Durairaj Pasadena Quotes & Sayings

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. — Edmund Burke

Parents are the great well wishers of their child, no one else more than them. — Kusum Manjeshri

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past. — Daniel Baldwin

[Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind. — Werner Erhard

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure
though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you were a game, Silas, you'd be Monopoly. You just go on and on and everyone ends up cheating just to be over with it. — Colleen Hoover

At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox. It turned out to be damp.
'I'll kill that bloody cat,' he muttered, and groped for the spare box that was normally on the ledge by the door. It was missing. Broadman said a bad word. A lighted taper appeared in mid-air, right beside him.
HERE, TAKE THIS.
'Thanks,' said Broadman.
DON'T MENTION IT.
Broadman went to throw the taper down the steps. His hand paused in mid-air. He looked at the taper, his brow furrowing. Then he turned around and held the taper up to illuminate the scene. It didn't shed much light, but it did give the darkness a shape ...
'Oh, no - ' he breathed.
BUT YES, said Death. — Terry Pratchett

When someone is dancing madly in a blissful state, in ecstasy after meditation, he is creating vibrations around him. They may penetrate into anyone. They can become infectious; they do become infectious. This ecstasy can go to others also; this ecstasy can be felt. Others hearts will be touched by it. And if you can create ripples around you, vibrations, you have served the world, and there is no other way to serve it - you have served the divine, and there is no other way to serve it. — Rajneesh

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use. — Marilyn Manson

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. — Sarah Dessen

God's pleasure
the beauty creation possesses in his regard
underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good. — David Bentley Hart