T Quotes
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“To lift us out of the bog of tradition, superstition and custom, to make us appreciate a multitude of civilizations without renouncing our own, to raise our vision of the world, cultivate our personalities, strengthen our qualities, to make up for our inadequacies, to develop universal moral values in us: these were the aims of our admirable headmistress.”
Source: So Long a Letter
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“To light a lamp as a source of light is about as wasteful of energy as to burn down ones house to roast one's pork.”
“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”
“To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.”
“To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.”
“To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.”
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.”
“To limit money is to limit political power.”
“To limit one’s field of inquiry to the function of an institution in a given social system, with no alternatives considered, provides an infinite number of rationalizations for all the inequalities and inequities of that system.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“To limit questions is to promote ignorance.”
Source: the human key condensed: master
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.”
“To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.”
“To limit this movement to a simple demand for road safety seems nefarious, but that is what has happened.
What was a movement for justice was domesticated into a movement for safety.”
Source: Not All Springs End Winter: Political Economy of Mass Youth Movements in Bangladesh Before, During and Since Shahbag
“To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.”
“To line only for some unknown future is superficial.”
“To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.”
Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel
“To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.”
“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
“To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.”
“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”
“To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.”
Source: The Listening Book
“To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.”
“To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.”
“To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements, or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, to welcome, to accept.
Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that, those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their own true selves. Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.”
Source: Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
“To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.”
“To listen to a person is not passive.”
Source: Anything Is Possible
“To listen to children dissect one another in public and respond with weak words is not helpful. Wait for an opportunity, catch the malefactors in the act, and then label their behavior for what it is: “That’s cruel.” If it continues, you may have to stop the car and declare, “I have to ask you to stop talking about Isabel that way. It is unbearably cruel and I cannot tolerate it.” Your child and your child’s classmates should know that you do not condone their horrible treatment of one another and will not collude silently with it.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)”
Source: Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing
“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.”
“To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“To listen to the Lord is turn from the wrong way.”
“To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.”
“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.”
“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well”
“To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.”
“To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.”
“To little men, gods send little things.”
“To live
On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
This is to be a trickster; and to filch
Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
Plain folks call "Theft.”
“To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.”
“To live - is that not enough?”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“To live a better life, you really just have to get stuck into the failure, and the mess, and the confusion, and the hell of what's happening right now. You have to get more familiar with failure. You have to take failure to a show. You have to buy it a steak and kiss it on the mouth. That's how you heal. That's how you make better decisions in the future. So you have to apply for a boat load of jobs. And you have to get turned down for a boat load of jobs. You have to relapse in your recovery and you have to fall all the way back down again. We all do it and we all suffer and hate ourselves and declare ourselves fuck ups, and losers, and space wasters, and nonsense cobblers, and mistake squids, and we lie down on the floor and give up for awhile. And then sometime later, when the shame and the sadness have worn off a bit and we start to feel a bit peckish, we get up, dust off, and we go get 40 chicken nuggets and start the process all over again. And this time we know more. We know where the traps are and we know more of what we're up against. And we're tougher this time around.”
Source: How to Come Alive Again: A guide to killing your monsters
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
“To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.”
“To live a dispassionate and cultured life in the open air of ideas, reading, dreaming and thinking of writing--a life so slow it constantly verges on tedium, but pondered enough never to find itself there.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet