Sreedharan Deepak Quotes & Sayings

It's our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth — Kloby

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed. — Ricky Martin

One block at a time. — Willie T. Ong

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it. — Charles Spurgeon

By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality. — Milton Friedman

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage

Approaching the Start of Civil Exams

Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar
approaching the start of civil exams,
my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion
with books on syntax and poetic style.

All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains
and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples
that grew in the valleys of my province.

But I had been gone over six years
busy with studies in the Heavenly City
empty and thin despite my work.

I showed my verses to an older poet
who told me a truth I longed to believe:
all knowledge is futile and barren
which does not open the love of your friends. — Jim Chapson