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"Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life."
"There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones."
"You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay."
"Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone."
"The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man."
"In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
"Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis."
"The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone."
"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
"Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones."
"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak."
"To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace."
"I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me."
"Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass."
"Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm."
"Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around."
"And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him."
"I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?"
"You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy."
"Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live."
