Teach us to care and not to care
T. S. ELIOTFor I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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This love is silent.
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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?
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.
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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe?
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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
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There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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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.
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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.
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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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