"By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization."

-- Ramana Maharshi

#Self Quotes #Inquiry Quotes #Burning Quotes

“I was born in 1962 and the room next to me was 1963.”
“The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.”
“Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.”
“The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.”
“I don't want people to leave the show being upset. So if I am trying to do a new joke, and sometimes I will talk about things like gun control or hostile massacre and I notice people being upset I will change the direction.”
“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life”
“I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.”
“I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.”

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