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“The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

“Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.”

Men Years Long Book Ideas Hands Reading Water Church Rain Temples Maps Inches Drop Of Water Onward And Upward

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!”

Way May Made Book Results Steps Path Higher

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.”

Book Action Teach Ignorance Negative

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.”

Book Soul Forget Inspired Great Book God Inspired

Book:Vedanta: Voice of Freedom

Source: Vedanta: Voice of Freedom

“Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.”

Looks Book Light Universe Can Do Loses Thousand Method Within You Faith In Yourself Inner Light Never Lose Faith

Book:My Idea of Education

Source: My Idea of Education

“Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.”

Men Long Book Body Strong Method Medicine Nurse Mastery Recognise Herbs

Book:The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.”

Book Soul Self Form Your Soul Get Away Krishna Deluded

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.”

Needs Heart Has Beens Book

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.”

Long Book Dogma Confined

Book:Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

“If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.”