Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.
Anyone that is fallen into the grip of lust, wrath, or attachment…by contemplation of the Supreme Being, with a moment’s remembrance of God shall he be saved.
‘New’ is a beautiful word which opens up many possibilities. If every day can be viewed as ‘New’ then, life blossoms - like new leaves, buds, flowers and fruit - full of colour, fragrance, taste and rasa: the very essence of living.