T Quotes
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“To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.”
“To be a human is to be destroyed.”
“To be a human it's necessary to carry out the requirements of civilization and the requirements of civilization are reason and compassion.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“To be a human who resembles the divine is to become responsible for the beautiful, for its observance, its protection, and its creation. It is a challenge to believe that this right is ours.
Wonder, then, is a force of liberation. It makes sense of what our souls inherently know we were meant for. Every mundane glimpse is salve on a wound, instructions for how to set the bone right again. If you really want to get free, find God on the subway. Find God in the soap bubble.
Me? I meet God in the taste of my gramma's chicken. I hear God in the raspy leather of Nina Simone's voice. I see the face of God in the bony teenager bagging my groceries. And why shouldn't I? My faith is held together by wonder—by every defiant commitment to presence and paying attention. I cannot tell you with precision what makes the sun set, but I can tell you how those colors, blurred together, calm my head and change my breath. I will die knowing I lived a faith that changed my breathing. A faith that made me believe I could see air.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.”
Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...
“To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. This kind of critical and democratic sensibility flies in the face of any policing of borders and boundaries of "blackness", "maleness", "femaleness", or "whiteness".”
Source: Race Matters
“To be a Jew is a destiny”
Source: And Life Goes on
“To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty”
Source: The Mortal Storm
“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.”
“To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.”
“To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?”
“To be a killjoy is often to be assigned as being emotional, too emotional; letting your feelings get in the way of your judgment; letting your feelings get in the way. Your feelings can be the site of a rebellion. A feminist heart beats the wrong way; feminism is hearty.”
Source: Living a Feminist Life
“To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.”
“To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.”
“To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.”
“To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times”
“To be a leader, is to be human.”
Source: Grayscale: A Memoir of an Introverted Leader
“To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically”
Source: The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters
“To be a leader means to be able to move masses”
Source: Mein Kampf
“To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.”
Source: Leadership is an Art
“To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.”
“To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection”
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.”
“To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.”
Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
“To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.”
Source: Angels' Blood
“To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.”
“To be a lesser man is a choice, not a destiny.”
“To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.”
“To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.”
“To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.”
“To be a light on a hill we must be a people on our knees.”
“To be a light on a hill we must be a people on our knees. We become a light when we realize that we are not, and that any such light is imparted to us by the great God before whom we kneel. And as a gathered nation bowed on bended knee the darkness is exiled, the hill is ascended and its peak seized, the beacon is reignited in a burst of eternal light, and the people residing in the darkness of distant lands catch a glimpse of its ascending glory. And in the spectacle of hope ablaze, the people of distant lands now stand bathed in a light radiating out of a nation that bent its knee before a mighty God and climbed a hill with an inextinguishable torch.”
“To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you're not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.”
“To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!”
“To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.”
“To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.”
“To be a lover of the moon and stars, to chase the sunsets and gaze at stars, and yet to thirst for the opening dawn is to find the light of transformation.”
“To be a lover of the moon and stars, to chase the sunsets and stare at stars, and yet to thirst for dawn to break, is to find the light of transformation.”
“To be a lover of the moon and stars, to chase the sunsets and stare at the stars, and yet to thirst for dawn to break, is to find the light of transformation.”
“To be a lover of the moon, to chase the sunsets and stare at stars, and yet to thirst for dawn to break, is to find the light of transformation.”
“To be a male is a matter of chance, to be a man is a process indeed”
“To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman”
“To be a man is to be a nonconformist.”
“To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.”
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.”
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”
“To be a man of action may be honorable, but to be a dead man of action profits you nothing.”
Source: The Shadow's Servant
“To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.”
“To be a man, to live here in this world, is to be put on trial”
Source: Practice in Christianity
“To be a man was to be responsible. It was as simple as that. To be a man was to build something, to try to make the world about him a bit easier to live in for himself and those who followed.
You could sneer at that, you could scoff, you could refuse to acknowledge it, but when it came right down to it, Conn decided it was the man who planted a tree, dug a well, or graded a road who mattered.”
Source: Conagher