Sanskrit Light Quotes & Sayings

Art is long, and Time is fleeting. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide. — Dale McGowan

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times? — Isaac Asimov

A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. — Nanette Newman

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. — Mark Twain

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia. — Emm Cole

Apo deepa bhawa"Sanskrit ; Be a light upon yourself
Buddha to Ananda during his last talks — Buddha Gautama

I've had more people in my life take their lives than ... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. — Paul Westerberg

I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they? — Janice Hardy

The artist, the poet, the musician and the philosopher show in their gifts throughout their lives the heritage of the jinn. The words genius and jinn come from a Sanskrit word Jnana, which means knowledge. The jinns. Therefore, are the beings of knowledge; whose hunger is for knowledge, whose joy is in learning, in understanding, and whose work is in inspiring, and bring light and joy to others. In every kind of knowledge that exists, the favorite knowledge to a jinn is the knowledge of truth, in which is the fulfillment of its life's purpose. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies. — Bob Dylan

The white cat symbolizes the silvery moon prying into corners and cleansing the sky for the day to follow. The white cat is "the cleaner" or "the animal that cleans itself," described by the Sanskrit word Margaras, which means "the hunter who follows the track; the investigator; the skip tracer." The white cat is the hunter and the killer, his path lighted by the silvery moon. All dark, hidden places and beings are revealed in that inexorably gentle light. You can't shake your white cat because your white cat is you. You can't hide from your white cat because your white cat hides with you. — William S. Burroughs

A big heavy phrase is easier to handle if it comes at the end, when your work assembling the overarching phrase is done and nothing else is on you mind. (It's another version of the advice to prefer right-branching trees over left-branching and center-embedded ones.) Light-before-heavy is one of the oldest principles in linguistics, having been discovered in the fourth century BCE by the Sanskrit grammarian Panini. It often guides the intuitions of writers when they have to choose an order for items in a list, as in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle; and Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! — Steven Pinker

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing. — Jacques Lacan

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. — Bernice Johnson Reagon