"Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."

-- Sophocles

#Sides Quotes #Fortune Quotes #Hearted Quotes

“I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.”
“But there is that certain something about wanting to do the will of God. If one is sincere and if one really wants to know what His will is, all one has to do is be quiet. Shut off the television and radio, and in that silence one will always hear that still small voice in one's heart telling him what to do.”
“Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.”

Source : Jerome Frank (2017). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.231, Routledge
“Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.”
“Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.”
“When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may' be 'slightly' less hideous. But it is all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.”
“We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.”
“The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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