"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present."

-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Inspirational Quotes #Today Quotes #Gift From God Quotes

“Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

Source : Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, April 17, 1787.
“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.
“You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others”

Source : "Don’t abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal, embrace it to build regional peace" by Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2017.
“I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.”
“Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.”
“For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name ...”
“endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

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