T.S. Eliot

"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future."

"Shantih, shantih, shantih—peace, peace, peace."

"Do not ask what it is; do not ask, if it is."

"The flesh fails but the spirit endures."

"Words strain and crack under the burden of what we wish to express."

"The dry stone no sound of water."

"Datta. Dayadzm. Damyata."

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore."

"Experienced states of consciousness are living, feeling, and thinking."

"If we valued ourselves only according to what others think, we would be in thrall forever."

"The progress of an artist is a continual sacrifice of all that is provincial in his being."

"In the waiting silence, all truth resides."

"Friendship itself is what we call marriage."

"The essential advantage of humans is our ability to speak truth."

"What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning."

"The infinite serenity of the aesthetic point of view."

"We are dying of unbelief."

"The world is trying the experiment of a civilization without religion."

"Living involves a great deal of suffering."

"One must have a sense of humor to survive."

"Time is the fire in which we all burn."

"Language exists to conceal our thoughts."

"Nothing is fixed in the temporal flow."

"We are the music while the music lasts."

"The greatness of literature is not always apparent at first reading."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human existence."

"A man who knows himself knows very little else."

"The power of words is that they can resurrect the dead."

"To see things as they really are takes courage and honesty."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."