Tongue Quotes - Page 31

• Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spring, Blue, Sky

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

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• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  Sallust

  Ambition, Men, Breasts

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Good Life, Outrun

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• I you're in prayer, take care of your heart.
  If you're eating, take cre of your throat.
  If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes.
  If you among people, take care of your tongue.

  Luqman

  Prayer, Islamic, Heart

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• Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

  Mike Mason

  Memories, Heart, Suffering

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• They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

  Plato

  Knowledge, Science, Dedication

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• People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Children, Selfish

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• True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

  Edward Dyer

  True Love, Heart, Eye

  Sir Edward Dyer, “The Lowest Trees Have Tops”

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• Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.

  Abdullah, Son of Masud

  Wisdom, Regret, Islamic

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• These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Heart, Three

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• Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

  Al Nichol

  Speak, Economics, Mathematical

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• And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

  Plato

  Blood, Hands, Land

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• The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Evil

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• I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
  When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

  M. J. Hyland

  Beach, Memories, Swimming

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• The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

  Howard Moskowitz

  Mind, Want, Spaghetti Sauce

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• It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

  Bruno Heller

  Drinking, Angel, Alcohol

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• Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this remembrance. Be careful lest your tongue pronounce it while other-than-He is in your heart. Let your heart be the one who utters, and your ear the one who is attentive to this invocation until the 'speaker' emanates from your Self (sirr). When you feel the emergence of the Speaker within you through the invocation, do not abandon the spiritual condition wherein you find yourself.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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• The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for as long as the invoker is in the station of invoking with the tongue or with the heart.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Reality, Long

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• Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Names, Presence Of Mind

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• If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Two, Perception

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• Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya:
  You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now.
  Block the music and the people out to admire the love,
  The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club.
  And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint,
  It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Block, Rap, Blow

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• That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Political, Cain

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.705, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Bedeviled, human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

  Marie Howe

  Sleep, Tangled, Plight

  "The Good Thief". Book by Marie Howe, 1988.

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• Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

  Henri Matisse

  Cutting, Wish, Painting

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