T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.”
Source: I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to find all the love, approval and appreciation you ever wanted
“Thinking that someone is wrong is a very common way of being wrong.”
“Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you - these are foolish thoughts of people who are bound again and again to birth, death and rebrith for thousands and thousands of incarnations.”
“Thinking that we can provide a light to our path is assuming that we have the batteries for a flashlight that we never had.”
“Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.”
“Thinking that you partner simply is a certain way conveniently removes you from the picture and leaves little room for you to change or repair the relationship. The usual escalation goes from some particular incident to trend thinking (she always, he never) and from there to essential character (she just is cold, he just is a child). Once you're convinced you're dealing with a character issue, you can do little but plead with your partner to change who they are. Good luck with that.”
“Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.”
“Thinking the bad instead of the good, defaulting to disaster instead of joy, letting the world infect you. And you know better. That's no way to live.”
Source: After the People Lights Have Gone Off
“Thinking the word makes wise.”
“Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!”
“Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest.”
Source: Before We Say Goodbye
“Thinking, thinking—a wheel I cannot stop; pure want of sleep it is that turns it.”
Source: The Piazza Tales
“Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. It should be something quite different. Thinking should be a terrifying process. When the earth thinks, whole towns crumble to the ground and thousands of people die.
Thinking: raising boulders, hollowing out valleys, preparing tidal waves at sea. Thinking like a town: that's to say: eight million inhabitants, twelve million rats, nine million pints of carbon dioxide, two billion tons. Grey light. Cathedral of light. Din. Sudden flashes. Low-lying blanket of black cloud. Flat roofs. Fire alarms. Elevators. Streets. Eighteen thousand miles of streets. 145 million electric light bulbs.”
Source: The Book of Flights
“Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.”
Source: At Her Feet: Powering Your Femdom Relationship
“Thinking thought to be a body wearing language as clothing or language a body of thought which is a soul or body the clothing of a soul, she is veiled in silence. A veiled, unavailable body makes an available space.”
Source: Trimmings
“Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.”
“Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”
“Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.”
Source: Human Happiness
“ThiNKing Too MucH caN DisTurbs Your Other ImPortaNt StraTegies :p SO StoP thiNking taKe ActiOn :p”
“Thinking Too Much can Disturbs Your Other Important Strategies, SO Stop thinking take Action”
“Thinking too much only makes problems bigger.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.”
“Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.”
“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”
“Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum”
“Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.”
“Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.”
“Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.”
“Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.”
Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
“Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Thinking you can do something and being able to do something you think about those are two different things. Perception is not always the reality. All if not everyone has good and better plan until execution. Winners are not just thinkers but are doers who some of them failed several times before perfecting it.”
“Thinking you don’t have unhealthy patterns is an unhealthy pattern in itself. And everyone has something unhealthy from their childhood. If you don’t deal with it, it can ruin your life.”
Source: Summer and the City
“Thinking you know me without knowing yourself brings a smile to my face.”
“Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.”
“Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Thinking you're smart and trying to outsmart me are different, and you're not good at either.”
“Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.”
“Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.”
“Thinking yourself superior to you is not harmful to others but thinking yourself inferior to others is harmful to you”
“Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. “Good book?” he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,” out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.”
“Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”
“Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.”
“Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.”
“Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas”
Source: The Way of Initiation
“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”
“Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.”
Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel