T Quotes
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“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.”
“To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.”
“To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.”
Source: What is Self?: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness
“To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876
“To be forgotten by the one to whom you never forget is the worst thing ever happens.”
“To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!”
“To be forgotten is the fear of all men, the root of unending evils- why we raise others to remember our names, in the hopes that they reach the same livelihood. The chance to atone for that loss is life’s fortune and greatest mistake.”
Source: Those Wyrd and Wonderful
“To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.”
“To be forgotten, is to die a little.”
“To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.”
“To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.”
Source: The Last Continent
“To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.”
“To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.”
Source: My Years as Prime Minister
“To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.”
“To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.”
Source: Here I Stand
“To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.”
“To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.”
“To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.”
Source: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice
“To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.”
“To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“To be free from destruction mindset of sin is to permit the lordship of Christ”
“To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.”
Source: The tragedies of Æschylus
“To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.”
“To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.”
“To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.”
“To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.”
“To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.”
“To be free is often to be lonely.”
“To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.”
“To be free is to be equal, but to be equal is not to be free.”
“To be free is to have achieved your life.”
Source: Memoirs
“To be free is to seek faith.”
“To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day”
“To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.”
“To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...”
“To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ”
“To be free, means to have no master but Nature”
Source: To Be Tried As A Jew
“To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.”
Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately
“To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.”
“To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.”
“To be free of fear is to be full of Love.”
“To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in ‘Us’ whatsoever!”
“To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.”
“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment