Srivatsan Quotes & Sayings

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. — Barbara Kingsolver

Whether rich or poor, following the Should Life will lead to heartache and struggle. Leading your life will lead to places you never thought you'd be, people you never thought you'd meet, knowledge you never thought you'd gain, and a life of adventure and growth. Lead your life; not the Should Life. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony. — Bob Dylan

The biggest enemy of success is the fear of failure — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Let people become the persons they want to be, not the person you want them to be. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor wanted a replacement mother. Fate had seen fit to remove her biological mother, so she figured that was the way it was supposed to be. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

As an aspiring actress, having casual one-nighters, doing drugs and travelling to foreign locales at the drop of a dime was simply part of the landscape. One which Charm wholeheartedly and enthusiastically embraced. Peaches was far too familiar with Charm's wild escapade's to do more than raise an eyebrow to her casual gutter talk. One story had involved two Egyptian police officers, half a pound of weed, and if there were such a thing, one of the minor pyramids. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Do not row your boat,
In the backwaters of past. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

I can be surrounded by a sea of people and still feel all alone ... — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

When the true love will blossom, it will be the most beautiful flower. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

These kissed life on the mouth - and were eaten. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. — James Broughton

Be Free!, That I want to Be ! — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

When a straight man puts on a dress and gets his sexual kicks, he is a transvestite. When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body and has a little operation, he is a Transsexual. When a gay man has WAY too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen. And when a tired little Latin boy puts on a dress, he is simply a boy in a dress! — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us
because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

women lose control when they're afraid and that men lose control when they're in love. — Vu Tran

I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone that someone is probably the last person you should ask — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man. — Nelson A. Miles

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday - because of a doctor's arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are clinicians, scientists. We observe time-honored procedures and analyses - that's how we are trained. And this is what happens when we subjugate that training to arrogance! — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

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Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a 'person-of-the-arts,' limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind's music, the calligraphy of their roots pure poetry, rhyming earth and berth. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

When Time is giving you chance by chance to be with the person that you really love and you miss them all, you start to believe that you'll never find that person again in this life. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun. — C.S. Lewis

Seemed like a good idea on paper. — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Because Of You, My Heart Exploded Into Stars — Tirumalai S. Srivatsan