Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17
Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.
When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
To kill nothing, that is love.
. . we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.
You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.