S. N. Goenka Quotes
Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.
S. N. Goenka
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Karl Kraus
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
Karen Abbott
A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
Ed Royce
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
Camille Claudel
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
Barry McGuire
I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
Nancy Reagan
When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.
Scotty McCreery
In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
Amy Sherald
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah
Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.
S. N. Goenka