Prashansa Patra Quotes & Sayings

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being. — Vernon Howard

I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen. — Christina Baker Kline

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly. — Kesha

The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them. — Leigh Bardugo

Greatness is never achieved through indecision. — John Ortberg

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved? ... But cold morning would return, with clouds billowing out of Lightning Gorge like giant smoke, the lake below still cerulean neutral, and empty space the same as ever. O gnashing teeth of earth, where would it all lead to but to prove that the proving itself was nil ... — Jack Kerouac

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity — Lauryn Hill

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. — David Cassidy

We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life. — Winston S. Churchill

In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is the choice that loses. Ecclesiastical history, like any other, is written by the victors. — Eric A. Eliason

I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. — Abu Bakr

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion. — Jeanette Lee

Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time! — Pink Floyd

But Michael was out of sight. She waited. Were it not for the ballast of her big belly, she would casually stand, stretch a bit, casually stretch her neck until she got a glimpse of him. Casually because her husband said she worried too much, fretted too much, and would eventually infect their boys with her fearfulness - had, perhaps, already, in Jacob's case, infected them with her fearfulness. So she waited, trusting, but feeling, too, the pins-and-needles prick of blown sand on her cheek and her forearm (was the wind changing?) until, sure enough, there was the top of his head, the tip of his plastic machine gun, just over the next dune. — Alice McDermott