A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
-Coco Chanel
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller
Only two kinds of deeds can be termed auspicious; one, wherein you get the
pleasure but not at the cost of others. (Mind here, it does not include the imaginary
or ego-driven losses) and second, the task, which if completed benefits millions
of people.
-Deep Trivedi
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
-David Mitchell
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
-Coco Chanel
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks