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Life Inspirational Quotes

Life’s grand struggle for existence cannot be fully explained by the propagation of species argument – for it offers no explanation for the cherished human ideals of selfless service, sacrifice for the greater good, and dying in the line of duty to protect the life of others.

It is only in the realms of spirituality that we find the best explanation.

“The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts – so many millions of miles further off are we!”

– Rabindranath Tagore

As Swami Vivekananda once wrote, “this inexplicable cycle of life and death can only be explained as Maya – an illusion. Beyond this lies our true self, our soul which is never born, that never dies, never changes and never goes or comes. Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this soul of man – the real self of man”.

This real self, our soul, is hidden under the veil of Maya, and it is only through the lens of life experiences, that we can unveil the mystery and reacquaint ourselves with our hidden potentials.

Just as a seed needs the right kind of soil, the perfect temperature, air and water to germinate, so too do we need the right circumstances to reveal our true nature. Without the proper opportunity our cherished ideals of bravery, courage, sacrifice, judgment, integrity and unconditional love would never fully manifest.

“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”

– Rabindranath Tagore

Life thus, is nothing but an obstacle course, running through which we evolve to become more perfect. One lifetime is probably not enough to discover our true self, and so just like a diver searching for pearls, we dive again and again into this ocean of life, going through the cycles of births and deaths, till finally we come face to face with our real nature and realize it in its true relation with the infinite beyond – that we are the infinite spirit, ever blissful, and an indivisible part of God himself.

This is the real purpose of life.

Word for word quotation (direct quote):

Definition: Using an author’s language word for word (verbatim)

Ways to avoid plagiarism:

· Use quotation marks around the author’s words.

· Use a signal or identifying phrase that tells who and what you are quoting. · Add an intext (parenthetical) reference at the end of the passage. · Include a citation at the end of your paper (Works Cited). MLA Example:

Rodriguez and Bellanca observe, “In some urban classrooms, children arrive

without any notion of sharing behavior. If they have grown up as street survivors,

without strong early mediation for sharing, they may come to school ready to do

battle to the death” (135). Or

“In some urban classrooms, children arrive without any notion of sharing

behavior. If they have grown up as street survivors, without strong early

mediation for sharing, they may come to school ready to do battle to the death”

(Rodriguez and Bellanca 135).

Include on your Works Cited page:

Rodriguez, Eleanor Renee, and James Bellanca. What Is It About Me You Can’t

Teach?: An Instructional Guide for the Urban Educator. 2 nd ed.Thousand Oaks, CA:

Corwin, 2007. Paraphrasing:

Definition: Putting an author’s ideas in your own words

Ways to avoid plagiarism:

· Use a signal or identifying phrase that tells who and what you are paraphrasing

· Use the same ideas as in the original text

· Use your own words when phrasing. In most cases, avoid using any of the same

wording that the author used unless you put a key term in quotation marks.

· Add an intext (parenthetical) reference at the end of the paraphrase. · Include a citation at the end of your paper (Works Cited). MLA Example:

Original passage:

Annie Oakley's life spanned years of tremendous change for American women. By the

time of her death in 1926, Americans were celebrating the liberated, urbanfocused,

modern times of the Jazz Age. Women had won the right to vote, wore less restrictive

clothes, and followed a changing ideal that was loosening some of the restrictions on

women's roles and behavior that had reigned through the nineteenth century.

Incorrect paraphrasing:

Annie Oakley’s life spanned years of significant changes for American women. By the

time she died in 1926, women had the vote, wore looser clothing, and embraced the

freedom from restrictive 19 th century roles and behaviors.

(Sounds too much like the original passage. Also the sentence structure is too similar to

the original text.)

Correct paraphrasing:

As discussed in the biography on PBS’s American Experience web page, sharpshooter

Annie Oakley lived through a period of many liberating changes for women, from the

Victorian era through the first quarter of the 20th century. Examples include voting rights

for women as well as the freedom to wear comfortable and practical clothing (Annie

Oakley).

Summarizing:

Definition: Condensing an author’s ideas to a more succinct statement

Ways to avoid plagiarism:

· Use a signal or identifying phrase that tells who and what you are summarizing.

· Use a quick description of the main points of the passage. · Use your own words and phrasing. In most cases, avoid using any of the same

wording. · Add an intext (parenthetical) reference at the end of the summary.

· Include a citation at the end of your paper (Works Cited). MLA Example:

Original passage:

By 1964, there were an estimated 33,500 restaurants in the United States calling

themselves “driveins,” but only 24,500 offered hot food, the remainder being ice cream

and softdrink stands primarily. Layout varied from drivein to drivein, but three principal

spaces could always be found: a canopycovered driveway adjacent to the building, a

kitchen, and a carhop station linking kitchen and parking lot. The smallest driveins

offered carhop service only, but many also featured indoor lunch counters and booths,

sometimes on the scale of the coffee shop.

Summary:

In the chapter “QuickService Restaurants in the Age of Automobile Convenience,” The

authors note that by the mid1960s, nearly 35,000 selfproclaimed “drivein” restaurants

in the United States existed. Most served hot meals while others served just ice cream

and soft drinks. No specific blueprint defined the typical drivein; however, three

characteristics describe this new type of casual eating establishment: a covered

driveway, a kitchen, and a carhop station (Jackle and Sculle 55).

Include on your Works Cited page:

Jackle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the

Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.

Common knowledge:

Definition: A fact that is so well known that it can be found in numerous sources and

therefore does not need to be cited.

Examples of common knowledge:

The state bird of California is the California Quail.

The Dodo has been extinct since the midtolate 17th century.

The redtailed hawk lives in the Livermore area.

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