T Quotes
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“There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.”
“There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.”
Source: Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr
“There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.”
“There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...”
Source: The Scarlet Ibis
“There is within the hearts of people a deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they were not bound by apathy, by ignorance, by fear. It is the job of the peacemakers to inspire them from their apathy, to dispel their ignorance with truth, to allay their fear with faith that God's laws work - and work for good.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.”
Source: The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
“There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.”
“There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
“There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.”
“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”
Source: Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South
“There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.”
Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation
“There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.”
“There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is ‘Gnan’, (true) Knowledge.”
“There is yet a hope.”
“There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith
“There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinking but that some of its philosophies are also against some basic social, economic and scientific concepts of life as required by the progressive society, comes to the illogical conclusion that all religions similarly thwart the growth of progressive societies... Such people fall easy prey to materialism and denounce all religions without having any definite idea of any religion at all.”
Source: A Comparative Study of the Religions of Today
“There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”
“There is yet another reason for the male to
isolate himself: every man is an island. Trapped
inside himself, emotionally isolated, unable to
relate, the male has a horror of civilization, people, cities, situations requiring an ability to understand
and relate to people.
So, like a scared rabbit, he scurries off, dragging Daddy’s little asshole along
with him to the wilderness, the suburbs, or, in
the case of the “hippie”—he’s way out, Man!—all
the way out to the cow pasture where he can fuck and breed undisturbed and mess around with his beads and flute.”
Source: SCUM Manifesto
“There is yet another surprise for someone coming from the totalitarian East with its rigorously unified press: One discovers a common trend of preferences within the Western press as a whole (the spirit of the time), generally accepted patterns of judgment, and maybe common corporate interests, the sum effect being not competition but unification.”
Source: A World Split Apart: Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University, June 8, 1978
“There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.”
Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.”
Source: The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues
“there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.”
Source: Salt
“there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.
- home”
“There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.”
Source: Paris in April
“There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.”
“There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty little whims. The man you will become is at your mercy.”
Source: Stay Awake
“There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.”
“There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.”
“There is zero chance of being a good person without doing good for others!”
“There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.”
“There is zero evidence for god.”
“There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.”
Source: Skeleton Crew
“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”
Source: Freedom: A Novel
“There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.”
Source: The Acceptance World: Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time
“There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.”
Source: Orations and addresses
“There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.”
Source: G
“There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.”
Source: How to Be a Genius Or the Science of Being Great
“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.”
Source: Victory
“There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.”
“There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
“There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.”
“There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.”
“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”
Source: A Theory of Human Motivation
“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.”
Source: The New Psychohistory
“There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.”
“There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.”