Tellings Golden Quotes & Sayings

A world created by observation evokes insight, hence affection, for we see the hunger and fear of all beings. Life becomes a performance on a stage (ranga-bhoomi) aimed to nourish and comfort the other, while deriving nourishment and comfort from their delight. Krishna's performance (leela) leads to him being worshipped as Ranga-natha, lord of the stage. He never judges, so he sees no one as a victim. This is how he begins The Gita: — Devdutt Pattanaik

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. — Eli Whitney

I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. — Nancy Reagan

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. — Pablo Picasso

There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life. — Jimmy Wayne

The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid. — Tanya Biank

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones. — Don Rickles

And in friendship and still more here, in this central business of love, accident rules it seems to me almost altogether. What personalities you will encounter in life, and have for a chief interest in life, is nearly as much a matter of chance as the drift of a grain of pollen in the pine forest. And once the light hazard has blown it has blown, never to drive again. — H.G.Wells

The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not. — Frederick Lenz