Inspirational Book Quotes

“Hunger
You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“The Losing of Love . . . Like discovering a shard of heaven’s handwriting in the snowflake that has landed upon your hand, desperately wishing you could give such beauty to your best friend before it melts away. And what you are left with is an exquisite regret—the eloquent conspiracy of memory—of the moment lived and the moment wished for that never will arrive.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Once we learn to control our mind,
It becomes easy to control our life.”
― Sudesh Abrol

“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization—of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Walk with me now into the very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives.”
― Carew Papritz

“She was created and being created was no small thing”
― Jamie Jo Wright

“When you close your eyes, do you actually stop seeing?
Who is observing the darkness then?”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Emotions and feelings are like this sand. Circumstances are like the beach. You, my dear, are like your sunglasses. If you are in a dire circumstance, emotions and feelings, the less pleasurable ones, perhaps, the more painful ones will cling to you. On the other hand, if the circumstances you are in are the best, perhaps, the one with a lover or family, a pleasant set of emotions and feelings cling to your personality. Just like the sand clinging to your glasses is natural on a beach, emotions and feelings clinging to your personality are natural products of diverse circumstances.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“ Perhaps, it is the words, and in turn, the many meanings that divide us. Neither the body nor the mind; Neither the distance nor the time, just words.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Meditation is a transaction, you take back energy from the moments that drained you and give them a new meaning.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“I imagine standing in the center of this house of mirrors and looking at my infinite reflections.
Each of the personalities we live, if they are just reflections on the mirror, then they are illusions. What we strive for is to unlearn the vocabulary, energy, and awareness of each of these reflections to reach our dissolving ‘self’, the one standing in the center. The observer.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Everything in that flow – the many pains and pleasures – are just an ephemeral burst of energy. At the end of it, they are as much on the fabric of nothingness as life. It means nothing. We mean nothing.
The atman has a purpose, not the identity we assume.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“The baggage of past memories, the present contradictions, and the many choices from the future. “They are all just words,” I say, as I become aware of my breath. My bong feels ignored, my mind feels betrayed and the incessant pain in my chest ceases. I drop everything.
I let go.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Our actions within, build our health. Our actions beyond, build our wealth.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“When we become self-aware, we realize what kind of partner will be happy with us. More than our happiness, we respect the happiness of the other, and in that, we find the right kind of love.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Our ego feeds on the validation of others, our self feeds on evolution with others. That our purpose, perhaps, is to survive but survival here is not to cut the throat of ‘others’ but to evolve with them.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Kill the Buddha. In the desire of becoming Buddha, you walk away from it. To desire peace is to invite conflict. To pursue calm is to ruffle up anger within. Don’t you get it? You are in conflict to remove conflict.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Desires incite thoughts. Thoughts transpire actions,” Buddha smiles, “I never say no to desire. To judge desire is to add words. To not desire is just an act in illusion.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Mistakes you must make, the pain you should face, cry you must for it is the journey. The journey is what it is all about,” Buddha says. “You are a human after all.”
― Shukla Ji, Buddha's House of Mirrors

“Lord Buddha Said "A strong mind is not affected by the dualities of praise and
blame. It does not seek validation or approval from others, nor
does it allow criticism to undermine its confidence. Instead, it
remains grounded in its own inherent strength and wisdom.”
― Dr. Shitalkumar R. Sukhdeve, Whole-Self Prosperity: Stepping up on a Transformative Journey to Manifest Abundance and Wholeness

“Buddha said , “All under another’s control is suffering,
all under one’s own authority is pleasing;
what’s shared is stressful for both parties,
for bonds are hard to escape.”
― Dr. Shitalkumar R. Sukhdeve, Whole-Self Prosperity: Stepping up on a Transformative Journey to Manifest Abundance and Wholeness

“Growth often came from stepping out of one's comfort zone and embracing the unknown.”
—Amy Tan”
― Amy Tan, Revisiting the Depths: Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace - A Journey of Transformation

“Invest in yourself to become the best version of you—because your growth is the gateway to your God-given greatness."

— Ms. Alisha Jackson, MSW”
― Alisha Jackson, I AM A DIVINE WARRIOR: A Better Life Starts With You