T Quotes
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“To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.”
Source: Aphorisms
“To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.”
Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.”
Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890
“To be saved is here, local and mortal”
“To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.”
“To be saved,” whispered Mama. The words left her mouth like a wish. At that moment I didn’t know why Mama wanted to be saved. She looked peaceful, tangled in her flower-printed sheets.
She closed her eyes again, and I leaned close. “I’ll save you Mama,” I whispered into her ear.”
Source: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
“To be saved, you must call on the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“To be scientifically literate is
to empower yourself to
know when someone else is
full of bullshit.”
“To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.”
“To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know that you are pregnant with a massive potential about to be delivered”
“To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society”
“To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.”
“To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.”
Source: Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills
“To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...
“To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.”
“To be seen and to see another deeply...to be felt and to feel another deeply...to be heard and to hear another deeply...is the beginning of a connection...a sense that brings fulfillment. It is an innate human need to long and be longed for...for this is the silent need ....residing in every human heart...”
“To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.”
Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition
“To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.”
“To be self-compassionate is not to be self-indulgent or self-centred. A major component of self-compassion is to be kind to yourself. Treat yourself with love, care, dignity and make your wellbeing a priority. With self-compassion, we still hold ourselves accountable professionally and personally, but there are no toxic emotions inflicted upon and towards ourselves.”
Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
“To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.”
Source: Speech in Season
“To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.”
“To be selfless is to have a whole self.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“To be selfless, you must first have a Self that you can give up. There is a world of difference between giving up yourself and giving up on your Self.”
Source: The Song of the Void: A Self-Fish Story
“To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.”
“To be sensual is to have a sense of mystery that animates all beings.”
“To be sensual is to lose yourself in the pleasure of the moment. It is to lose yourself in the timelessness of your present desire.”
“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
“To be sensuous means to become aware of the circumference, and to be spiritual means to become aware of the center. Sensuousness is the beginning of spirituality. Become more and more sensuous; that is the way of being alive.”
Source: The Secret of Secrets
“To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.”
“To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."”
“To be set free, turn away from your sins. And return to God of great mercy.”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“To be sexy means to have that special chemistry that arouses others, no matter what you look like. Energy and confidence play a big part, and great skin doesn't hurt.”
“To be sexy, nudes need a little underwear.”
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.”
Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You
“To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.”
“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.”
Source: Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times
“To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be.”
Source: Writing a Novel
“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.”
Source: The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it
“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.”
Source: The Last Essays of Elia
“To be silent for a waterfall means to die! And for people who shout out the truth in all circumstances, it is the same thing to be silent!”
“To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.”
“To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.”
Source: The republic of fools: being the history of the state and people of Abdera, in Thrace. Tr. [from Geschichte der Abderiten] by H. Christmas
“To be silent is to be passive.”
“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.”