Smriti Mohan Quotes & Sayings

I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death. — David Gemmell

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims ... That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy. — Rollo May

Scared is scared of things you like. — Asa

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table. — Bill Moyers

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. — Robert Plant

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. — Thomas Hood

[And while people ran about proclaiming such things,] I could only think that everything exists because of loss. From the bricks of our buildings, from cement to human cells, everything exists because of chemical transformation, and every chemical transformation is accompanied by loss. And when I look up at the night sky I think: The astronomers have given every star a number. — Anne Michaels

The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered. — Ilchi Lee

If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose. — Gary T. Smith

Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*. — Stephen King

But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we're certain their life cycles have long since been extinguished. How long will it take for my own roots to loosen their grip? — Allison Winn Scotch

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself. — James Boswell

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself. — Nick Hornby

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. — Robert Kiyosaki