T Quotes
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“To be hungry must be awful.”
“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”
“To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?”
Source: The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)
“To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature”
“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk".”
“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
Source: Table-talk
“To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.”
“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”
Source: Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity
“To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.”
“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
Cicero, Orator, 46 BC
By way of 'Dictator' by Robert Harris, 2015”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Source: Brutus
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
Source: Brutus
“To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.”
“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
“To be immortal and then die”
“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help.”
“To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.”
“To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.”
Source: Wake-up calls
“To be impatient means never really living, being always in the future, in what will happen, but which is after all not yet here. Do not impatient people resemble spirits who are never here in this place, and now, in this very moment, but rather sticking their heads out of life like those wanderers who supposedly, when they found themselves at the end of the world, just looked onward, beyond the horizon? What did they see there? What is it that an impatient person hopes to glimpse?”
Source: The Books of Jacob
“To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.”
“To be in a beast of a musical (I mean it's huge!) gave me a sense of I don't want to say "a sense of confidence" because you already have a sense of that to get out on stage. But I think I just have a better sense of myself. It was a learning process, I really had to conquer a lot of fears and my own little struggles. I feel a little self-empowered, like "bring it on!" Bring on the next thing because if I can conquer this, I can conquer that.”
“To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.”
“To be in a Community means working together to create a better community that responds to everyone's needs. Regardless of age, background or past mistakes, we need to be able to accept and transcend differences; whether from a different region, we need to enable people to communicate openly and effectively to help improve their community. An uncommon sense of safety is necessary if we are to work together towards common goals, a feeling of trust and belonging to this community, and this is what we must fight for. The moment we stop fighting for the needs of our community, that's the moment we lose the sense of community.”
“To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?”
“To be in a long-term state of limbo, not knowing the outcome or length of time waiting, is utterly, shatteringly exhausting.”
Source: Those Who Wait: Finding God in Disappointment, Doubt and Delay
“To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.”
“To be in a place where God’s glory is expressed is to be at the right place”
“To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.”
“To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.”
“To be in a situation characterised by hygge is to be in a state of pleasant wellbeing and security, with a relaxed frame of mind and an open enjoyment of the immediate situation in all its small pleasures - a state one achieves most often with close members of one's social network in a home-like setting. -Judith Friedman Hansen”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.”
“To be in a state of pure consciousness or no-mind does not entail the rejection of or complete detachment from ordinary mental or sensory experience. On the contrary, in a unified state of consciousness, awareness remains established in unbounded silence while simultaneously engaged in the boundaries of everyday activity.”
Source: Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman
“To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour”
“To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be”
“To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.”
“To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?”
Source: An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to which the Words are Applied. By the Rev. Samuel Auscough ..
“To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself.”
Source: Case Study
“To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.”
“To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.”
“To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.”
“To be in Christ - that makes you fit for heaven; but for Christ to be in you - that makes you fit for earth! To be in Christ changes your destination; but for Christ to be in you - that changes your destiny! The one makes heaven your home - the other makes this world His workshop.”
Source: The Saving Life of Christ
“To be in Christ -that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you-that is sanctification.”
“To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.”
Source: Romans