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Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.
Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.
The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.
Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.
If you are not fully, totally, and truly committed to creating wealth, chances are you won't.
Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.
We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.
Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?
DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.
Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?
We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.
Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.
The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
Success comes when people turn what they've learned into the daily habits that breed success.
Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.
It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal.
The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.
There is always more demand for great content then there will be great content to satisfy it.