Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Quotes & Sayings

Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'. — Dada Bhagwan

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that. — David Hockney

The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing of their self-satisfaction - as it were a hidden seed of madness, a confidence that they can move the world without precise notion of standing-place or lever. — George Eliot

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it. — Ally Carter

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time. — Kofi Annan

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne

Some days the weather happens and we never look up or go outside and that's okay too. — Joseph Fink

Whereas this ... this was wet. His lips sank into a rhythm obviously familiar to him - like a kind of slow rock over her mouth - and there were times when she felt his tongue, hot and slippery. Times when he insinuated himself right against her and that same slipperiness made her go all funny inside. — Charlotte Stein

I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope. — Kevin Keck

Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind. — Baruch Spinoza

It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience of past few months, I can say that we have removed that gloom from the minds of the people. — Narendra Modi

Each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal. — Vikram Seth

I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone. — Dana Gould