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We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.
Two things are easiest to do. One, to carry water in a sieve. Two, to still the mind. Freeze water. Breathe calm. Only two secrets to learn.
The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.
Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.
Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.
We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).
It's abundantly clear that we already have extraterrestrials living among us, and people are stepping forward who can communicate with them.
One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.
I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.
Keep in mind that angels do not belong to any one religion; they go beyond a single religion. The angels represent the Divine energy of God.
The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.
… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.
Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.
I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
I’ll admit it to you now, and to anyone, anytime. I need you, Elise. I love you. You are mine. My woman, my mate, my beloved. My everything.
We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living
The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.
Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.
Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.
True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.