"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."

-- Swami Vivekananda

#Inspirational Quotes #Fire Quotes #Faults Quotes

“The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.”
“His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.”
“We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.”
“The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press
“Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.”
“I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and all that chronological 'and then this happened and then blah blah' doesn't appeal to me that much. I think there's more mystique in what you don't know about.”
“I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.”
“She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”

Source : In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter

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