T Quotes
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“The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.”
“The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.”
“The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.”
“The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.”
“The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.”
“the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.”
Source: The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style
“The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.”
“The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.”
“The search for truth begins in your heart.”
“The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.”
“The search for truth in artistic expression is the core of the work in the realistic school of acting.”
“The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.”
“The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.”
“The search for truth is like looking for the footsteps of a flying bird or like the attempt of a frog to embrace the hole in the ground in which he lives. This old Indonesian proverb serves to point to the elusiveness of truth.”
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
“The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .”
“The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.”
“The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.”
“The search for truth looks backward and not forward. Be warned, adventuring is addictive. Extraordinary things are waiting to be discovered. As water eventually wears down stone, the glorious turning of Heaven continues, and even the new priestly caste is powerless before it.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”
Source: Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
“The search for what I need begins when it stops being about the search for what I need.”
“The search för love, joy, silence, truth, freedom or God is really a search for a union with the whole. We are brought up by a society, civilization and religion in such a way that we are given a false identity. We are all deceived by powerful people, who depend on lying and cheating. They have been cheating for centuries to be able to accumulate money and power, and they are afraid of allowing anybody to discover the truth.
The whole business of the politicians, the priests, the establishment, the status quo, the vested interests, the education system, the media and the rich depend on people who are gullible and ready to be deceived. From the very childhood these people creates such situations that the child becomes aware that if he wants to survive in the world he has to compromise his truth. If the child says the truth he will be getting into trouble.
By the time he is strong enough to be truthful hehas lost all sense of truth. The lies have gone so deep in him that they have become unconscious, so that it has become almost impossible to get rid of them. That is the whole process of a man searching for truth: to undo what the society has done to him.
You have to be reborn, and you will have to become aware that the ego is a false identity imposed on you. You are not separate at all from the whole. You are part of the organic whole. And to know it brings great joy, because when you are not a separate entity, then how can anxiety and anguish exist? Then life becomes a joy. Then there is freedom without any fear.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“The search is in the doing.”
“The search is more important than the destination”
“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.”
“The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton
“The search of success doesn't happen in happiness ; a bit of sorrow, a bit of failure, and the feeling of rise again is responsible to give you one”
“The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.”
“The search party became zombie silhouettes in shafts of early-morning light, yawning, despondent, and halfway home when a boy’s scream pierced the fog—“OVER HERE!”—and everybody ran.”
Source: Fallout Dreams
“The search that had defined so much of my life was transforming into a different kind of journey – one of integration, understanding, and eventually, inner peace, acceptance, and letting go of past hurts, loss, and trauma – simply appreciating the present moment. What had begun as a quest for origins was becoming something far more profound: a meditation on the nature of forgiveness, the elasticity of human connection, and the possibility that even the deepest wounds might, with time and courage, become sources of wisdom rather than only pain.”
– The Kintsugi Poet”
Source: The Kintsugi Poet: A Memoir—Blood Memory, Secrets, and Identity
“The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.”
“The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.”
“The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”
“The searing light of morning
Asks unwelcome questions,
Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.”
“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”
Source: On Stranger Tides
“The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!”
Source: Sammlung
“The seas are wide and flow together. They have no borders and have room enough for all fish.”
Source: الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل
“The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.”
“The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.”
“The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short.”
“The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.”
“The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.”
“The season for sailing. Already the chattering swallow
returns with the slender west wind.
Meadows bloom, and the boiling waves of the sea,
whipped by gales, are smooth and silent.
Come then, sailor, haul in the anchors and loosen the hawsers,
and sail with all the canvas flying.
It is Priapos, god of the harbor, who warns you now:
set out from this port for foreign cargoes.”
“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.”
“The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul.”
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness
“The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.”