Parameshwari Amman Quotes & Sayings

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation. — Heidi Heilig

Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. — George R R Martin

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. — Georges Duhamel

What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough? — Bernard Beckett

Evil has a way of propagating like a plague. Where plague is a disease of the body, evil is a disease of the soul. It spreads through our actions: an act of evil done to someone infests their soul, so that they desire to do evil in return. And evil grows with each turn, the revenge act must be the greater. The best way to deal with evil is to turn it into something good, before it has the chance to spread. Each of us has the ability to have evil stop with us.
Anonymous. The Treatise of Wisdom (Kindle Locations 4492-4494). Unknown. — Anonymous

Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish. — L. Neil Smith

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay. — Scott Adams

When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see. — Gae Aulenti

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing. — Adam Clarke

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men. — Doc Pomus

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons. — Gloria Steinem

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. — William Cowper

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it. — Shirley Abbott