Vichardhara Quotes & Sayings

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence. — Tracy Morgan

Then, as the storm burst round him, he
rose slowly to his feet and turned his closed eyes toward the Sea.
And the world whistled in his ears. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan. — Catherine McCormack

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt

I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and to perpetually renew your repentance to Him, even if you should repeat as in seventy times in a day. — Ibn Ata Allah

You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours. — Kenneth Patchen

A centuries-old message from my depths, it warned me to guard against myself, and go running in the sun. — Goliarda Sapienza

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied. — Abraham Lincoln

Loneliness is the diary keeper's lover. It is not narcissism that takes them to their desk every day. And who "keeps" whom, after all? The diary is demanding; it imposes its routine; it must be chored the way one must milk a cow; and it alters your attitude toward life, which is lived, finally, only in order that it may makes it way to the private page.
[From "Fifty Literary Pillars", p.35] — William H Gass

In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. He could not even remember what he had written in some of the tablets, and he realized that several were filled principally with doodling. However, Ignatius thought calmly, Rome was not built in a day. — John Kennedy Toole

We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path. — Mark Nepo

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. — Mahavira

Let the apple ripen
on the branch
beyond your need
to take it down. — David Whyte

You have to decide. Are you gonna trust God no matter how the situation looks? Or not? — Sandra Orchard