Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot motivational inspirational life For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. T. S. Eliot poetry work trying Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T. S. Eliot important pride people 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 life funny If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. T. S. Eliot silence heart firsts Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson. T. S. Eliot lessons 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 wisdom life knowledge 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 mob-rule class men Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications. T. S. Eliot simple life-is way 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 please notes long If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are. T. S. Eliot boundaries ifs knows The journey, Not the destination matters. T. S. Eliot destination journey matter 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. T. S. Eliot relationship memories people 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. T. S. Eliot what-you-want want thinking 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 beautiful inspirational life 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. T. S. Eliot vocabulary family love The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. T. S. Eliot vanity majority doubt Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it. T. S. Eliot political want giving If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. T. S. Eliot motivational inspirational life Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. T. S. Eliot philosophical humility thinking
