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The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.
Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.
I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.
Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.
For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.
It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.
I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.
To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.
Gwen?" "Yes." "You know why we have to be together, don't you?" "..." "I'm your selkie.
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.
At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way.
For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."
Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.
We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.
It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.