Janakas Obituary Quotes & Sayings

It is simply not true that "religion" is always aggressive. Sometimes it has actually put a brake on violence. In the ninth century BCE, Indian ritualists extracted all violence from the liturgy and created the ideal of ahimsa, "nonviolence." The medieval Peace and Truce of God forced knights to stop terrorizing the poor and outlawed violence from Wednesday to Sunday each week. Most dramatically, after the Bar Kokhba war, the rabbis reinterpreted the scriptures so effectively that Jews refrained from political aggression for a millennium. Such successes have been rare. Because of the inherent violence of the states in which we live, the best that prophets and sages have been able to do is provide an alternative. — Karen Armstrong

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy. — Jay Maisel

Then and only then will you realize that your greatest enemy isn't what you fight but what you fear. — Virginia Boecker

A good joke is life laughing at itself. — Marty Rubin

Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanley. I'll be she loved you. — Catherine Fisher

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. — Benjamin Disraeli

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go. — Sissy Spacek

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography. — Jerry Uelsmann