Quotes & Sayings About Vesak Day

We have to wonder what this might suggest about the relationship between the public realm and private lives in our settlement.
Some have proposed that we need to do more in encouraging individual interests and pursuits, even if they don't appear terribly useful or practical, to bolster and deepen those inner reserves that "make" a person into who she is, and how, by extension, she identifies and values herself. Other, more conservative, voices balk at this, countering that we need, in fact, to strengthen the bonds of the commune, so that to end one's own life would be tantamount to a grievous assault on us all ... But if we calm ourselves and open our eyes and step back far enough, we have to admit that our society, if not fundamentally unwell, has been profoundly wounded. — Chang-rae Lee

It's still difficult for me to watch my work. — Sheryl Lee

I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back. — Pastor Maldonado

Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you. — Ko Joon-hee

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey ... Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul ... Love says, You are right, but don't claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite. — Rumi

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace

I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to. — Selena Gomez

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. — Christopher Paolini

There's no need to fear the oblivion after we're gone if we never cared about the oblivion that came before we were born. Cheer up. Death obsessing is for boozy existentialists and bad poets. — Tom Jokinen

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. — Thein Sein

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting — Gertrude Stein

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi

The apostle Paul says in Romans 13:14, "Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature." In other words, do not put yourself in a place where you can fall. — Ravi Zacharias

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. — Plato