35 quotes
"April is the kindest month."
- T.S. Eliot
Compassion
""April is the kindest month.""
- T.S. Eliot
Compassion
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man."
- T.S. Eliot
Hope
"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
Integrity
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
- T.S. Eliot
Motivation
"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."
- T.S. Eliot
Adversity
"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."
- T.S. Eliot
Success
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."
- T.S. Eliot
Creativity
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T.S. Eliot
Leadership
"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, or they do not see it, or they justify it, because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
- T.S. Eliot
Self-esteem
"The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood-- Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."
- T.S. Eliot
Faith
"Should I, after tea and cakes and ices / Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
- T.S. Eliot
Strength
"The journey not the arrival matters."
- T.S. Eliot
Reflection
"Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice."
- T.S. Eliot
Reflection
"The journey, not the arrival, matters."
- T.S. Eliot
Reflection
"For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice."
- T.S. Eliot
Reflection
"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
Reflection
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
- T.S. Eliot
Reflection
"For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice."
- T.S. Eliot
Reflection
"It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time—for we are bound by that—but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time."
- T.S. Eliot
Education
"Solo aquellos que se arriesgan yendo lejos pueden encontrar lo lejos que pueden llegar."
- T.S. Eliot
Taking Risks
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T.S. Eliot
Taking Risks
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
- T.S. Eliot
Taking Risks
"Only those who risk going too far can find out how far they can go."
- T.S. Eliot
Taking Risks
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. (Little Gidding)"
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"Every moment is a new beginning."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
""For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice.""
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts."
- T.S. Eliot
Philosophy
"You are the music while the music lasts."
- T.S. Eliot
Philosophy