Sangna Quotes

#1. Gnani's [The enlightened one's] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people's sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself - loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.

Nelson Algren

#3. Knowing where I came from didn't change who I was.

Kiersten White

#4. Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.

E.A.A. Wilson

#5. Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

Albert Camus

#6. Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

Jules Verne

#7. I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#8. I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Philip Roth

#9. God doesn't believe in the easy way.

James Agee

#10. But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

John Abizaid

#11. Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.

Ben Goldacre

#12. And they want me to defend religion, and they want me to give them proofs. I just won't do it. It only confirms them in their skepticism. Because nothing true can be said a out God from a posture of defense.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

Richard Holbrooke

#14. Hope and perseverance - that's what I learned from books.

Tiffany Reisz

#15. It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Gwen Moore