Dr Aditi Sheth > Dr Aditi's Quotes

“If you [can realise Brahman] by standing on your head, or on one foot, or by worshipping five thousand gods with three heads each — welcome to it! ... Do it any way you can! Nobody has any right to say anything. Therefore, Krishna says, if your method is better and higher, you have no business to say that another man’s method is bad, however wicked you may think it.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Later on we read what Krishna says, “Even those who worship other deities are really worshipping me” (note 31). It is God incarnate whom man is worshipping. Would God be angry if you called Him by the wrong name? He would be no God at all! Can’t you understand that whatever a man has in his own heart is God — even if he worships a stone? What of that! We will understand more clearly if we once get rid of the idea that religion consists in doctrines. One idea of religion has been that the whole world was born because Adam ate the apple, and there is no way of escape. Believe in Jesus Christ — in a certain man’s death! But in India there is quite a different idea. [There] religion means realisation, nothing else. It does not matter whether one approaches the destination in a carriage with four horses, in an electric car, or rolling on the ground. The goal is the same. For the [Christians] the problem is how to escape the wrath of the terrible God. For the Indians it is how to become what they really are, to regain their lost Selfhood. ...”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Power is being told you are not loved... and not being destroyed by it.”
― Madonna

“While the 1960s and 1970s were turbulent times for US–Pakistan ties, Pakistan again became closely allied with the United States in the 1980s, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Pakistan argued that US military assistance was required to expand the Pakistan Army, ostensibly because doing so would enable Pakistan to better counter the emerging Soviet threat, even though Pakistan sought this assistance to strengthen its position vis-à-vis India. Consequently, with US military and economic assistance, by 1989, the Pakistan Army had grown to nearly 450,000 and had become increasingly reliant upon US weapon systems.”
― C. Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

“I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something in your work they never knew existed, and hopefull after reading it, want nothihng to do with it ever in real life, because it is so beautifully depraved.”
― Jane Brooke

“A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the woodstove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.”
― Sarah Silverman, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Keep writing. The only failure is in not trying at all.”
― Erzabet Bishop

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
― Madonna

“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”
― Madonna

“I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too. ”
― Madonna

“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

“It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.”
― Madonna

“Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.”
― Madonna

“I always thought I should be treated like a star.”
― Madonna

“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”
― Madonna

“T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.”
― Madonna, Too Good to Be True

“Only love can last.”
― Madonna

“Beauty is where you find it.”
― Madonna

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”
― Madonna

“If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.”
― Madonna

“If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay”
― Madonna, Madonna: Greatest Hits Volume 2

“We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?”
― Madonna

“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”
― Madonna