T Quotes
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“The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.”
“The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.”
Source: Confessions of a dilettante
“The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
“The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.”
“The true solution to a struggling relationship is to wait for your partner to completely change into the person you always wanted them to be.”
“The true source of happiness is within each of us.”
“The true source of our life is our consciousness and awareness, without which we'd just be a robot or a computer with no operator.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think... Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.”
“The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams
“The true source of rights is duty.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.”
“The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.”
“The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: (VI, 507 p.)
“The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“The true spirit follows the light no matter what happens or obstacles are coming their way for the spirit knows that the only way to connect with God and pave the way for higher consciousness is to follow the true path of light”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“The true spirit of Christmas is love”
“The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.”
“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.”
“The true spirit of sociability is to allow others to shine; and as one can only do so by sacrificing oneself, there are few people in the world who feel capable of making such an effort.”
Source: La marquise de Gange
“The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it's the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature.”
“The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.”
Source: Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies
“The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.”
“The true statesman implements policies and empowers the people he represents with the necessary instruments for Nation building, preservation, and prosperity.”
“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”
“The true status of Meditation is “being aware” all the time of our immortality and becoming the truth consciousness with an access to melt, dwell, or breathe in the ecstasy of the universal consciousness forever.”
“The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.”
“The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.”
Source: Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
“The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.”
Source: The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.”
“The true strength of a man is known under pressure.”
“The true strength of a man is measured by how tenderly he teats a woman.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good.”
“The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.”
“The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.”
“The true success is the person who invented himself.”
“The true success is to labour.”
“The true success of a music is measured by how far it travels from where it was created and how many people it impacts, but sometimes the fact that it just touches the lives of a few people makes it very successful in its own right!”
“The true suffering
of the poet is
knowing your death
will be noted.”
“The true Sufi cannot utter any prayer beginning with the word 'I,' for example: 'I want to know Thee better.' For to do this presupposes that there are two beings: the Sufi and Allah. This is the greatest sin. Iblis cried, 'Ana khayrun minhu! (I am better than he is!') The personal pronoun 'I' is the classic Sufi symbol for pride in its extreme form.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.”
“The true sweetness of wine is one flavor”
“The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected...Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.”
“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
“The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.”
“The true taste of a woman is not in her body or beauty, it's in her sensual energy.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”
“The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.”