Sridhara Swami Quotes

#1. There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry," said Dumbledore's voice. "On the contrary . . . the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength." Harry

J.K. Rowling

#2. Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.

Hayao Miyazaki

#3. I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

Lupe Fiasco

#4. Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.

Nnedi Okorafor

#5. Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

David Letterman

#6. I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

Rose McIver

#7. I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. ... I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

Eric Rohmer

#8. At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#9. Free societies ... are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Salman Rushdie

#10. In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Confucius

#11. People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#12. Being your authentic self reassures the people you meet.

Sam Owen

#13. Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

Mariah Nelson

#14. We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.

Sorin Cerin