Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Life is like a book with three chapters. Two are already written by God - Birth and Death. The chapter in the middle is empty; fill it with your smile, love and faith.
When you chant the Name, it actually moves through your whole being - purifying you, bestowing grace, and making you sacred…Chanting breaks down the barriers between you and your own heart.
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
This new life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
-Philip Reeve
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt