Pandita Quotes

#1. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

John Donne

#2. The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

Sakya Pandita

#3. My fans are crazy, but in a good way. Very supportive, and some tweet me more like a 100 times a day. As for tour tales, I have a saying: 'What happens on tour stays on tour.'

Tiesto

#4. The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#5. Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Saskya Pandita

#6. Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

Saskya Pandita

#7. When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

Sakya Pandita

#8. By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Saskya Pandita

#9. I am enjoying my life because things aren't going the way I planned.

Rohit Pandita

#10. Our language for describing emotions is very crude ... that's what music is for, I guess.

Ben Goertzel

#11. A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

Pandita Ramabai

#12. I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

Milton Berle

#13. People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.

Pandita Ramabai

#14. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

#15. I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.

Pandita Ramabai

#16. The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.

Andy Goldsworthy

#17. Music is something that I explore everyday and I don't get a day off.

Rohit Pandita

#18. If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

Sakya Pandita

#19. Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Saskya Pandita

#20. With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

Sakya Pandita

#21. It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

Saskya Pandita

#22. When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

Saskya Pandita

#23. If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

Saskya Pandita