Balsdons Quotes & Sayings

Man is subject to all kinds of hardships and misfortunes. — Chandrasekharendra Saraswati

If the loving ones look on magic as evil then the evil doers shall win. For you are turning your back on the life forces themselves, and you shall be weakened by your fear, thirsting for the elixir. Those who would do evil do not fear the forces, they consume the elixir unabated. They are not living in fear of themselves. — Tamara Rendell

My goal is to know the Holy One and my divine self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal. — Jon Ronson

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera. — Luciano Pavarotti

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer. — Tyler Blackburn

You were only meant to be a stepping stone on my journey across the sea. — Sara Secora

I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water. — Anne Rice

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain. — Tony Robbins

There's a lot more to be learned, and I'm going to learn all the way up to the stairway to the stars — Mimi Weddell

During Aurangzeb's rule, which lasted for forty-nine years from 1658 onwards, there were many phases during which Pandits were persecuted. One of his fourteen governors, Iftikhar Khan, who ruled for four years from 1671, was particularly brutal towards the community. It was during his rule that a group of Pandits approached the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, in Punjab and begged him to save their faith. He told them to return to Kashmir and tell the Mughal rulers that if they could convert him (Tegh Bahadur), all Kashmiri Pandits would accept Islam. This later led to the Guru's martyrdom, but the Pandits were saved. — Rahul Pandita

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. — Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing so capital as a cup of tea for settling the Disheveled Nerves of Fair Ladies. — Joan Bassington-French