides of that breath you would cease to see all else,
And if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound.
But you do not see, nor do you hear, and it is well.”
“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”
Source: Call to Greatness
“That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin”
Source: Unto this Last
“That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.”
Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
“That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.”
Source: Trusting God
“That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“That which shrinks must first expand.”
Source: 道德经
“That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.”
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly understood, had received its deathblow at Mr. Darwin's hands. For the teleological argument runs thus: an organ or organism (A) is precisely fitted to perform a function or purpose (B); therefore it was specially constructed to perform that function.”
Source: Criticism on "The Origin of Species"
“That which sufficeth is not little.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“That which takes effect by chance is not an art.”
“That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.”
Source: Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973
“That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.”
“That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm,' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth.”
“That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.”
“That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.”
“That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.”
Source: Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers: Written in testimony to the present dispensation of God through them to the world that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-inclined encouraged, and the truth, and its innocent friends rightly represented
“That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment. ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters.... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged?”
“That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“That which the truth nourishes should thrive.”
“That which thou has promised must thou perform”
“That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.”
“That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.”
“That which two will, takes effect.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“That which was cast into the sea in the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel.”
Source: Les miserables
“That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.”