"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."

-- Ramakrishna

#Important Quotes #Bamboo Quotes #Stones Quotes

“I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.”
“Life always brings you what you need.”
“Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.”
“When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.”

Source : Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press
“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”
“I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.”
“You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.”
“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”

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