"... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing."

-- George Eliot

#Perfect Quotes #Imperfection Quotes #Inward Quotes

“Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.”
“Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.”

Source : Melanie Klein (1975). “The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works”
“A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.”
“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”
“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
“Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.”
“This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “The Wounded Land”, p.42, Del Rey
“There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?”

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