Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelsang Gyatso

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to You. I meditate on You continually. The village was in ruins, but You have re-populated it. I am a sacrifice to You.

Atharva Veda

He established the many worlds and skies. The soul is illumined with His Light; no one can revoke His Blessing. Meditate, meditate in remembrance on God, and become fearless.

Madeline Zima

I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

Roy Horn

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

Mike Love

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

Granth Sahib

You send out the call, Lord, to those who meditate on Your Name.

Sathya Baba

Meditate on what you read and think of God.

Subhash Chandra

I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.

Granth Sahib

I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name.

Max Cleland

He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have.

Richard Baxter

For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.

Rebecca West

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

Rose Macaulay

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

Rick Riordan

True success requires sacrifice.

Richard DeVos

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

William Robertson Smith

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

William S. Burroughs

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Marshall McLuhan

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Patrick McGoohan

We all live in a little Village,

Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Peter Carey

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.