Taivaan Helmi Quotes & Sayings

She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love. — Nora Roberts

The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done. — Swami Vivekananda

I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London. — Jan Struther

You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode. — Anita Brookner

Have a shower, Si," George urged. "Start the day refreshed. Maybe style your hair a little. It wouldn't kill you."
Simon shook his head. "There's a dead rat in the bathroom, George. I am not going in the bathroom, George."
"He's not dead," George said. "He's sleeping. I'm certain of it."
"Senseless optimism is how plagues get started," Simon said. "Ask the medieval peasants of Europe. Oh, wait, you can't."
"Were they a jolly bunch?" George asked skeptically.
"I'm sure they were much jollier before all the plague," said Simon. — Cassandra Clare

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. — Steffi Graf

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind. — Helen Oyeyemi

I've learned that you cannot fulfill your destiny if you're not being yourself; you can't fulfill your destiny, trying to be somebody else. We are created unique not so that we can fit in, but so that we can stand out. — Jeanette Coron

An organized home is a haven. — Monika Kristofferson

Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. But they are also unconscious. — Malcolm Gladwell

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel