Deva Quotes & Sayings

Winning begins at home. It begins with your thoughts and your actions. — Frederick Lenz

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods) will have to come down again and attain to salvation through a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm not a big politics guy. — Kevin Hart

His arms surrounded me, pulling me close, holding me as if I was infinitely precious. I burned and trembled in his embrace. — Julianne Donaldson

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation. — Samuel Beckett

Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below. — Deva Fagan

Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged. — Deva Premal

I read once that the voice is a mirror of our inner being. I can very much relate to that because, when you sing, you feel very exposed. You feel like you can't hide anything. But then it also works the other way round and, when we work on our voice, our inner being also changes. — Deva Premal

Jobs and commerce have moved to edge nodes, but few people want to live in them. The presence of housing in edge nodes is often the result of spot builders filling in leftover sites with 'affordable' housing units. Nearby freeways make many of these units undesirable. Occasionally expensive apartments for households without children are added near upscale mall areas ... but most affluent families prefer to live elsewhere. Ugly environments, cheap gas, and subsidized freeways mean that workers commute to residences far outside the edge nodes, scattering into less dense areas, creating one more suburban pattern, the rural fringes. — Dolores Hayden

You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more. — Deva Premal

Humankind comprises four kinds of people: Idiots, Wimps, Bystanders and terrorists — Mukul Deva

On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect. — Monica Bellucci

What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness. — Peter Croft

Quit living for the world, live for yourself just you alone because it's starts with you. — Euginia Herlihy

Meet me at the pitcher pouring a thousand streams." Alice's phone was probably tapped. The strange, short phrase should confuse anyone who snooped on it. Anyone other than Alice. — Deva Long

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred. — Deva Premal

The shift in national power may be overshadowed by an even more fundamental shift in the nature of power. Enabled by communications technologies, power will shift toward multifaceted and amorphous networks that will form to influence state and global actions. Those countries with some of the strongest fundamentals - GDP, population size, etc. - will not be able to punch their weight unless they also learn to operate in networks and coalitions in a multipolar world. — National Research Council

And then you run. Because the only thing worse than her being gone is that you're still here. — Tricia Rayburn

Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth. — Swami Vivekananda

Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who would conquer
just one
himself.
Better to conquer yourself
than others.
When you've trained yourself,
living in constant self-control,
neither a deva nor gandhabba,
nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
could turn that triumph
back into defeat. — Gautama Buddha

Perhaps I had started to believe again in magic, or perhaps in love. Or perhaps they were the same thing. — Deva Fagan