Savitri Aurobindo Quotes & Sayings

If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react — Charles Benoit

When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. — Robert A. Heinlein

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible ... — Plato

You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left. — Trevor Nunn

I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others. — Ahmed H. Zewail

I have family in Oklahoma City. — Blake Shelton

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,
And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower. — D.H. Lawrence

The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance — Pope Benedict XVI

The difference between men and women is this
if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of. — Deb Baker

What touches your heart is meaning. — John De Ruiter

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. — Thomas Guthrie

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king! — Walter Scott

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart — Sri Aurobindo

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start. — Napoleon Hill

But though hast come and all will surely change. — Sri Aurobindo