Auster Quotes

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. - Paul Auster

You may practice chanting, penance and austere self-discipline within your mind, but without the Name, life is useless. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

You may chant and meditate, practice austerities and self-restraint, and dwell at sacred shrines of pilgrimage; you may give donations to charity, and perform good deeds, but without the True One, what is the use of it all? - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. - Paul Auster

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. - Paul Auster

Yes, I am excited to say that the report indicates that the school district performed well considering the time period covered was another tough time for our state government and most public school districts. As you remember, the state cuts (austerity reductions) to our school district for FY 2005 totaled $22.4 million, or $50.4 million over a three-year period. - Robert Morales

Without the True Guru, understanding is not obtained. Meditation, penance and austere self-discipline are found by surrendering to the True Guru's Will. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull. - C Northcote Parkinson

When chanting, austere meditation and self-discipline become your protectors, then the lotus blossoms forth, and the honey trickles out. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib