Kriyananda Books Quotes & Sayings

History books report one war after another. 'History' is the dates of wars, who won and who lost. But in truth, no one ever wins a war. Someone obtained the spoils, but no one wins.

'Intermediate Guide To Meditation — Kriyananda

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock. — Nostradamus

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates. — Dustin Pedroia

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered. — Lee Strobel

It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly. — Barbra Streisand

I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that. — Luke Pritchard

We see that reason is wholly instrumental. It cannot tell us where to go; at best it can tell us how to get there. It is a
gun for hire that can be employed in the service of whatever goals we have, good or bad. — Herbert Simon

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language. — Charles J. Shields

security - the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable - was illusory and even dangerous. — Theodore Dalrymple

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. — George Eliot

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder. — Hartley Coleridge

Like we forget about everything else. Because when you don't admit out loud that someone awful has happened, who is to say it ever did? — Jodi Picoult

One problem with lyrical waxing, as Snediker has it, is that it often signals (or occasions) an infatuation with overarching concepts or figures that can run roughshod over the specificities of the situation at hand. — Maggie Nelson

And given how much of the evil and ugliness of the present world can be traced to money, can you imagine what the world will be like when money has been transformed? — Charles Eisenstein