All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
God
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
-Annie Dillard
"Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
What you are is God’s gift to you; what you make of it is your gift to God.
-Anthony Dalla Villa
Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work and look around you.
-Leo Tolstoy
Even the gods love jokes.
-Plato "Plato"
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
-Rabindranath Tagore
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire
