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We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
After having babies, I went off most desserts and chocolates. I could never resist a Wispa or a Flake. I can't finish a bar now.
Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.
My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.
As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.
As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari
I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")
There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.
Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy.
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?
Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.
I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.
Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.
The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds."
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.