Mantram Quotes

#1. The effect of the mantram is cumulative: constant repetition, constant practice, is required for the mantram to take root in our consciousness and gradually transform it, just as constant repetition makes the advertiser's jingle stick in our minds.

Eknath Easwaran

#2. The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?

Eknath Easwaran

#4. Whenever you are angry or afraid, nervous or worried or resentful, repeat the mantram until the agitation subsides. The mantram works to steady the mind, and all these emotions are power running against you, which the mantram can harness and put to work for you.

Eknath Easwaran

#5. Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters ... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.

Virginia Johnson

#6. When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Youssou N'Dour

#7. For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Jon Scieszka

#8. People don't need to be scared. I tickle sharks. I do, when they swim by.

Michael Muller

#9. I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

James A. Garfield

#10. But it's like the feeling you get at the end of a book you love.

Stuart Murdoch

#11. Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.

Karen Elson

#12. Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!

Phil Spector

#13. A philosopher is a mathematician, who might not be good at solving mathematical problems but knows 'which one' to solve and 'why' to solve it...

Victor Ghoshe

#14. When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.

Matt Chandler

#15. Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often.

Fred DeLuca

#16. I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"
He shook his head.
"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.

Larry Niven