T Quotes
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“The tendency to avoid challenges is so omnipresent in human beings that it can properly be considered a characteristic of human nature. But calling it natural does not mean it is essential or beneficial, or unchangeable behavior. It is also natural to defecate in our pants and never brush our teeth. Yet we teach ourselves to do the unnatural until the unnatural becomes itself second nature. Indeed, all self-discipline might be defined as teaching ourselves to do the unnatural. Another characteristic of human nature - perhaps the one that makes us most human - is our capacity to do the unnatural, to transcend and hence transform our own nature.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“The tendency to be grumpy about many things often turns one into a victim. If you want victory, choose gratitude.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.”
“The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.”
“The tendency to cruelty
should be watched in
children and if they
incline to any such
cruelty, they should be
taught the contrary
usage. For the custom
of tormenting and killing
other animals will, by
degrees, harden their
hearts even toward man.
Children should from
the beginning, be
brought up in an
abhorrence of killing or
tormenting living
beings.”
“The tendency to deal with individual citizens exclusively in terms of the abstractions of their class or condition is to strike at the very foundation of American liberty, which was established to safeguard the possibility and the right of escape from such abstractions—the right to become exceptional.”
Source: The Long-Legged House
“The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.”
“The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.”
Source: Character and Opinion in the United States
“The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.”
“The tendency to support enhanced executive power when one’s friends hold the executive branch—a syndrome aptly dubbed ‘‘Situational Constitutionalism’’— is a recurring theme of this book.”
Source: The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
“The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.”
Source: Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
“The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”
“The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”
Source: The Recovery of Ideals
“The tendency to view the diversity of forms as bothersome illusions (maya) to be transcended is a common trap in certain nondual teachings. There is often a desire to move beyond the inconvenient multiplicity of parts back to the oneness of pure awareness. However, this practice of discarding the relative in favour of the absolute only leads to further separation and more walls dividing self from Self. Rather than escaping our parts, we can become curious about their unique vantage points. This presents opportunities for connection and appreciating our shared essence. Completely discarding maya overlooks the value of this multiplicity in allowing the absolute to fully know and express itself. The parts are not obstacles to be overcome, but rather vehicles on the path—the teachers in the schoolhouse we call life. What's in the way, is the way. As Rumi's 'Guest House' poem expresses, each part has come for a reason, bringing gifts to share. Rather than rejecting these 'visitors,' we can open the door wide to welcome their presence. By listening to their wisdom with curiosity and compassion, we can deepen our understanding and connection to the whole.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.”
Source: Eliot's Essays: Top Essays
“The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.”
“The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”
Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse
“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.”
“The tender heart is never stone.
It beats and throbs--a jab--a moan--
With pulsing deep in muscle, bone,
It makes its own desires known.”
“The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.”
Source: Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: with a selection from his writings and correspondence
“The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and...the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.”
“The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.”
“The tender moments, we have pressed between the crisp pages, worn through the sands of time, and sometimes a rose speaks of the silence we shared of the moments that are carefully folded. I dare not rip apart..that which remains beautiful through the passage of time.”
“The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.”
Source: The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese
“The tenderest and most generous minds, when harshly treated, become generally the most inflexible.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5
“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”
“The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.”
Source: Winter Sunshine
“The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.”
“The tenement at 179 [East 93rd Street, NYC] was the first real home I can remember. Until we moved there we had lived like gypsies, never traveling far -- in fact never out of the neighborhood -- but always moving, haunted and pursued by eviction notices, attachments, and glinty-eyed landlord's agents. The Marxes were poor, very poor. We were always hungry. And we were numerous. But thanks to the amazing spirit of my father and my mother, poverty never made any of us depressed or angry. My memory of my earliest years is vague but pleasant, full of the sound of singing and laughter, and full of people I loved.”
Source: HARPO SPEAKS!
“The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.”
“The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.”
“The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.”
Source: Life of Pi
“The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.”
“The tennis world is constantly changing. What's true today may be wrong tomorrow. If you don't make progress, others will and you will be overtaken.”
“The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.”
“The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.”
“The tension between autonomy and expertise had been, at a basic level, fundamental to the Protestant experience itself from the Reformation forward, as the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, increasing literacy, and vernacular translations of the Bible undermined the clerical caste's monopoly on spiritual authority. In the twentieth-century United States, professional specialization, the Progressive emphasis on technical expertise, and simply the ever more complex nature of modern urban life pulled readers toward greater reliance on literary guidance, while the logic of consumerism, rooted in the all-powerful choice to buy or not to buy, further reinforced the notion of reader autonomy.”
“The tension between not being let in and not being let go fixes us. Especially when it's the not-being-let-in that won't let you go. You're held at the threshold. You're turned away, but you can't turn away.”
Source: Be with Me Always: Essays
“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“The tension between preserving constitutional rights and protecting lives remains at the heart of the national conversation. (Unloading the Gun Laws)”
“The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.”
Source: Selected Stories
“The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varying psychological needs to apprehend him in different ways.”
“The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.”
“The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.”
“The tension between them crackled through the air, the electric sort that held his heart in suspension.”
Source: Stronger Than Hope
“The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.”