Gowri Festival Quotes & Sayings

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look. — Mattie Stepanek

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization. — Matthew Lesko

I don't consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer. — Ellen DeGeneres

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given. — Jean Vanier

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric. — Penelope Mitchell

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer. — Jane Hamilton

We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience. — Bill Moyers

The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of female sexual experience seem normal and desirable. The capacity for orgasm in women, she found, is a learned response, which a given culture can help or can fail to help its women to develop. Mead believed that a woman's sexual fulfillment, and the positive meaning of her sexuality in her own mind, depend upon three factors:
1: She must live in a culture that recognizes female desire as being of value;
2: Her culture must allow her to understand her sexual anatomy;
3: And her culture must teach the various sexual skills that give women orgasms. — Naomi Wolf

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs. — Marie-Luise Gothein