T Quotes
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“To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.”
Source: Political Economy: Reprinted from the Original Edition
“To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.”
“To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.”
“To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere”
“To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions”
“To accept any religion is to accept paying the price to that deity in exchange for a great favour.”
“To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.”
“To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.”
Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
“To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.”
“To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.”
Source: Critical Essays
“To accept duality is to earn identity.”
“To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.”
“To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.”
“To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.”
“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
“To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.”
Source: The Power Elite
“To accept our place as simple human beings—beings who share a world with every seen and unseen creature in this vast community of creation—is to embrace our deepest spirituality.”
Source: Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
“To accept passively an unjust system is to coöperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. Nocoöperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is coöperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. It is a way of allowing his conscience to fall asleep.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“To accept reality is only to encourage it.”
“To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.”
Source: Aphorisms
“To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.”
“To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.”
“To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.”
“To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.”
“To accept the meaninglessness of existence, is to isolate oneself from the world and the imprisoned, mindless actors within it.
By world, I mean the pseudo-sapien world.
For the modern sapien world is the antithesis of wise, and the quintessence of the absurd.”
“To accept the messages, to accept others and love them the way Mary accepts them, means to take the role of a mother - or to partake in it - in the birth of a new world. There is no other way. The experience of pilgrims and parishioners is truly a new experience of togetherness. All who come to this parish community come to love it as their own, feel like members of the large community - the Church - in which Mary is the MOther and each person a beloved child.”
Source: In the School of Love
“To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.”
“To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.”
“To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.”
Source: The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way
“To accept what we can’t do is the first step to doing it.”
“To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.”
“To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.”
“To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.”
“To accept yourself wherever. you are.... And don't think in terms of competition! You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are, if you can be happy there, you have become religious, you have become spiritual. Spirituality knows no competition, spirituality knows no greed, spirituality knows no ambition - because spirituality means desirelessness.”
Source: The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha
“To access your subconscious, is to access your 'higher-self.”
Source: Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“To accompany the tea is a dizzying array of nuts, dried fruits, crunchy chickpeas, and bright candies, all placed elegantly around a magnificent centerpiece of fresh whole fruit....She's very serious about this eating business, especially as there are just the two of us present, and she's laid out enough snacks to feed an entire elementary school.”
Source: Kiss Her Goodbye
“To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision.”
“To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.”
“To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams.”
“To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.”
“To accomplish great things one must not only act, but dream.”
“To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
“To accomplish much you must first lose everything.”