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The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]
She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.
By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.
I'm not considered as illegitimate as I once was. Because in a sense, I'm like lip cancer - I'm not going to go away.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals.
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, He is with us. He has promised us that this will never change.
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.
I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.
Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.
When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.
Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.