Harpal Mangat Quotes & Sayings

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. — Marianne Williamson

My definition of forgiveness is a sigh, very like a sigh of relief, on which the memory of evil is breathed out.
With letting go of the memory, discontinuing the incessant replaying of pain, and instead feeling the unmitigated overness of the evil, the evildoer often looks quite different: flawed, like me, a child of God, like me. Forgiven, like me. — Nevada Barr

it's an attitude that mostly comes from immaturity, low self-esteem, and feelings of social powerlessness, and adolescence is a petri dish for those kinds of breeding conditions. I — Elliott James

I developed a pathological pride and the insane conviction that it was my mission to teach people without knowing what I was teaching them. — Leo Tolstoy

What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them — Courtney Milan

That's why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. — Frantz Fanon

Why do we believe one stranger and not another? — Todd Strasser

They sat on the back porch and looked at the stars while Zombie told the story of a queen named Cassiopeia who lived forever on a throne in the sky.
"But her throne's tilted down," Sam said, looking at the constellation. "Won't she fall out?"
Zombie cleared his throat. "She won't fall. Her throne is turned that way so she can keep watch over her realm."
"What's a realm?"
Zombie pressed his hand against Sam's chest.
"This is." Zombie's hand to Sam's heart. "Here. — Rick Yancey

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere. — Brom

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality. — Elizabeth Bowen

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours. — Garrison Keillor

His throat bulges queerly, as men's throats do: as if inviting the blow that will crush it. — Sarah Waters

If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures. — John Piper