T Quotes
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“To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.”
Source: Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year
“To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.”
“To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“To be simple is no small matter.”
Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.”
“To be simple is the best thing in the world.”
“To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.”
“To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.”
Source: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
“To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.”
“To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.”
“To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.”
“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.”
“To be slightly evil is to embrace life.”
Source: Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths
“To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)
“To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.”
“To be so at one with one's own destiny that no one will be able to tell the dancer from the dance, that the answer to the question, Who are you? will be the Cardinal's answer, "Allow me ... to answer you in the classic manner, and to tell you a story," is the only aspiration worthy of the fact that life has been given us. This is also called pride, and the true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being"in love with {their} destiny" or whether they "accept as success what others warrant to be so ... at the quotation of the day. They tremble, with reason, before their fate.”
Source: Daguerreotypes and Other Essays
“To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.”
Source: Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen
“To be so lonely
you told yourself you liked to be this way
& almost believed it was true.”
Source: Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
“To be so nurtured; to know day after day only comfort, love; to feel your home a happy place where joy and justice meet--this has always seemed to me the greatest gift imaginable.”
Source: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
“To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.”
“To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing.”
Source: The corrections
“To be sober, we need to be honest. We need to be all the way honest, modified only by kindness.”
Source: Being Sober and Becoming Happy: The Best Ideas from The Director of Spiritual Guidance at Hazelden
“To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.”
“To be social is to be forgiving.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“To be soft, one need to be hard.”
“To be somebody, you must last.”
“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”
“To be someone's inspiration is the biggest goal in my life.”
“To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.”
Source: Green Dolphin Country
“To be soulbroken is to be filled with anguish that is brought on by the loss of our love, our relationship, and ourselves, and, often it is void of validation. If you know this pain, my deepest sympathies to you, not only for your loss but for how you've been hurting.”
Source: Soulbroken: A Guidebook for Your Journey Through Ambiguous Grief
“To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.”
“To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.”
“To be spiritual is to be amazed.”
“To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.”
“To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.”
“To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.”
“To be spiritual, one need not give up the world, but must overcome worldly desires.”
Source: Freedom of Life
“To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive”
Source: What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics
“To be spontaneous does not mean to simply express any urge and indulge every desire. That would be impulsivity. Impulsivity neglects complexity and context, whereas spontaneity considers them.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return
“To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.”
“to be steady in the soul, and free in the spirit”
“to be steady in the soul and wild in the spirit”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“To be still and see the moon, to tear the night and find the light is to sense the path in the pathless dark.”
“To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.”
“To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.”
“To be straight means to be loyal to the truth.”
“To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.”
“To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.”
“To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.”
“To be strong I must first admit that I am weak. And that requires some of the greatest strength imaginable.”