Ramani Quotes

#1. Now the uncle spoke up. 'This cannot be,' he said. 'The human being is designed for many things. Loneliness is not one of them.' ... Mrs. Ramani leaned into me, and said, as a statement of fact. 'We are not meant to go through this life alone.

Liz Tuccillo

#2. Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

Tom Johnson

#3. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. How much beer is in German intelligence?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.

Ramani Durvasula

#6. The fact is, many people do not know how treat themselves and are experts at putting themselves down. In fact, if most of us were in a relationship with ourselves, we would break up with us, given how badly we treat ourselves.

Ramani Durvasula

#7. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

#8. Fear is the most powerful adhesive we have. Fear unites, because if two people are afraid, then even as the authentic ties that may have once bound them disappear, the fear ties are as sticky as a spider's web.

Ramani Durvasula

#9. Thirty years - almost all of them really happy. That's a lifetime, it's incredible. Most people don't get that. But maybe this is just over, you know? Maybe it's over...

Zadie Smith

#10. Narcissism is very much a "disorder of superficiality." Given that the entire world is trending towards greater superficiality in all endeavors - work, school, parenting, and love - the narcissists' propensity toward superficiality no longer seems that unusual.

Ramani Durvasula

#11. An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress

W.B.Yeats

#12. Narcissism is, indeed, the new world order.

Ramani Durvasula

#13. Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Goswami Kriyananda

#14. Relationships with narcissists are held in place by hope
of a "someday better," with little evidence to support it will ever arrive.

Ramani Durvasula

#15. Adulthood just meant finding the variety of crazy that resonated the most with you and doing it until you died or it killed you - whichever came first. "Where

Elise Kova

#16. The best way to choose the wrong door, or never even open the door, is to let fear run the show. When you reflect on any big-ticket decision you have made on the basis of fear and anxiety, you can almost guarantee you made the wrong decision.

Ramani Durvasula

#17. It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

#19. If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?

Ramani Durvasula

#20. I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.

Billy Martin

#21. You know, even U2 took a little time off, and then they came back with a new sound.

Daron Malakian

#22. Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Hans Rookmaaker

#23. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.

David Mitchell

#24. Entrusting your dreams or aspirations to the wrong person could be a critical mistake, lest they mistreat or neglect them. We are not nearly as careful with our dreams as we should be.

Ramani Durvasula