Soubhagyalaxmi Quotes & Sayings

It's not Love. But what fault is it of mine
if my affections do not become
Love? Very much my fault, I would say,
when I can live from day to day
on mad purity, blind pity ...
Make a scandal of meekness.
But the violence of the senses and intellect
that has confounded me for years
was the only way. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. — Rebecca Solnit

A misfortune never makes me uneasy provided I know in what it consists; but it is my nature to be afraid of darkness, I tremble at the appearance of it.
The sight of the most hideous monster would, I am of opinion, alarm me but little; but if by night I were to see a figure in a white sheet I should be afraid of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Art is science in the flesh. — Jean Cocteau

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there. — Frederick Carl Frieseke

As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking. The term ego means different things to different people, but when I use it here it means a false self, created by unconscious identification with the mind. — Anonymous

Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had done nothing to make any human being remember that he had lived, and that to connect his name with the events transpiring in his day and generation and so impress himself upon them as to link his name with something that would redound to the interest of his fellow man was what he desired to live for. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Without a vision, we are easy destructed by the storm's of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone ... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. — Kahlil Gibran

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace. — Timothy Keller

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be. — Mark Barrowcliffe

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty. — Jerry Hall

Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he couldn't help but shudder: Beneath the splendor
the filigreed blossoms, the microscopic stars
was a ghastly inevitability; crystals could not escape their embedded blueprints any more than humans could. Everything hewed to a rigidity of pattern, the certainty of death. — Anthony Doerr

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general. — Albert Bushnell Hart