"We considered behaving, but it's against our nature."

--

O.R. Melling

“The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.”
“I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.”
“I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.”
“Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.”
“It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.”
“No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.”

Source : Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”
“Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.”
“In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.”

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