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“You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.”
“You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!”
Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.”
Source: How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.
As long as man loves a phantom in the sky more than he loves his fellow man, there will never be peace upon this earth; so long as man worships a Tyrant as the "Fatherhood of God," there will never be a "Brotherhood of Man."
You must make the choice, you must come to the decision. Is it to be God or Man? Churches or Homes—preparation for death or happiness for the living?
If ever man needed an example of the benefit of the one against the other, he need but read the pages of history for proof of how religion retarded progress and provoked hatred among the children of men.
When theology ruled the world, man was a slave. The people lived in huts and hovels. They were clad in rags and skins; they devoured crusts and gnawed bones; the priests wore garments of silk and satin; carried mitres of gold and precious stones, robbed the poor and lived upon the fat of the land!
Here and there a brave man appeared to question their authority. These martyrs to intellectual emancipation slowly and painfully broke the spell of superstition and ushered in the Age of Reason and the Dawn of Science.
Man became the only god that man can know.
He no longer fell upon his knees in fear.
He began to enjoy the fruits of his own labor.
He discovered a way to relieve himself from the drudgery of continuous toil; he began to enjoy a few comforts of life—and for the first time upon this earth he found a few moments for happiness. It is far more important to learn how to live than to learn how to pray.
A new day and a new era dawned for him. His labors produced enormous dividends. He looked at the sky for the first time and saw that it was blue! He searched the heavens and found no God. He no longer feared the manifestations of nature.”
Source: An Atheist Manifesto
“You are to make your own way prosperous...Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“You are to me, a jasmine-scented morning.
At night, a nightingale with a sweet song.
With you, the sun rises, and sadness leaves.
With you, the moon comes and lights my nights,
And the dense night is dense no more,
For our feelings shine as the strands of light.
Something passes deep in my veins,
and an ocean wells in my eyes.
There, I find the pearls of my soul.”
“You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.”
“You are to me,
what wind is to dry leaves.
The reason for me to fall,
the reason for me to fly.”
“You are to set your own value, communicate that value to the world, and then not settle for less. Sound daunting? That's just because it takes you out of your comfort zone. You have got to stop being an obstacle on your own path to wealth and security and happiness. You must understand that valuing yourself is well within your control.”
Source: Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
“You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.”
“You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not waste it.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You are to weak you need a prowl to protect you... I mean that A Prowl must be your friend (get it?? Prowl film!)”
“You are today where your decisions have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your decisions will take you. If you really want to know who you are now, take a tour about the decisions you made some years back.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.”
“You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.”
“You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.”
Source: Effortless
“You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.”
“You are too alive to bury yourself at this age, Jade. Don't do it - it won't work anyway.”
Source: Gold Train
“You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.”
Source: You Slay Me
“You are too free and untamable to be labeled.”
“You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else's.”
Source: Half a War
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota.”
Source: Birds of America: Stories
“You are too immersed in the truth, my friend, you have become a boring person; your soul is impoverished! You need to get into some dreams, get away from reality a little, you need a foggy night; you need to get rich with dreams in the fog!”
“You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.”
“You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.”
Source: The Lost Sisterhood
“You are too kind.” Her voice dripped with sarcasm. “But what has marriage to offer me that I don’t already have?”
There were many ways to answer that question, but having care for her innocence, Lachlan refrained from the blunt one. One glance at that beautiful face and lush body, and he need look no further for a reason why the lass should be wed: swiving. And lots of it.”
Source: Highlander Unchained
“You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
Overhead Tinker Bell shouted "Silly ass!" and darted into hiding.”
Source: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy
“You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.”
“You are too powerful to be intimidated by fears. Face your fears, fearlessly.”
“You are too romantic! We have been dwelling in Arcadia my green girl: the rest of the world is not so golden as this retired spot. Only in fantasy does every circumstance conspire to make it inevitable that two people should fall in love! We should hardly have been more isolated had be been cast on a desert island together.”
Source: Venetia
“You are too sensitive", says the emotionally immature ignorant without empathy.”
“You are too silly to fear the shame of being silly while trying.”
“You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.”
“You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. You say you want to travel the path, but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end. Money, fame, power, lavishness, or carnal pleasure - whatever it is that one holds most dear in life, one should dispose of that first.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“You are too young, I think, to understand yet the nature of desire. You know what it is to want, perhaps even to yearn, but true desire is something else entirely.”
Source: The Readymade Thief
“You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.”
Source: David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)
“You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country (Australia), mate.”
“You are touching so many people's lives. You are a Sunflower. You bring hope to people. You are a Rose. You inspire one and all in the World”
“You are transformed and purified through the sufferings, chosen voluntarily, for achieving a greater purpose in life.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“You are transformed by beholding, not by working.”
Source: 100 Days of Favor
“You are transformed when you go through an emotional shift, dive into it, and allow yourself to be immersive in the holy dance. There grows a deep longing, a heightened awareness, and a sacred selflessness. Slowly, you become a lamp of light for the world.”
“You are transmitters. Everywhere you are sitting in meditation you are transmitting vibrations, do you know that ? At that time if you are thinking say of your jobs and your other things which you have been thinking before, the transmission is poorer. Think of love. Think of the whole country, think of the whole world at that time. You are transmitters of these waves of love, and love will flow from you.”
“You are trapped in you, the beam said.
Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought.”
Source: Liberation Day
“You are trapped within the illusions you have created for yourself.”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus
“You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.”
“You are travelling in a vehicle. Another vehicle is moving alongside yours. Sometimes your vehicle is ahead, sometimes that vehicle is ahead. Then comes the separation. That vehicle moves to a different route. You feel slightly heartbroken even though you didn’t even see who the occupants of that vehicle were. Why?
Because you are a soul. You don’t have to stay attached to just your own body. You can get attached to any other entity and feel its emotions. When you are travelling in a vehicle, your soul starts feeling emotions of your vehicle. Your vehicle feels heartbroken, not you.”
“You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.”
“You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!
You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra