Tagore, Rabindranath : Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Tagore, Rabindranath : I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Tagore, Rabindranath : The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Tagore, Rabindranath : It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere, French playwright and actor, 1622-1673Service: I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Tagore, Rabindranath : Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Talmud, The : Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
Talmud, The : Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.
Talmud, The : The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
Tan, Amy : If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Tasimi, Arthur : Morally tainted money is worth less than the value.
Tawney, R.H. : Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
Taylor, A.J.P. : There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
Teague, Freeman : Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord : Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Teresa, Mother : To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Teresa, Mother : One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Teresa, Mother : I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
Teresa, Mother : Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
Teresa, Mother : The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Teresa, Mother : Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
Terkel, Studs : Do you know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
Tew, Robert : Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.
Tew, Robert : The pain of holding on is always greater than the pain of letting go.
Tew, Robert : Stop breathing life into the past. It died for a reason.
Tew, Robert : The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.
Tew, Robert : Sometimes what you fear the most is the very thing that will set you free.
Tew, Robert : Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
Tew, Robert : Sometimes you have to love people from a distance and give them the space and time to get their minds right before you let them back into your life.
Tew, Robert : All relationships are important because they reveal the true nature of the relationship we have with ourselves.
Tew, Robert : Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
Thackeray, William Makepeace : The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Thackeray, William Makepeace : People hate as they love, unreasonably.
Thackeray, William : People hate, as they love, unreasonably.
Thatcher, Margaret : It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Thatcher, Margaret : If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
The, Motto Of : Citius, altius, forties - Swifter, higher, stronger.
The, Verse In : I use memories but I do not allow memories to use me.
The, Mantra Of : On the outer limits of cruelty humanity begins.
Therous, Phyllis : Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Thoreau, Henry David : The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Thoreau, Henry David : Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Thoreau, Henry David : If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Thoreau, Henry David : Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau, Henry David : Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Thoreau, Henry David : Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Thoreau, Henry David : Be not simply good; be good for something.
Thoreau, Henry David : I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Thoreau, Henry David : The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Thoreau, Henry David : It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see.
Thoreau, Henry David : What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on.
Thoreau, Henry David : If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Thoreau, Henry David : I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Thoreau, Henry David : Men have become the tools of their tools.
Thoreau, Henry David : If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. (Claude Pepper, U.S. senator and representative, 1900-1989Arrogance: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. (Stephen Jay Gould, U.S. paleontologist, biologist, author, 1941-2002Journalists: You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford, English journalist and civil rights activist, 1917-1996Fishing: Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau, Henry David : The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Thoreau, Henry David : The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Thoreau, Henry David : Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Thoreau, Henry David : A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Thoreau, Henry David : Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Thoreau, Henry David : Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Thoreau, Henry David : I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Thoreau, Henry David : What is morality but immemorial custom?
Thoreau, Henry David : Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Thoreau, Henry David : Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
Thoreau, Henry David : Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Thoreau, Henry David : There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
Thoreau, Henry David : The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
Thurber, James : You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Thurber, James : Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Thurber, James : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
Tillich, Paul : Power without love cannot be just; similarly, love that doesn't take power seriously can never achieve justice.
Tillich, Paul : Fear is the absence of faith.
Tillich, Paul : Power without love cannot be just; similarly, love that doesn't take power seriously can never achieve justice.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : . . . while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is B1no party of principle.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functionsperformed by private citizens.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine.
Tocqueville, Alexis De : The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome: The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine.
Todorov, Tzvetan : We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.
Todorov, Tzvetan : We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.
Tolkien, J.R.R. : Not all those who wander are lost.
Tolle, Eckhart : The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Tolle, Eckhart : Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
Tolstoy, Leo : Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Tolstoy, Leo : What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Tolstoy, Leo : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Tolstoy, Leo : One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.
Tomlin, Lily : We're all in this together . . . alone.
Tomlin, Lily : We're all in this together . . . alone.
Tomlin, Lily : For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
Torrance, Bob : You never want to try to strengthen a weakness if it weakens your strength.
Tournier, Paul : Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Toynbee, Arnold : We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Toynbee, Arnold : Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Trench, Richard C. : Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
Trollope, Anthony : Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Truman, Harry S : A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Tuchman, Barbara : Books are humanity in print.
Turchin, Peter : The onset of agriculture and the emergence of village life was civilization, itself
Turchin, Peter : Civilization represents a repeating, intertwining cycle of chaos, violence, and order. The old dies so that new can be born. Wars drive technological progress and tighten the bonds that hold us together. Little wonder it’s so hard to kick the habit.
Turner, Dale : Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
Turner, Dale : People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Tusser, Thomas : Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.
Tutu, Desmond : My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours. . . . . We say, A person is a person through other persons.
Tutu, Desmond : When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
Tutu, Desmond : If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Tutu, Desmond : A person is a person through other persons.
Tutu, Desmond : If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Twain, Mark : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Twain, Mark : Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Twain, Mark : Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Twain, Mark : Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Twain, Mark : I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Twain, Mark : If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Twain, Mark : The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
Twain, Mark : When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Twain, Mark : Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Twain, Mark : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Twain, Mark : �There isn�t a single square inch of the world that hasn�t been stolen.� In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There�s always been someone else there before.
Twain, Mark : We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
Twain, Mark : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Twain, Mark : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Twain, Mark : I have studied [the dictionary] often, but I never could discover the plot.
Twain, Mark : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Twain, Mark : Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Twain, Mark : A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. governor, ambassador, 1900-1965Perception: Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. novelist, 1867-1957Royalty: The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
Twain, Mark : The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Twain, Mark : The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you found out why.
Twain, Mark : Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Twain, Mark : Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
Twain, Mark : Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the grade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
Twain, Mark : Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Twain, Mark : Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Twain, Mark : Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Twain, Mark : Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Twain, Mark : There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Twain, Mark : History doesn't always repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
Twain, Mark : There isn't a single square inch of the world that hasn't been stolen. In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There's always been someone else there before.
Twain, Mark : It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Twain, Mark : Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Twain, Mark : Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Twain, Mark : Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Twain, Mark : If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Twain, Mark : Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Twain, Mark : Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Twain, Mark : When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Twain, Mark : In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Twain, Mark : It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Twain, Mark : You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Tweedie, Jill : The day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.
Tyger, Frank : Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Tyger, Frank : Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Tyson, Neil Degrasse : Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Tzu, Lao : To lead the people, walk behind them.
Tzu, Lao : Nature is not human-hearted.
Tzu, Lao : He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Tzu, Lao : The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Tzu, Lao : He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Tzu, Lao : To lead people, walk behind them.
Tzu, Lao : Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
Tzu, Lao : Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it.
Tzu, Lao : A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.