Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.
A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.
I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you.
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.