T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.”
Source: Political Thought and Political Thinkers
“To be alive is to be breathing.”
“To be alive is to be embodied. To be embodied is to struggle and thrive and struggle and thrive. This inherent oscillation is our birthright.”
Source: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
“To be alive is to be imperfect, to be on an evolving path toward death, toward the entropic equilibrium of chaos.”
Source: The World of Myth: An Anthology
“To be alive is to be insulted by nature.”
Source: Immortality Is Really Forever
“To be alive is to be missing.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
“To be alive is to get lost in the books, poetry, and the smell of pressed memories for ultimately, they bring us to us. It then becomes a beautiful homecoming.”
“To be alive is to go forth”
Source: The Eyes & the Impossible
“To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.”
“To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.”
“To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.”
Source: One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World
“To be alive makes up for everything; there ought to be fears in my heart, but there aren't; something stronger sweeps them out; something like a wind.”
Source: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
“To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.”
“To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.”
“To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”
Source: Psion
“To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”
Source: Open City
“To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.”
“To be alive──is Power.”
“To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.”
Source: David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)
“To be almost saved is to be totally lost.”
“To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.”
“To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both”
“To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.”
Source: A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960
“To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin. The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others. Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . . . nothing is 'familiar' any longer . . . . I think that unfamiliarity is the most difficult thing to face; one feels rather like Alice in Wonderland after she has nibbled the toadstool that made her grow smaller - and like Alice, one hopes that the process will stop while there is still something left!”
“To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)
“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.”
“To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.”
“To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.”
“To be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.
Is not the sturdy vagabond, sitting beside the road, contemplating the wide and open horizon before him, the absolute master of lands, waters, and even the skies?
What lord of the manor can rival him in power and opulence?
His fiefdom has no limits and his empire no law.
No servitude demeans his bearing, no labor bends his spine to the earth, the earth that he possesses and which gives itself to him in its entirety, in goodness and in beauty.”
Source: Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt
“To be alone was my best interest because needing myself was looking for you”
Source: Soul Song: Poetry and Prose of Awakening to Divine Love
“To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.”
“To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?”
“To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together.
The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love -- the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other.
And now you know the secret.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“To be altarless is to be voiceless”
“To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.”
Source: Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School
“To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.”
“To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.”
“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”
“To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.”
“To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.”
Source: Politics
“To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”
Source: Happy Days
“To be amazing means you have to do amazing things.”
“To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.”
Source: Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School
“To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court”
“To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.”
“To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.”
Source: The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
“To be amiable and cheerful is a good religion for a work-a-day world. We are so busy not killing, not stealing, not coveting our neighbour's wife, we have not the time to be even just to one another for the little while we are together here.”
Source: Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow