Nirmalananda Saraswati Quotes

#1. It's hard to see love when you have it, but when it's gone you're blind to anything else.

Chelsea Fine

#2. I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#3. In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

Kent Nerburn

#4. Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

Eric Holder

#5. One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Oprah Winfrey

#6. Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos. The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

Thomas Sowell

#8. We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

Plato

#9. One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

Martha Stout

#10. You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn't question it.

Charles Manson

#11. When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

Orson Scott Card

#12. In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. ****your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)

Richard Clogg

#14. I'm not beautiful; I clean up nice.

Helen Mirren

#15. Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

Paul Auster