T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.”
“to be learning something is the greatest of pleasures of mankind, however small their capacity for it; the reason of the delight in seeing the picture is that one is at the same time as learning— gathering the meaning of things”
Source: Poetics
“To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“To be led by the Holy Spirit and to be totally filled with Him is a privilege reserved for every believer.”
“To be left all abandoned,
is a ruinously aching feeling.
Your heart breaks all over again,
Just as it starts healing.”
Source: Heart and Soul
“To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.”
“To be left alone in thought is
A gift and a curse
Depending on the season, rhyme
Or verse”
Source: Wildflower Tea: A Journal for Daydreamers
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.”
“To be less than you are is so easy: even a child needs no lessons in this.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.”
“To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.”
“To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened.”
“To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.”
“To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.”
Source: Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective
“To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.”
“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”
Source: Becoming Human
“To be lonely is to have lost the enjoyed fellowship with God”
“To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?”
“To be looked at, to be seen, however fleetingly, is to exist.”
Source: Beings
“To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.”
“To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.”
Source: The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
“To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.”
“To be loved and to love, takes courage. To be fully seen is incredibly rare and breathtaking. We lower our masks and see a celestial inner being. It is our full self -- the supernova as well as the black holes. Our fears and doubts. Our anger and joy...This is love.”
Source: Blue Clouds: A Collection of Soul’s Creative Intelligence
“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”
Source: On Love
“To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. Remember that: I know how black it looks today, for you.”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body.”
Source: The Daughters' War
“To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which has had no experience of attack, is to enter an unfortified and ungarrisoned city. Education, family feeling, the sense of duty, the family, are strong sentinels, but there are no sentinels so vigilant as not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen to whom nature, by the voice of the man she loves, gives the first counsels of love, all the more ardent because they seem so pure.”
Source: La dame aux camélias
“To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which has had no experience of attack, is to enter an unfortified and ungarrisoned city. Education, family feeling, the sense of duty, the family, are strong sentinels, but there are no sentinels so vigilant as not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen to whom nature, by the voice of the man she loves, gives the first counsels of love, all the more ardent because they seem so pure.
The more a girl believes in goodness, the more easily will she give way, if not to her lover, at least to love, for being without mistrust she is without force, and to win her love is a triumph that can be gained by any young man of five-and-twenty. See how young girls are watched and guarded! The walls of convents are not high enough, mothers have no locks strong enough, religion has no duties constant enough, to shut these charming birds in their cages, cages not even strewn with flowers. Then how surely must they desire the world which is hidden from them, how surely must they find it tempting, how surely must they listen to the first voice which comes to tell its secrets through their bars, and bless the hand which is the first to raise a corner of the mysterious veil!”
Source: La dame aux camélias
“To be loved by God is to be loved for who you are. To love God is to place no boundaries on who you love...Whether or not I believe in the God of my ancestors, I see God in everyone.”
Source: 19 Love Songs
“To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.”
Source: On Love: A Novel
“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.”
“To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.”
“To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.”
“To be loved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.”
“To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.”
“To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.”
“To be loved is very demoralizing”
“To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.”
Source: Prose and poetry
“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”
Source: The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-day Mindfulness Retreat
“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”
Source: The Return of the Native
“to be loved, was just to be watched”
Source: Brutes
“To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.”
Source: Imperial Palace
“To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook