Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Everyone has moments in their life where they wish they would have done something differently. For example, I wish I would have studied for a hard test more or my brother may wish that he did not run on wet tile and break his hand. Many of these things are personal cause and effects. Most of the time you know what you should or should not be doing at the time of the certain action. In the book The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal, the author asks the reader to explore what they would have done if a nazi asked for forgiveness on their deathbed. What makes Wiesenthal’s situation different from ours is that his pain or for lack of better words suffering was out of his control and the person who controlled it is asking him for forgiveness. What

“I have hated the words and I have loved them and I hope I have made them right” Quoted from page 528. This paper will sum up the main events, what occurs after, and some tragedies in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Talking about what really was happening while the Hubermann’s door were closed and the lights were off. The truth about what was really happening behind those stacks of paint cans and bed sheets in the basement. Too bad it all ended the way it did, but to be fair they do say you have to go through the rain to get to the rainbow.

“At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever.” (Chapter 4, Page 41, Paragraph 2)

nothing. It’s no wonder Alexie does not waste much sympathy even on whites at all, he even

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”

8. I think this quote is some foreshadowing for an event in the future. It sounds completely mysterious to me, and leads me to believe that something will fall apart in the future.

"Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. A quote that sticks with me weeks after reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. In this novel, Rebecca Skloot, the author was in a biology class when she first heard about HeLa cells. Little did she know she was uncovering the unknown history behind HeLa cells. The cells were taken from Henrietta Lacks a wife, mother and tobacco farmer from Virginia. One day in 1951 she checked herself in John Hopkin’s Hospital complaining about a “knot in her womb” and unusual bleeding. After signing a form stating “I hereby give consent to the staff of The Johns Hopkins Hospital to perform any operative procedures and under any anesthetic either local or general that they may deem necessary

Lina Vilkas, a passionate fifteen year old girl who loves art and never lost hope throughout the book because she was determined to survive. Lina was taken away from her very own home and was compelled to dig for beets ,while trying to keep herself alive in the worst circumstances. She was courageous many times throughout the novel. Her courage showed when she yelled at a guard named Nikolai Kretzsky “I HATE YOU”. Lina expressed her opinion and confronted the man who could take her life in a matter of seconds.

Christian white culture inherits Native Culture Sacajawea is represented both as a statue and a living character. She comes alive at night but like all other statues at the museum, she is not allowed to leave the museum. If she leaves and sees the light of the sun outside the museum, she will be turned into dust and will no longer exist. She can go out of the museum and share information.

Elie Wiesel makes this statement and asks these question as he and his father walk towards what they think is their deaths. All the men and boys around him, including his father, are praying for God to answer their wishes. Elie begins to question God and where He is, as he watches not only men and women be burned, but also infants. This quote reflects Elie beginning to question his God and his faith.

I believe the connection Utanapishtim is making between the sleeper and the dead being alike is because often when people die, it’s referred to as being in a permanent sleep. The only difference between the two is, when you’re asleep you wake up and when you’re dead you stay asleep. After that quote it gets confusing, because Untanapishtim goes on to say, “They limn not death’s image, No one dead has ever greeted a human in this world.” (80). I had to look up what the word “limn” meant and found out that it means to depict or describe. Therefore, I took that sentence to mean, sleep and death does not describe death’s image. I’m not really sure what Utanapishtim was trying to say as I read further past the quote of the sleeper and the dead being alike, but in today’s time I would take that simile as being compared to when people say, “When you die, you’re just sleeping.”

"doubt not my power. I have already given this matter the deepest thought--thought which might almost have enlightened me to create a being less perfect than yourself. Georgiana, you have led me deeper than ever into the heart of science. I feel myself fully competent to render this dear cheek as faultless as its fellow; and then, most beloved, what will be my triumph when I shall have corrected what Nature left imperfect in her fairest work! Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be." Hawthorn 340.

The character in which I would compare myself to is Harry. Harry may be perceived to be the ‘bad boy’ the one who causes trouble, but deep down he turns to be Tessa’s hero. He brings a sense of reality and says things straight. An example of this is when Tessa is too caught up in something Harry gives it to her straight, this quote is from chapter 27 “You know what your problem is Theresa? Your problem is that you read too many damn novels and you forget that they are all bullshit. There are no Darcy’s there are only Wickham’s and Alec d’Urbervilles. So wake up and stop expecting me to be some god damned literary hero because it’s not going to happen!” Another example of this is in chapter 66 when Harry is talking to Tessa “I guess that’s the

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

1. "There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must             distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose             correctly between them."