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I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.
Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.
A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.
He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.
I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.
Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?
The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.
On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?
I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.
God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.
I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.
Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.