"You must purge yourself before finding faults in others."

-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Inspiring Quotes #Faults Quotes #Findings Quotes

“As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.”
“People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'”
“Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.”

Source : Anna Deavere Smith (2001). “Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines”, p.134, Random House
“Have faith in all that you make.”
“It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.”
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly...”
“Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.”
“My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.”

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