Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Paton

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Chogyam Trungpa

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Rumi

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Rosa Luxemburg

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.

Susan Cain

Every American was to become a performing self.

Sugata Mitra

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is self-transcendence

Sri Chinmoy

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

Sri Chinmoy

At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.

Sri Chinmoy

The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.