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Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.Shannon L. Alder
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If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world. It is the only way you can get to some place you’venever been before. I try to make as many as I can. Making a mistake is the only way that you cangrow.E.W. Wainwright
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Her heart filled with boundless love that surged anew for her father. She felt like rushing to him and planting a quick kiss on his cheek the way she used to when she was a small girl. However, these villagers are not in the habit of kissing their offspring after they grow up. They show their love and affection by stroking their heads, addressing them in endearing words and blessing them.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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A new movement reinforced by activists such as Buddhist monks, physicians who practised traditional medicine, teachers, farmers, and laborers brought Prime Minister Bandaranaike into the political helm. The leaders of the Davulawatta community considered this election a personal achievement. They saw this as a people's government and appreciated its genuine interest in fulfilling the needs of the common people. They trusted that the present government would eradicate poverty and the caste discrimination, and work to promote self-esteem. .Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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If the woman has the physical fitness and the meritorious luck to bear his children, the family was a fortunate one. Villagers always looked at sterility with a squinted eye, and its fault and the misfortune lay solely on the woman's part. As such, a childless woman often became culprit for her entire life.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Physical beauty or sexual attraction in a woman was not a criterion in deciding, strengthening, or the survival of such relationships of these villagers.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Maggie was ten years younger than him. Being cross-cousins, they lived in the same compound, in the same two houses that still existed. When their parents told him to take her for his wife, there was nothing for him to think deep into the matter. They simply obeyed their parents. Accordingly, she came over to sleep in his house. In this, manner they remained as man and wife for a period of over thirty years.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Carolina protected her so that Suneetha should remain a virgin until her wedding night. The worth of such purity in character was immeasurable in this society and culture. Therefore, she never even allowed Suneetha to go with other village girls when they went to the desolate cinnamon gardens to gather firewood.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Families could often trace their lineage back several centuries. Their livelihood was earned from drum playing, a service considered to be dis-respectable. As members of a low caste, the drummers were forbidden to build decent houses. There were allowed to build wattle and daub huts, and to live rent-free on their patrons' properties. The right to own the country's land was restricted in this manner, a vicious condition that arose through tradition and was reinforced by law. Patterns of financial power and political hierarchy existed hand in hand.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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In a front of each home garden the villagers fixed a triangular wooden lamp-house on the top of a pole planted on the ground to hold a small statue of Lord Buddha and some deities. They used to offer flowers at this small shrine and light a tiny clay oil lamp.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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When he had accompanied his father on drumming errands he noticed how high caste men and women treated them as inferior. They had to enter from the back door and wait near the kitchen or at a side veranda and sit on low benches or reed mats. They were never offered a decent seat. At meals times they were never invited to eat at the main table with the family or other guests. Instead, they had to eat the food served to them on the reed mat. This they ate in silence while the patrons sat at a lavishly laid table and enjoyed their food amidst chat and cheer.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Our innocent kids undergo much trouble. Not only do the children of high caste families look down upon our children calling them low caste brats, but even some teachers ridicule them. They beat our children for no reason.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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She believed that people born to low caste families were meant to suffer. That was their karma. She had learnt that those who indulge in sinful activities in their previous birth, especially those who humiliated others, would be reborn to low caste families. She firmly believed also that one has to suffer until the sin was paid for through suffering and good deeds.Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
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There are so many things we expect God to do: lead us, bring good people into our life, give us a life of abundance, make us happy, fix our problems, fix other people, triumph over our enemies, etc. However, why do so many people think they will get any of this if they choose not to live righteously? If you choose to hurt other people and not take any responsibility for it or live your life as if everyone else is the problem, except you then God is going to lead you back to the same people, same places, same situations so you can fix the same problem you ran from. God is not standing in your future telling you to forget what you did. He is standing in front of you telling you to go back and undo what you did! He leads you to places that change who you are. He doesn't lead you to places to forget who you are.Shannon L. Alder
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We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.Shannon L. Alder