Advaita Ashrama Quotes & Sayings

Whereas the angel "came" to Mary (Lk 1:28), he merely appears to Joseph in a dream - admittedly a dream that is real and reveals what is real. Once again this shows us an essential quality of the figure of Saint Joseph: his capacity to perceive the divine and his ability to discern. Only a man who is inwardly watchful for the divine, only someone with a real sensitivity for God and his ways, can receive God's message in this way. — Pope Benedict XVI

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode. — Brittany Murphy

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. — Jeffrey Archer

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world. — Eric Hoffer

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. — William Gibson

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards. — Felipe Esparza

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write. — Roger Zelazny

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. — Bill Bryson

Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an hour, or as most people call that, 'Thanksgiving Dinner.' — Jimmy Fallon

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. — Brian Tracy

In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together ... more and more realizing that's what I do. — Ringo Starr

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish. — Tamora Pierce

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself. — Ann Demeulemeester