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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Lessons

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Pride, People, Important

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

Information, Should

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

Done, Turns, Wanted

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Journey, Matter, Destination

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Heart, Silence, Firsts

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

Men, Class, Mob Rule

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Simple, Way, Life Is

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

Boundaries, Knows, Ifs

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.3, Harvard University Press

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Long, Notes, Please

T.S. Eliot (1950). “The Cocktail Party”

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

Running, Crazy, Opposites

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Inspirational, Life Changing, Successful

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.938, Faber & Faber

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

Ends

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Inspirational, Mean, People

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

"Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

Journey, Ends

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Hope, Men, Library

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

Memories, Men, Forget

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

Book, People, Enough

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

Beach, Not Wasting Time, Enjoyed

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

Relationship, Memories, People

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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