Vasudhaiva Quotes & Sayings

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter. — Pete Townshend

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable. — Aimee Mann

I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'. — Narendra Modi

Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance. — Laurence Boldt

We need faith to trust that God doesn't merely "know what's best for us," but that he is what's best for us no matter what our circumstances are. — Gloria Furman

Suspected he was a bleeding-heart lib, and he probably thought I was a right-wing warmonger. But since we never knew for sure how the other felt, we generally got along. I — James Patterson

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy. — Sylvester Stallone

It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start. — Auliq Ice

Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better. — Tariq Ramadan

Too often, and in too many ways, we remain timid when we should be bold, fearful when we are called to be unafraid, and beholden to the principalities and powers when both the prophets of scripture and the prophets of today exhort us to rethink our allegiances. We have become the church of the Empire, the very thing Jesus urged both Jews and Gentiles of his own time to rise up against. We go through great theological contortions to prod the gospel into a justification for our comfort and complacency, and fail to recognize the vast spiritual pit that we dig for ourselves in the process. — Rick Ufford-Chase

Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet. — Bill Bryson

Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain. — Garth Stein

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration ... — Wayne D. Dosick

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it. — Salman Rushdie

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children. — Cornelia Funke

They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is. — Ted Koppel