T Quotes
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“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.”
“To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.”
“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day”
“To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.”
“To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.”
“To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“To attain spirituality is to realize that the whole universe is one symphony in which every individual is one note. His happiness lies in becoming perfectly harmonious with the symphony of the universe.”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“To attain success, you must learn to conquer fear, for it is often just an illusion. Learn to ignore fear and do not let it control you. Face it with calmness and discipline. Recognize that true strength originates from self-control. By doing so, you build resilience and move closer to your purpose.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.”
“To attain the reality of unity, the believer must undergo deeper and deeper self-forgetting in the remembrance of God. There is no god but God now comes to mean, "there is no existing thing but God." Someone asked Sa'd ad-din Hamuya, "What is God?" He answered, "That which exists is God." The questioner asked, "What is the world?" He answered, "Nothing exists but God." (p. 225)”
Source: Mingled Waters : Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions
“To attain the Self is indeed called the right belief (samkit).”
“To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!”
“To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!”
“To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.”
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
“To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.”
“To attain your goal, you must know how to overcome battles and challenges.”
“To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.”
Source: Annual
“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”
Source: Selected Writings
“To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.”
“To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.”
“To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.”
“To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.”
Source: Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States
“To attempt to force a tomato plant to produce corn is going to result in bad tomatoes and no corn. And how many people are attempting to do the same thing with their lives, all the while wondering why they’re getting bad tomatoes and no corn?”
“To attempt to justify a lie is much like pouring water into a bucket with no bottom while actually thinking that you have a bucket.”
“To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.”
“To attempt to make myself clean is only to become dirtier in the cleaning.”
“To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price-and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.”
“To attempt to sell what you don’t have highlights what you are not and foretells what you will never be.”
“To attempt to separate power from accountability is to understand neither and be hurt by both.”
“To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.”
“To attract attractive people, you must be attractive.”
“To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.”
“To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.”
“To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'”
“To attract money, you must focus on wealth.”
Source: The Secret
“To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough.”
Source: The Secret
“To attract more money, you must be attractive, in the sense that people will want and prefer your products or service over those of your competitior.”
Source: The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty
“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.”
“To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.”
“To attract the flow
We need to open & let go
Once we empty the junk
We can refill with jades
Endeavour to empty
To attract the power of plenty
Flow initialised... get #Mickeymized!”
“To attract the things we love we must transmit love, and those things will appear immediately.”
Source: The Secret
“To attract the wise,
you have to be shrewd.
To attract the skilled,
you have to be talented.
To attract the creative,
you have to be ingenious.
To attract the great,
you have to be extraordinary.”
“To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.”
“To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.”
Source: St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries
“To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.”
“To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.”
Source: This Business of Living
“To avert climate crises, it's important that humanity invests in climate resilience, not just climate adaptation.”