Jalaja Bonheim Quotes

#1. No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.

Herman Melville

#2. The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

Manu Joseph

#3. We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.

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#4. Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

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#5. My land is where my dead lie buried.

Crazy Horse

#6. Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Jonathan Mayhew

#7. It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

Dore Ashton

#8. To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.

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#9. Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

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#10. Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.

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#11. Thought is borne of failure.

Lancelot Law Whyte

#12. Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Alex North

#13. It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#14. When you fall in love, waves of joy fill your dreams and become your reality while your realities become your dreams.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.

Frederick Lenz

#16. The era of resisting big government is never over.

Paul Gigot

#17. During the late Victorian period, one English woman in Hampshire who suffered from fits reportedly ate an entire New Testament in an attempt to cure her illness, putting each page in the middle of a sandwich.

Martyn Lyons

#18. When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

Jalaja Bonheim