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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• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Evidence

• The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • Book
  • Mother

• Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • True
  • Sharks

• Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.

  

  Kanye West
  • Food
  • Fashion
  • Style

• He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Light

• 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
  • World
  • Together
  • Small

• As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit

  

  Yamaoka Tesshu
  • Character
  • Perfect

• 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
  • People
  • Remember
  • Talking

• 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
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• 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
  • People
  • Country
  • House

• 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
  • World
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Overalls

• If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wish
  • Understand
  • Philosopher

• If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Life
  • Think
  • Relationship

• The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Truth
  • War

• If you want to get power, listen carefully. Don't be impulsive. Don't arrogantly insert your opinion. Express gratitude. Cultivate a culture of respect. Show your respect for other people's efforts. Promote a culture of equality, too, where everybody's opinion matters. Tell stories.

  

  Dacher Keltner
  • People
  • Power
  • Culture

• I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Time
  • Understanding

• There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • True
  • Small
  • Directors

• 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
  • Giving Up
  • Supreme
  • Illusory