T Quotes
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“To die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a cowrd; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome, and such a man endures death not because it is noble but to fly from evil”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.”
Source: The Way of the Heart: A Study of Contemplative Prayer and Inner Devotion
“to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”
“To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.”
Source: Sever
“To die! - what does it mean? When we speak of death we are only dreaming.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“To die whole,
riddled with nothing
but desire for it,
is like breakfast
after love.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
“To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.”
Source: Tales of Power
“To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.”
Source: Madame Butterfly
“To die with honour, to die standing tall, to die for an ideology, to die for a cause—these are all foolish thoughts! The only honourable thing for every living person is to make every effort and develop every strategy to avoid dying, and never to kill!”
“To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.”
Source: Daughter of Earth
“To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.”
“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
“To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.”
“To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.”
“To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.”
“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”
“To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.”
“To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.”
Source: A New England girlhood
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
“To differentiate between symptoms of depression and anxiety secondary to ME/CFS and psychiatric disorders, ask the patient what they will do the next time they have a “good day”. A patient with ME/CFS will have a long list of ideas whereas a patient with major depressive disor- der will say they can not think of anything they enjoy any more. Patients with an anxiety disorder will have a list of reasons why they won’t be able to do or enjoy the activities.”
“To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.”
“To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?”
Source: Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols
“To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.”
“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.”
“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.”
“To disagree doesn’t mean to hate.”
“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more
“To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.”
“To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.”
“To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.”
“To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.”
“To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
“To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.”
Source: Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
“To disassociate darkness from evil.”
Source: San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“To disavow destiny is to write destiny.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.”
Source: The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River
“To discern is to separate the noise of desire from the voice of wisdom.”
“To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.”
“To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.”
“To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!”
“To Disclose or Not Disclose
I just saw a poster: "Dirty laundry goes here (laundry basket) not here (Facebook logo)."
Online and in person, withholding personal information is a discreet way of regulating what people learn, think, and know about you. There are times when keeping it real and keeping it honest will reveal your authenticity and trustworthiness, but there are other times, however, when things are better left unsaid or locked away. Hence the term TMI, meaning "Too Much Information!" Discretion is part of "keeping it real" in professional (and self) respect.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“To discouraged women, radical feminists offered an analysis of the movement's failure. More importantly, they offered a solution: Reform can never produce justice for women, they maintained. The problems are rooted too deeply for halfway measures to address them adequately. Salvation lay in revolution-a revolution so profound that it extended beyond politics into human sexuality itself.
According to radical feminists, only a fundamental difference between the sexes could explain the perpetual oppression of women.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”