Alwen Reservoir Quotes & Sayings

Swamiji: That is but a state of stupefaction, as under liquor. What will be the use of merely remaining like that? Through the urge of Advaitic realisation, you should sometimes dance wildly and sometimes remain lost to outward sense. Does one feel happy to taste of a good thing all by oneself? One should share it with others. Granted that you attain personal liberation by means of the realisation of the Advaita, but what matters it to the world? You must liberate the whole universe before you leave this body. Then only you will be established in the eternal Truth. Has that bliss any match, my boy? (VII. 162-63) — Swami Vivekananda

I would like to think of myself as an artist...excluding the part where he bows before an audience. There are no appreciations for killings. — Abhik Chatterjee

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life. — Honore De Balzac

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up. — Robin McKinley

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They said that war will be the solution to end the conflict and problems, but they never said what will be the solution for the problems and conflicts created by the war itself. — Shrey Srivastava

You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey — Mariah Carey

I care for riches, to make gifts. — Euripides