Dalbani Quotes & Sayings

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing. — C. Terry Warner

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life. — Helen Keller

The United Nations research states that men with the longest life expectancy are from Japan, followed by Switzerland. I am rather surprised at this result as since time immemorial we have been doing the Karva Chauth fast to make sure our men have long lives, and the results should have definitely shown by now. I scan the list, confident that in this chart of life expectancy, the Indian man must definitely be in the top 5. Nope! There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don't fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes. — Twinkle Khanna

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. — Susan Sontag

On every question will be never directly an answer immediately. — Jan Jansen

People sat in small groups, talking about the other small groups that were just out of earshot. My ex and the dancer made a brief appearance, but I held my head high. I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yeah, I was pretty cool. — Tina Fey

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing. — E.L. Konigsburg

The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more meditation goes deep, the less and less you will be a mind. Thoughts will become rare, and ultimately they cease. That doesn't mean you become unthinking; it only means that your consciousness becomes clear, transparent, without thoughts moving continuously as clouds. Whenever you need to think you can think; but now thought becomes an instrument to you, not an obsession as it is presently. Thoughts are an obsession without meditation. — Rajneesh

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. — George Bernard Shaw

Society is founded upon Cloth; — Thomas Carlyle

Who's a big fierce monster dog? Who's a bloodthirsty hound from Hell? It's you. Yes it is. — Rob Thomas

People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy. — Robert Pattinson

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. — Marsilio Ficino

And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. — W.G. Sebald

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything. — Shari Sebbens