Shabd Vichar Quotes & Sayings

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished. — John James Audubon

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure. — Alexis De Tocqueville

One word can lift a mind.
One smile can soothe a heart.
One touch can heal a soul.
One act can change the world. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My teeth rip skin; my jaws snap bones. I am fast, lightning-fast, snuff - oh-was-that-your-life? - oh-was-that-your-life? - fast. — Eliza Crewe

Yet how proud we are,
In daring to look down upon ourselves! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer. — J.M. Coetzee

The best protection any woman can have ... is courage. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Slight and ridiculous as the incident was, it made him appear such a little fiend, and withal such a keen and knowing one, that the old woman felt too much afraid of him to utter a single word, and suffered herself to be led with extraordinary politeness to the breakfast-table. Here he by no means diminished the impression he had just produced, for he ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigantic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and water-cresses at the same time and with extraordinary greediness, drank boiling tea without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women were nearly frightened out of their wits, and began to doubt if he were really a human creature. — Charles Dickens

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines. — Aldo Leopold

The purpose of philosophy isn't complex theorizing, it is simple and clear thinking in relation to life's big questions. — Steven Colborne

With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again. — Marty Rubin

Everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person and using it at his own will," Jefferson said.72 "This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because it is necessary for his own sustenance. — Jon Meacham

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more majestic than his Passion; even his anxiety is sublime. And God never denies his attributes to those who are his light in the world. They shine like stars in the cosmos, and even their anxiety, if God allows it, bears the marks of their divine destiny. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali. — Chip Conley