Vivekananda Hindi Quotes

#1. Temptation yielded to is lust deified (My Utmost for His Highest, September 17 entry). Temptation comes in many forms, but it is always personal, uncannily tailor-made for our individual moral weakness, and it takes aim at God's character, seeking to ransack our faith.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#2. True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Joseph Addison

#3. Terrorists, oh I'm sorry, Fox News tells us it's all illegal immagration's fault but it's not their fault, it's ours.

Christopher Titus

#4. First of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again

Leonard Cohen

#5. It's only here on earth, my friends,
We're lent to each other, for at the end
We leave the beautiful songs behind ...
We leave the beautiful blooms behind.

David Bowles

#6. How easily we all vanish from the face of the earth. One moment, we live. The next, we are erased.

Kate Wrath

#7. If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

Malcolm Fraser

#8. Sliding is living antifriction. Or, no, sliding is living by antifriction. It is finding a modest thing you can do, and then greasing that thing. On both sides. It is grooving with comfort.

James Dickey

#9. Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

Winston Graham

#10. I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

Lance Armstrong

#11. Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

Jay Maisel

#12. Noodles are not only amusing but delicious ...

Julia Child

#13. She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

Jodi Picoult