T Quotes
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“To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness
“To transform yourself entirely is simple: you must dream, as clearly and lucidly as if it were real, and in that dream you must live a life so entirely that when you wake you will not know if you have awoken from a dream or entered one.”
Source: Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth
“To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.”
“To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile.”
Source: Translating Myself and Others
“To translate is to betray at the borders, it's to cheat, it's to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large.”
Source: At Night All Blood is Black
“To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.”
“To translate the Word we must know two languages; to make it present we must know two epochs. This knowledge cannot be achieved without love.”
Source: Preaching and Congregation
“To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.”
“To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.”
“To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.”
“To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.”
“To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.”
“To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.”
Source: A Prince of Earth
“To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.”
“to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other”
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
Source: Nature
“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.”
“to travel is essential
to grasp the world
but you don't need
to travel the world
to grasp yourself”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.”
Source: Warrior of the Light -
“To travel is to breathe sentience into one's ambitions.”
“To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
“To travel is to live.”
Source: The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
“To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!”
“To travel is to possess the world”
“To travel is to shop.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”
“To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.”
“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. a”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.”
Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
“To travel more is to live more.”
“To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
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The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.”
“To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.”
“To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying”
Source: Owlflight
“To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.”
“To treat an object primarily as part of a network is to assume it can be reduced to that set of qualities and relations that it manifests in this particular network.”
Source: Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures
“To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.”
Source: The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
“To treat disease you need medical license,
To treat injustice being human is enough.
To fly a plane you need pilot's license,
To lift up society being human is enough.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.”
Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
“To treat my first multiple, as to raise my first child, I had to commit myself deeply to the experience in order to tolerate the uncertainty, fear, pain, and intensity.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.”
Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville
“To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.”
“To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons.”
Source: After Virtue
“To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.”
“To Tree’s surprise, e could still feel the blade of Univervia that was on the deer’s tongue. And the feelings that came at Tree were fast, intense and surprising. The whole blade lay languid, surrendering as the tongue mashed the strands of grass up to the roof of the doe’s mouth. Then the deer twisted the grass sideways and ground teeth into the grass. As the grass was destroyed, each cell popped and gave shots of grass life-force into the hungry deer, in little pops of ecstatic release. The whole thing happened as swiftly as a string of firecrackers going off into light and smoke, leaving behind a dull residue that gave no sense of the evanescent beauty that had been enchanting the air only moments before. Tree felt this chunk of Univervia embrace willful dissolution and then suddenly all these little pieces that had been integrated into Univervia were separated into something like ananda, the joy which powers the universe and then... then the grass was deer.”
Source: Tree
“To trek a heart is equivalent of trekking a thousand mountains.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.”