"Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications."
~ T. S. Eliot 💎 #BOTD 1888
"Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson."
~ T. S. Eliot
"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
"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
~ T. S. Eliot
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. ~ T.S. Eliot
"If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks."
~ T. S. Eliot
"If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are."
~ T. S. Eliot
"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?"
~ T. S. Eliot
"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."
~ T. S. Eliot
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
~ T. S. Eliot
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
~ T. S. Eliot
"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..." Eliot
"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self."
~ T. S. Eliot
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