Neelesh Mishra Quotes & Sayings

The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top ... there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression. — Michael Foley

I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers. — Edmund Marlowe

My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you! — Frank Herbert

Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici.
I do no harm by remaining here. — Richard Powers

Then a woman of good character will be very attracted to you, will consider you a wonderful potential husband, even if she does not show it." Avelina had to swallow the lump that rose into her throat. "She will count herself fortunate to have secured your good opinion." He — Melanie Dickerson

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work. — Steve Yegge

No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we'll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn. — J.D. Jordan

He who despairs is wrong. — Victor Hugo

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking. — Debra Messing

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery. — Giuliana Rancic

Striving is fine, as long as it's tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome - so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. That, to use a loaded term, is enlightened self-interest. — Dan Harris

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived. — Yuri Kochiyama

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence. — James MacDonald

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word ... which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' — Tim Sandlin

O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts ... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people. — Pope John XXIII