Quotes & Sayings About Dal Lake Kashmir

The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically powerful. Its counterpart is the informalization of spirituality - accompanied by its commercialization in the corresponding subcultures. The threshold values for these two tendencies provide the intellectual landmarks for the twentieth century: the first tendency is represented by sport, which has become a metaphor for achievement as such, and the second by popular music, that devotio postmoderna which covers the lives of contemporary individuals with unpredictable flashes of inner emergency. — Peter Sloterdijk

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them. — Knute Rockne

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable. — Epictetus

Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse. — Swami Vivekananda

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely. — Elvis Presley

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction. — Orhan Pamuk

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money. — Andrew Carnegie

All women are created equal Then some become marines. — Katy Perry

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow. — Ellis Peters

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. — Jonathan Edwards

I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his. — El-P

You hurt me more than that bullet. Not by lying about who you were but by not coming to see me. You're supposed to be an expert at working out the most efficient path to get to where you want to be. Since for the last three weeks that path didn't lead to me, you left me thinking you didn't want me at all." He glared. "But I got over my sulk and started to wonder if I was wrong. I think you do want me but you're afraid. My big, rough, tough bodyguard is scared shitless. — Barbara Elsborg

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. — Robert Musil

Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other. — Jim Butcher