Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. Othello
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Quote:- Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Author:- William Knox
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- TJ frowns; she can’t write about willing wind and water in the official report. Voicing elements is a rumor. However, she remembers what her grandmother said five decades ago when she was a child; (it was shortly after the war): Anyone who trains hard can be a Grade A by the time they’re forty or fifty. But it takes decades more to become strong enough to voice one element.One element? TJ asked. Do you want to voice the entire universe then?Can’t I?Grandmother didn’t answer, not directly anyway, as most great masters do. They never say you can’t do this or no one can do that or that thing is impossible just because they couldn’t do it, or because they hadn’t found it yet. True masters answer differently. Wisely. Like her grandmother answered that day. Do you know why we evolve, Tirity? Because we’re supposed to? TJ replied.Yes. It’s in the grand design. We’re ‘supposed to’ evolve. Not just in body, but also in mind, she said. In time. You see, time is the key. If given infinite time, you can evolve your mind infinitely. But we live only for a hundred years or so. A hundred years is ‘only’? You’re so young, Tirity! But yes, it is little for a complete cognitive evolution. Most hard trainers can prolong it to a couple of hundred years. They even get to call the wind or grow a giant plant that could touch the clouds. But voicing everything in the universe? I think only God can do it, the God who created everything with only words. And if God created the world so that he could see how far the humans can evolve, then I’d say, yes, even a human could get godly power. Godlier than voicing one or two elements. If. Given. The. Time.How much time? More than thousands of years, maybe. Could even need millions, who knows? …TJ smiles drily; she remembers how her eyes sparkled at the thought of becoming a goddess who could voice everything. She dreamed of flying in the air or walking in space. She thought of making her own garden full of giant flowers where only enormous butterflies would dance. Some days, when she played video games in VR, she even dreamed of voicing the thunder and lightning to join her wooden sword. She thought time could help her do it. But she didn’t know then, time only makes you grow up. Time steals your dreams. Time only turns you into an adult.
The High Auction
Author:- Misba
Category:- time
Quote:- To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Author:- L. Frank Baum
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.
Author:- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Category:- motivational
Quote:- To ‘let go’ sometimes makes us feel like losers because it means giving up what truly we felt we had a right to. But true strength lies in resisting the urge to hold onto things and people that bring us down.
Author:- Chinonye J. Chidolue
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- To a certain extent a man loses himself through connecting with his partner.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Author:- John Gray
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.
Author:- James Hutton
Category:- science
Quote:- To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
Author:- Stirling Moss
Category:- motivational
Quote:- To achieve something big in this world gather your energy and throw it forcefully in only one right direction.
Author:- Anuj Jasani
Category:- time
Quote:- To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.
The Netocrats
Author:- Alexander Bard
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Author:- Marilyn vos Savant
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- To act is to commit, and to commit is to take risks.
Author:- James Baldwin
Category:- motivational
Quote:- To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point however, is to ignore self-preservation.
Author:- Isaac Mashman
Category:- motivational
Quote:- To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer.
Author:- Eric Roxas
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Author:- Robert M. Pirsig
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
Author:- David Brainerd
Category:- hope
Quote:- To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced.
Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
Author:- Emmanuel Levinas
Category:- philosophy