"To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice."

-- Swami Vivekananda

#Christian Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Islamic Quotes

“The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.”

Source : Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.477, University of Arizona Press
“Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 31, 2013
“For as long as I can remember I've had memories.”
“And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.”
“What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.”
“To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.”
“I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.”
“No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”

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