Adi Shankara Quotes
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
Adi Shankara
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If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories
Queen Noor of Jordan
As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit
Yamaoka Tesshu
Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.
Dale Carnegie
The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?
Vandana Shiva
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
W. Somerset Maugham
Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv
Da Brat
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
Tacitus
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.
Mariah Carey
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics