T Quotes
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“To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.”
“To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.”
“To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.”
Source: Lazarre
“To see men suffer had become for the former equestrienne a source of sensual delight.”
Source: The Master Masochist: Tales of a Sadistic Mistress
“To see more is to become more.”
“To, see my cosmic face. Meet me with grace. I give you all the space - Divine Timing”
Source: Coming Home
“To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me.”
“To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.”
“To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.”
“To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“To see one at fault when he is without fault is raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others).”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.”
Source: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
“To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.”
“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”
Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
“To see ourselves as we truly are—a wisp of love itself—is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace. If we are to be the new human, we must begin by embracing love, which always seeks to incarnate itself. Love is enfleshed everywhere. Everywhere the Holy One is shouting and whispering, ‘Let me love you.’ And all that is asked of us is to receive. In reality, that is our life’s work. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less.”
“To see people as more important than traditions, beliefs and disbeliefs, is what turns an animal into a human.”
Source: See No Gender
“To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the Reality. Be clear and quiet; alert and detached, all else will happen by itself.”
“To see result, get to work, keep working to make it work.”
“To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.”
“To see Snow Flower's mother eat that meat was something I'll never forget. She had been raised to be a fine lady and, as hungry as she was, she did not tear into the food as someone in my family might. She used her chopsticks to pull apart slivers of the pork and lift them delicately to her lips. Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less that a cultivated woman.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.”
Source: Saint Denis
“To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.”
Source: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
“To see somebody give himself the middle finger is to see mental illness.”
Source: Head Fake
“To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves of gold light - this is the miracle of enlightenment.”
“To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.”
“To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!”
“To see something marvellous with your own eyes –that’s wonderful enough.
But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you’ll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold an incomplete half of it, and that it won’t ever really exist as a whole until you’re together, talking or thinking about that moment... that’s worth more than one plus one. It’s worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can’t even imagine it.
I think I’d rather die than lose those memories.’
- "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds”
“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.”
“To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.”
“To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.”
“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.”
Source: The Illustrated West with the Night
“To see that people appreciate the work that I put in to make these songs for them, that's what makes me care. I don't care about being Fetty Wap.”
“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
Source: Gifts
“To see the absurdity of racism, some people first had to be blind.”
“To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.”
“To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world”
“To see the beautiful and mystical in the other worlds, one first must see the beauty of one's soul”
Source: The Silence Between the Sighs
“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”
“To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!”
“To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.”
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition
“To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special.”
“To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.”
“To see the dawn of a new beginning, You have to make a move in the Night.”
“To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.”
“To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.”
“To see the farm is to leave it.”
“To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.”
Source: The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
“To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind