Swamaan Quotes & Sayings

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Kindness is not "niceness." Kindness does not avoid conflict; kindness engages conflict, but with a goal of reconciliation. — Russell D. Moore

A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book. — Laurence Sterne

In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance. — Dada Bhagwan

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. — Sean Bean

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality. — Dada Bhagwan

The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain. — Erika Robuck

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. — Dada Bhagwan