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Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.
From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.
We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.
We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.
Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.
At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.
only to people!' shouted Rincewind. He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.
We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.
When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.
Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.
How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.
Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.
When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.
Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
Would I be healed now if you gave me your blood, Nikolai?” “Are you asking me for it?” “If I were, would you give it to me?
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.