Bhagwati Agarwal Quotes & Sayings

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain. — Mahatma Gandhi

God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you. — Eric Ludy

Because sex, drugs, and religion all hinge on the same kind of simple neurochemical events: addictive, euphoric, exhilirating - and all, equally, meaningless. — Greg Egan

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England. — Peter James

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course. — Stephen King

The tail of some creature has nothing to do with it! I don't even know what a fairy is. How could I be afraid of its tail? — Donald Swan

He especially loved people - is so happy, especially remembering Eloise. — Anna Carey

How old are you?"
"Ten," answered Tangle.
"You don't look like it," said the lady.
"How old are you, please?" returned Tangle.
"Thousands of years old," answered the lady.
"You don't look like it," said Tangle.
"Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am! — George MacDonald

In addition to the kind of critical reflection on one's previous assumptive or tacit system of values we saw Jack undertake, there must be, for Stage 4, a relocation of authority within the self. While others and their judgments will remain important to the Individuative-Reflective person, their expectations, advice and counsel will be submitted to an internal panel of experts who reserve the right to choose and who are prepared to take responsibility for their choices. I sometimes call this the emergence of the executive ego.
The two essential features of the emergence of Stage 4, then, are the critical distancing from one's previous assumptive value system and the emergence of the executive ego ...
We find that sometimes many persons complete half of this double movement, but do not complete the other. — James W. Fowler