Aspirant's Quotes

#1. Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and ... grace ... pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#2. It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.

Bhakti Tirtha Swami

#3. Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

Wallace Stevens

#4. A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

Ramakrishna

#5. In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

Jessica Mitford

#6. He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

John Ray

#7. There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

Elizabeth Kolbert

#8. It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

Michael Faraday

#9. When fluoridated water was first introduced as a potential prevention against tooth decay, it was a natural product: calcium fluoride, to be exact. Now if there's fluoride in our water, it is sodium fluoride, which is literally a toxic waste product of the aluminum industry.

Amy Myers

#10. Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.

Georg Brandes

#11. It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

Andy Taylor

#12. Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

Soledad O'Brien

#13. I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

George McGovern

#14. To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Lorne Michaels

#15. IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.

Sri Chinmoy

#17. The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Swami Sivananda

#18. The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'

Olly Murs

#19. My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

Kate Atkinson

#20. The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

H.L. Mencken

#21. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.

Charlotte Bronte

#22. I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

Jennifer Coolidge

#23. CA student is composition of a Compassionate, Cheerful, and Cool aspirant. I will be a Chartered Accountant.

Vikrmn

#24. In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose
one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#25. The universe is just like old Sherlock Holmes and hides all of its goodies in plain sight.

Steve Merrick

#26. I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

James A. Michener

#28. Pretty, kind heart & crazy, messy soul(The perfect combination)

Sakshi Gupta

#29. The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.

Idries Shah

#30. Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#31. If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

Jan Morris

#32. I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Jim Crace

#33. The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?

Paul Brunton

#34. I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Mahatma Gandhi