"As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces."

-- Wendy Doniger

#Real Quotes #Class Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.”
“Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.”
“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
“There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.”
“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

Source : Eric Berne (2011). “Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis”, p.156, Tantor eBooks
“Just eat less and exercise more.”
“In a traditional Western there's always the bravado, and it's almost like they're winking that they know they're in a Western - "Look how good I can spin my gun." In real life, when the bad guy kills somebody, or they're bad guy friend gets killed, they're upset, too, which is not typical in Westerns.”
“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.”

Source : Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.26, Penguin

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