Quotes & Sayings About Tamil Tradition

The best defenses against the terrors of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs. It is through love and work, as Freud noted in a characteristically pungent remark, that we exchange crippling emotional conflict for ordinary unhappiness. Love and work enable each of us to explore a small corner of the world and to come to accept it on its own terms. But our society tends either to devalue small comforts or else to expect too much of them. Our standards of "creative, meaningful work" are too exalted to survive disappointment. Our ideal of "true romance" puts an impossible burden on personal relationships. We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves. — Christopher Lasch

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance. — Suzanne Farrell

We may not have the power yet, but what we have is each other.' My — Jodi Picoult

The truest politeness comes of sincerity. — Samuel Smiles

The hand has the richest articulation of space. — Eduardo Chillida

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country. — Dasha Zhukova

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. — Stephen Covey

Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals. — Michael D. O'Brien

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. — Halldor Laxness

For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me. — M.L. Rio

I remember thinking when the girls were born, first one and then the other, that I should have had sons and not daughters. I didn't feel up to daughters, I didn't know how they worked. I must have been afraid of hating them. With sons I would have known what to do. — Margaret Atwood

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock. — Ahmed Mostafa