Sheenagh Pugh quotes

“Some men become what they were born for.”
-- Sheenagh Pugh

Source : "Selected Poems". Book by Sheenagh Pugh, 1990.

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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”

“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

“I was born in India - but never really lived there.”

Source : "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.

“Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.”

“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”

“You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.”