“Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.”
Stéphane Mallarmé.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)
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Editorial in Udetenchem Sallok, a Konkani weekly in 1889. Translated from its original text in Konkani and quoted by Manohar Rai Sardessai in History of Konkani Literature: From 1500 to 1992, p. 102.
