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“You must take care of the body. Body is like a boat. Life is like a river. On this side is the world; on the other side is God. And so, to reach the other side, that is to reach God, you must maintain this boat carefully. You can keep the boat for any length of time in the water; there is no danger. But if the water comes into the boat, then there is danger.”
“You must take care to know once you enter her you are merging worlds. You are reaffirming a sacred agreement of eternal connectivity. Her energy centers will be connected with yours. Your intentions must be the purest to maintain this kind of cosmic sacred connection. You will be connected on every level seen and unseen. You both will become witness to the universe at play. The cosmic etheric dance of devotion. Two existences intermingle creating a third existence of oneness with tantric overtones and harmonics.”
Source: Cosmic Sexuality
“You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.”
“You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.”
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
Source: Life of Pi
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
“You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.”
Source: The Success Principles(TM)
“You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.”
“You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.”
“You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.”
“you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.”
“You must take the risk. You must have faith. The mask you wear is your prison. You cannot be authentic wearing a mask.”
Source: Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams
“You must take the will for the deed.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“You must take this. I hadn't wanted to seem forward and press it upon you without knowing you truly wished to help me. Can you sell it? And I'll bring the rest of my personal jewelry along to provide for us on the way. This is only one of the smaller pieces."
The gold chain and setting flowed into Sheridan's palm. He glanced down at it, turned it over once and managed not to break into ecstatic smiles. He closed his fingers over the stone. "Princess," he said softly, taking her hand and pressing it against his fist, as if he could not bring himself to let her part with the jewel. "Are you quite sure?"
She bit her lip, hesitating, and for one awful moment he thought he had gone too far. Then she looked up and nodded.
He lifted her hand to his lips. "You are a brave and gallant lady.”
Source: Seize the Fire
“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one”
“You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.”
Source: The English Patient
“You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all.”
“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”
Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony
“You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.”
“You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.”
Source: Emperor Mage
“You must tell me about it when you do,' she said. 'When you make love for the first time, I mean. I want to know what you think.'
He glanced away from her, out of the window. An ice-cream parlour, a man with a dog, a tree. How was he going to get out of shopping next week?
'It's so wonderful, it's like,' and she left her mouth open while she thought, and then it came to her, and she smiled, 'it's like colours everywhere.”
Source: The Five Gates of Hell
“You must tell the true story of the Arkstone and the Toltecs — and the
Turanians. Through you and your tale those who are born into humankind
in later years will remember. You will stir their soul memories.”
Source: Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
“You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.”
“You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a little opinion) of his own talents and character.”
Source: Cartas del diablo a su sobrino (Screwtape Letters)
“You must, therefore, know your limits of self-defence; so as not to cross the line of mercy and forgiveness.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.”
Source: The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero
“You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.”
“You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.”
“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches
“You must think I don’t know what’s keeping you up at night. You must think we’re so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isn’t that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anything, really, to escape being human.”
Source: All My Lonely Islands
“You must think I'm a total idiot."
"Nah. I am starting to wonder if you're trying to beat Keefe's record for biggest interspeciesial episode- and if you are, I'm pretty sure you've won. The Great Gulon Incident was epic, but it didn't almost start a war.”
Source: Everblaze
“You must think I'm an awful ruler. One of those spoiled, selfish queens who cares more for her own reputation than the welfare of her people.”
Source: Fairest
“You must think I'm... unchaste."
He didn't laugh at her, or even look amused. "No, I think you're lonely."
"What?" Lonely? "I'm not lonely." She had her duties. She had her relatives. She lived a productive life.
"You kiss like a woman who stands on the outside, always peering in the window of life and wishing she were there, yet never having the guts to demand entrance."
"That's not true." Curse him, it was exactly true.
He paid her no heed. "Those days are over. Whatever you're afraid of, you should be more afraid of me."
He didn't have to insist. She was.
His brows were lowered, his jaw firm, his eyes flinty. "Listen to me. From now on, you're going to be at my side every minute. No matter what happens, no matter how objectionable the events, no matter how unhappy you make yourself, at the end of the day you're going to go home with me. And at night... I'll show you all the wonders of desire. Our nights will be passionate and grand beyond your wildest dreams, and I'll take you to the edge of passion again and again. You'll squirm beneath me and atop of me, you'll touch every inch of my skin, you'll live for my kisses. Until one day you'll wake up and all you can think of is me. Of the pleasure I bring you. Of how it feels when I'm inside you. All the sorrow will fall away, and you'll be mine forever.”
Source: One Kiss From You
“You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.”
“You must think outside the box, Luna.”
“You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.”
“You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.”
“You must thrive to flood the nose and mouth of those who hate you and can't wait to see you fail.”
“You must throw away your bad habits to get good.”
“You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.”
“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
“You must train regularly and there are rarely any shortcuts.”
Source: Training For Ultra: Ultra Running Stories From the Middle of the Pack
“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”
“You must transform your confidence in order to transform your body.”
“You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.”
“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
“You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.”
“You must trust yourself more than you trust anyone else with your money.”
Source: The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying