Kaivalya Upanishad Quotes & Sayings

What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away? — Jonathan Larson

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. — Chuck Palahniuk

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character. — O.J. Simpson

They didn't have to be true to be good. — Mercedes Lackey

There is something in the pose of sleeping women. Something soft and slight and slenderly surreal. He understands why painters are so often challenged to attempt them, and why so seldom they succeed. It must exceed the scope of canvas - the implausibility of rendering motion within rest. She is deeply asleep, immovably asleep - and yet she moves. Tiny spasms quiver her legs and tug at her fingers. Lips purse to open, part, then softly close again. Dreaming eyes agitate the surface of their lids. Hands resting on the stomach, rise and fall in rhythm with the pulse that ticks along the valleys of her neck. Even bespeckled with bites like this, there is a beauty to this girl and in this pose well beyond the scope of two dimensions. — Scott Gardiner

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. — Christopher Morley

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies. — Ruth Bernhard

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm

Apart from Christ, we cannot stand against our own hearts. The verses above presume that we will struggle with sin, but they warn us not to declare any sin a "sanctifiable" character quality, even if through it we may learn valuable lessons about life. Learning lessons is not God's first priority for his children. Transformed character is. I learned here that God may, in his providence, bring good from my past, but the good that comes is not because of the sin, but in spite of it. It is very tempting to see "good" in those things that tempt us to sin or lead us to sin because then we don't seem nearly as corrupt as Original Sin renders us. According to God, sinful temptations are inclinations to do something or become something that cost Jesus his life for my sake. We are not to try to ransom it on our own terms. Suggesting that our sin is good or produces good is tantamount to calling cancer good health. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older. — William Gibson

His hesitation. Is it a — Diana Gabaldon

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way. — Christina Aguilera

these lovely, lying children, I saw very clearly that there was no redemption here. — Suki Kim