You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
A pure devotee’s heart is always filled with ideas about executing the Lord’s service, which is bestowed upon the pure devotee through the transparent medium of the spiritual master.
It is not that the IQ of an average Indian is lower than that of the people of
developed countries. The only difference is, they know how to use it constructively
and they also have a conducive environment for the same. Whereas in case of
Indians, the entire intelligence gets wasted in image building and in dealing with
other's smartness.
-Deep Trivedi
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.
The bible tells us to love our neighbours and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
-G. K. Chesterton
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
-Robert G. Ingersoll