T Quotes
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“To be honorable, you have to make sacrifices for others.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.”
“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!”
“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson
“To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.”
Source: The Crazy Years
“To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.”
“To be human is a deadly sin of person who is mortal.”
“To be human is erroneous.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“To be human is hard enough. Don’t make it harder for yourself.”
Source: Not Here to Be Liked
“To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.”
Source: Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing
“To be human is the right religion.”
“To be human, is to act human, and to act human, is to stand up to all forms of inhumanity.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.”
Source: The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
“To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.”
“To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.”
Source: In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”
“To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.”
“To be human is to be ‘heart led’ and valiantly vulnerable; lion-hearted and confident in what can be offered to you and what you can give in return. Insecurity is something to absorb in order to progress; much of the adventure in life is the ‘not knowing’ of what is next, and it takes distinct bravery to get to a place where you are willing to be at ease with the mystery of what’s to come.”
Source: Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose
“To be human is to be in a story.”
“To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.”
“To be human is to be lost in the woods.”
Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow
“To be human is to be vulnerable. Sometimes rituals and faith help us feel a little less so.”
Source: Cape of Storms
“To be human is to be vulnerable. To be human is to have more power than the gods will ever wield”
Source: A Venom Dark and Sweet
“To be human is to be whole, but to fail to see this wholeness.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.”
“To be human is to bleed and break and still choose compassion. But to be a monster, ah, that's the easy part. You just stop feeling.”
“To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.”
“To be human is to catch the falling person.”
“To be human is to change”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.”
“To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.”
“To be human is to want that which we can not have.”
“To be human means to feel inferior.”
Source: Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life
“To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“To be human you must bear witness to justice.”
“To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.”
“To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.”
“To be humble, and like a little child, afraid of taking a step alone, and so conscious of snares and dangers around us as to cry to Him continually to hold us up that we may be safe, is the sure, the infallible, the only secret of walking closely with Him.”
“To be humble and modest does not entail self-derogation or self-humiliation.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“To be humble and say,"I don't know,teach me!"will help manifest the answer and the knowledge of Truth.”
“To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.”
Source: Race Matters
“To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to be truly taught, is to sincerely do. To lead. To start. To achieve. Willingly and urgently doing the work to make change.”
“To be humble is to be teachable.”
“To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.”
Source: Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons