Chakiben Quotes & Sayings

First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. — Thomas Paine

I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, — Donna Tartt

Maybe she was sexist. — Liane Moriarty

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness. — Rajneesh

A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism ... are so compelling.
... we love them because they're the closest thing we have to material evidence of an objective moral order
or, to put it another way, they're the closest thing we have to proof of the existence of God. They seem to prove that the things that matter to and move us the most
things like love, courage, loyalty, altruism
aren't just ideas we made up from nothing. To see them demonstrated in other animals proves they're real things, that they exist in the world independently of what humans invent and tell each other in the form of myth or fable. — Gwen Cooper

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. — John Cazale

Keep on following your dreams and don't let anyone put you down or tell you that you can't do it! — Greyson Chance

If indeed good were a feeling....then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit the naturalistic fallacy. It will always remain pertinent to ask, whether the feeling itself is good; and if do, then good cannot itself be identical with any feeling. — G.E. Moore