Pratika Quotes

#1. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way

Tina J. Richardson

#3. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Charles Studd

#4. And the look on his face when he saw it. Like someone blew a horn and all his walls crumbled.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.

Sarada Devi

#6. Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

William Hogarth

#7. Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#8. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

Sophia Loren

#9. my mother died unexpectedly, and in the months that followed I'd been gutted to discover that without our conversations, which I'd always assumed would be there for the having, I had absolutely no idea how to make sense of myself.

Kate Bolick