Tamasic Quotes & Sayings

The sattvic perform sacrifices with their entire mind fixed on the purpose of the sacrifice. Without thought of reward, they follow the teachings of the scriptures. 12 The rajasic perform sacrifices for the sake of show and the good it will bring them. 13 The tamasic perform sacrifices ignoring both the letter and the spirit. They omit the proper prayers, the proper offerings, the proper food, and the proper faith. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

I've stopped talking because there's really nothing left to say and there's this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I'm even having a heart attack, but it doesn't seem worth mentioning. — Suzanne Collins

Leamas saw. He saw the long road outside
Rotterdam, the long straight road beside the
dunes, and the stream of refugees moving
along it; saw the little aeroplane miles away,
the procession stop and look towards it; and
the plane coming in, nearly over the dunes;
saw the chaos, the meaningless hell, as the
bombs hit the road.
"I can't talk like this, Control," Leamas
said at last. "What do you want me to do? — John Le Carre

The world we want is an enormous responsibility. — Paul Polman

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life always fights with the thoughts against life by presenting us the excellent beauties of life! What keeps us in life is this precious efforts of life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life. — W. Somerset Maugham

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life. — Wayne Dyer

life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of our self-pity. — John Turner

We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening. — Bailey White

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much. — Jimmy Nail

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level. — Leonardo DiCaprio

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties. — Kenneth Grahame