Inspirational Quotes - Page 428

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

Life is a matter of choice. Everything we manifest in our day to day lives is the direct result of our choices along the way. Each choice automatically creates a consequence. From our choices other people's lives are influenced for better or worse.

During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

Keep going and the Lord will help you.

Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.

Making films has never just been a job to me, it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going, it's what I do, it gives life purpose.

O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.