Deodatta Shenai Quotes & Sayings

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience. — Russell M. Nelson

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying. — D. A. Carson

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men — Tunku Abdul Rahman

The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to do with this weird thing I do every now and then. Like everyone else, as a reader there are certain things that really rub me the wrong way in fiction - pet bugbears, let's call them. — Roy Kesey

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear ... It read: "Rejoice always." — Mary C. Neal

Learning is my sole delight. — Francesco Petrarca

Genius is steps shy of the divine. — Matshona Dhliwayo

That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn't have any more tears left. — Marianne Williamson

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time! — Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

It's a misconception that Beauty is in the Eyes of beholder. In my view, Beauty must be in the Heart of beholder for her true appreciation. — Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

The very falsehood that stained her, was a proof how blindly she loved another
this dark, slight, elegant, handsome man
while he himself was rough, and stern, and strongly made. He lashed himself into an agony of fierce jealousy. He thought of that look, that attitude!
how he would have laid his life at her feet for such tender glances, such fond detention! He mocked at himself, for having valued the mechanical way in which she had protected him from the fury of the mob; now he had seen how soft and bewitching she looked when with a man she really loved. He remembered, point by point, the sharpness of her words
'There was not a man in all that crowd for whom she would not have done as much, far more readily than for him.' He shared with the mob, in her desire of averting bloodshed from them; but this man, this hidden lover, shared with nobody; he had looks, words, hand-cleavings, lies, concealment, all to himself. — Elizabeth Gaskell