Maa Durga Devi Quotes & Sayings

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation. — Henry A. Kissinger

What you don't understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don't believe. Hard lines. — Doris Lessing

I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages. — Arthur Ruppin

Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

And like any dog, like any savage, I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil, smiled on by the sun, bent over by the trees, and softly folded in the arms of the earth. — John Stewart Collis

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Then, while Cinnamon straightened up the kitchen as usual, Nutmeg and I sat at a small table, drinking tea. She ate only one slice of toast, with a little butter. Outside, a cold, sleety rain was falling. Nutmeg said little, and I said little - a few remarks about the weather. She seemed to have something she wanted to say, though. That much was clear from the look on her face and the way she spoke. She tore off stamp-sized pieces of toast and transported them, one at a time, to her mouth. We looked out at the rain now and then, as if it were our longtime mutual friend. — Haruki Murakami

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were. — Valerie June