T. S. Eliot Quotes, Thoughts and images

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Finding a way to live a simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

Talent imitates, genius steals.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.