Rukmani Devi Quotes & Sayings

If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all? — David Augsburger

Protestant insistence on the written word in the Bible as the only and sufficient Christian authority for faith and practice relies on an impossible anachronism that artificially projects a modern standard of authority and means of knowledge conveyance retrospectively back into a pre-modern reality that operated by different but reliable and legitimate standards. — Christian Smith

Money is like a child - rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there. — Lemony Snicket

People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference. — Lionel Suggs

She puts one leg in the car and says, "I guess now you know you're not the only freak." It's the nicest thing she's ever said to me. — Jennifer Niven

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15). — Barbara Kingsolver