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“The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Rocks #Church #Failing
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Knowledge #Technology #Information
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“Survival is your strength not your shame.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Survival #Shame
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“At the still point, there the dance is.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Beautiful #Scene #Stills
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“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Hard Times #Entrepreneur #Challenges
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“Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Negative #Nasty
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“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.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Inspirational #Funny #Life
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“For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Winter #Thyme #Waterfalls
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“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.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Inspirational #Mean #People
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“not fare well, but fare forward”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Wells
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“No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Faith #Inspiration #Voice
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“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Inspirational #Time #Decision
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“It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Life #Men #Might
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“The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Believe #Men #Practice
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“Teach us to care and not to care”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Care #Teach
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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Games #Careers #May
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“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Mom #Mother #Baby
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“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Funny #Humorous #Way
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“Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Blood #Theatre #Producers
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“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Mean #Odds #Giving
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“People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Exercise #People #Influence
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“And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Memories #Dark #Space
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“If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Understanding #Our Words #Deeds
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“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Respect #Library #Literature
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“There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Real #Views #Point Of View
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“One starts an action simply because one must do something.”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Action
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“And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Morning #Fear #Dust
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“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Age #Ruins #Nostalgia
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“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
-- T. S. Eliot
#Clever #Dare #Universe
