Satya Narayan Goenka Quotes & Sayings

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. — J. Gresham Machen

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home. — Eric Jerome Dickey

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down. — Mata Amritanandamayi

A cloud, hitherto unseen, came upon the moon, and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face.The illusion went with it, and the lights in the windows were extinguished. I looked upon a desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.
The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. When I thought of Manderley in my waking hours I would not be bitter. I should think of it as it might have been, could I have lived there without fear. I should remember the rose-garden in summer, and the birds that sang at dawn.Tea under the chestnut tree, and the murmur of the sea coming up to us from the lawns below.
I would think of the blown lilac, and the Happy Valley. These things were permanent, they could not be dissolved.They were memories that cannot hurt. — Daphne Du Maurier

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different. — Alice Cooper

Felines are probably more loyal than a man. — Susan Hatler

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief. — Ruth Rendell

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent — Becca Fitzpatrick

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them. — Munia Khan

There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they — Sarah Monette

Elora had it put in while you were gone. She's — Amanda Hocking

Why not think that sometimes - just sometimes - you can overcome evil with silence? And let people hear their hatefulness in their own ears, without distraction. Maybe goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is, sometimes. — Sylvain Reynard

For the first time in his life, Michael understood why real soldiers coming back from real wars often had a hard time getting over the things they'd seen and done. And had done to them. If Michael had a soul, it was starting to leak out of his hopes. — James Dashner

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon