Sri Lanka Quotes

• That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Growing Up, War, Fate

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• Hidden nature is secret God.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Secret

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• Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love You, Universal Love, Universe

  Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

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• In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Lying, Facts, Thousand

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Running in the Family”, p.121, A&C Black

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• An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

  Abdul Kalam

  Dream, Peaceful, Messages

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• We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Play, Australia, England

  "Mahela Jayawardene" by Charlie Austin, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, www.espncricinfo.com. 2007.

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• Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

  Ru Freeman

  War, Islands, Killing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

  Paul Walker

  Earthquakes, Doers, Helping

  "Speed considered a factor in death of 'Fast and Furious' actor Paul Walker" by Becky Bratu, Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. December 2, 2013.

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• Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love Is, Men, Needs

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.775, Aum Publications

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• Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's a dicey job market. You never know.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Buddhist, Jobs, Today

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• I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Home, House

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• India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  India, Facts, Interest

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• I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.

  Julia Sawalha

  Sea, Two Best Friends, Scuba

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• The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Country, Boys, Thinking

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• Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Long, Perfection, Humanity

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• If u come to Sri Lanka you will find that DHONI has more fans than any other Srilankan player.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Player, Dhoni, Fans

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• I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian tsumai. It happened around Christmas-New Year. The Muslims of Sri Lanka said 'We knew this would happen because the Christians were using alcohol for their Christmas celebrations.' The Buddhists said 'We knew this would happen because of the horrible Muslim slaughter practices.' It's amazing to see how apocalypse or catastrophe makes people behave primitively.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, New Year, Buddhist

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Shining, Example, Grows

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.775, Aum Publications

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• That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Hinduism, Embrace, Eternal

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.16, editionNEXT.com

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• I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.

  Jacques Kallis

  Dream, Bridges, World

  "Jacques Kallis adds one-day and T20 to Test cricket retirement". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2014.

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• The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Race, Gita

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1992). “Wisdom of the Gita: Second Series”, p.102, Lotus Press

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• Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.

  Pope Francis

  Philippines, Praying, Please

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• Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

  Amartya Sen

  Buddhism, Levels, Thailand

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now.

  Rosie Fellner

  Matter, Next, Moments

  "Rosie Fellner: Celebrating Kindness and Differences". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.

  Martin Jacques

  Beach, Tourism, Majority

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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