Sayings
Morality
Morality is both
an individual and social phenomenon. It tells you how to be happy.
From Islam Online
Morality is that
which sustains life. Sin is that destroys life. Morality is that standard of
human relations. Conceptualize morality as constructively. Morality is solving
problems; sin is creating problems.
Gary Novak
Whatever brings
us closer to attaining innate Divinity is ethical and moral; whatever prevents
us from attaining it, is not.
Vedanta Society of Suthern California
Know only that what is moral is
what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Earnest Hemmingway
Morality is simply the attitude
we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar
Wilde
Children
Great man is that man who has not
lost his childlike heart.
Mencius
If help and salvation are to
come, they can only come from children, for children are the makers of men.
Maria
Montessory
We should learn
from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together
but they quickly make up and their fights don’t deteriorate into bitter feuds.
Joseph
Wechsberg
Love
Love is an attachment to another
self. Humour is a form of self-detachment – a way of looking at one’s
misfortune, or one’s discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to
laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
Claude
Roy
To become vegetarian is to step
into the stream, which leads to nirvana.
Gautama
Buddha
We regard all created beings as
sacred and important, for everything has a wochangi or influence that can be
given to us, through which we may gain a little more understanding if we are
attentive.
Blach
Elk
Love is not a matter of getting
what you want. Quite the contrary, the insistence on always having what you
want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love
impossible.
Thomas
Merton
Animals are such agreeable
friends: they ask no questions, pass no criticisms. George Eliot
Inside Out
Often people say: “Be the same
outside as what you are inside.” I ask: How is this possible? Inside you are a
vast ocean, an infinite sky. Outside you are finite – just a small limited
form. All that you are inside – the love, beauty, compassion and Divinity –
does not show up fully outside. What shows is only the crust of your behaviour.
Don’t mistake the outer crust for who you are inside. And don’t show your
infinite lordship outside, for Divinity is not easily understood.
Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar
He who knows others is wise; he
who knows himself is enlightened.
Tao
Te Ching
True Spirituality
Faith is not
something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma
Gandhi
To put the world
in order we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order we
must first put the family in order; to put the family in order we must
cultivate our personal life; to cultivate our personal life we must set our
hearts right.
Confucius
It is a fine
thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on
tradition and secondhand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser,
but a greater thing.
D
H Lawrence
Manifest plainness, Embrace
simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Lao-Tzu
When I do good, I feel good and
when I do bad, I feel bad and that is my religion.
Abraham
Lincoln
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Life has no meaning the moment
you loose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul
Sartre
The golden opportunity you are seeking
is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or
the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison
S Marden
Golden rule
Do not do to
others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against
you, either in the family or in the state.
Analects
12:2
All things
whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is
the law and the prophets.
Mathew
7:1
Hurt not others
in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Udana-Varga
5,1
No one of you is
a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
Sunnah
What is hateful
to you, do not do t6o your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest in
commentary;
Talmud,
Shabbat 3id
Regard your
neighbour’s gain as your gain, and your neighbour’s loss as your own loss.
Tai
Shang Kan Yin Pien
That nature
alone is good which refrains from doing another whatsoever is not good for
itself.
Dadisten-I-dinik,
94,5
We need lots of
love to forgive, but we need much more humility to ask for forgiveness.
Mother
Teresa
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Plain and Simple
Truth by her own
simplicity is known.
Robert
Herrick
Whosoever shall
not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter
therein.
St.
Luke
Ever since my
Lord’s Grace entered in my mind, my mind has never strayed seeking various
distractions.
Milarepa
Blessed are the
pure in heart: for they shall see God.
St
Mathew
Unless a man is
simple, he cannot recognize God, the Simple one.
Bengali
Song
The true reason underlying things
is invisible, un-sizable, indefinable, and indeterminable. Only the spirit
established in the state of perfect natural simplicity can attain it in
profound contemplation.
Lieh-tse
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Holiday Season
Blessed is the
season, which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton
Mabie
The holiest days
are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of
the heart.
H
W Longfellow
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Boxing Day
Remember; if
Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.
Charlotte
Carpenter
This is the
message of Christmas: “We are never alone”.
Taylor
Caldwell
My idea of
Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come
to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
Bob
Hope
A cheerful giver
does not count the cost of what he gives. His heart is set on pleasing and
cheering him to whom the gift is given.
Julian
of Norwich
Anyone who
believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because
medicine is practiced not on mankind in general, but on every individual in
particular.
Henri
de Mondeville
Research is to see what everybody
else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert
Szent-Gyvrgi, US biochemist
What is Desire?
All desires are
bad, but some are worse than others. Pursue any desire, it will always give you
trouble. Why desire at all? Desiring a state of freedom will not set you free.
Nothing can set your free, because you are free. See yourself with desire less
clarity, that is all.
Nisargadatta
Maharaj
A desire arises
in the mind. It is satisfied, immediately another comes. In the interval, which
separates two desires, a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment
freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two
mental waves.
Swami
Sivananda
I used to desire
many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that’s to get rid of all
my desires.
John
Cleese
Universal
Harmony
It is not for
the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float
each in an orbit.
Qur’an
Opposition
unites. From what draws apart results the most beautiful harmony. All things
take place by strife.
Heraclitus
Equality is by
nature prior to inequality… it is also naturally prior to diversity. Equality,
it must be concluded, is eternal.
Nicholas
of Cusa
See a golden
Chain, see the Order of the precious Links, see how in a beautiful circle the
beginning is fastened to the end.
Peter
Sterry
Time to Reflect
Look at yourself
in the mirror of introspection. That is the way you can become flawless in the
spiritual mirror of your soul.
Paramahansa
Yogananda
Deeds, which
make you sad and repentant, are liked better by the Lord than the good deed
which turns you vain and conceited.
Nahjul
Balagha
Spend some time
alone every day. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. Share your
knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Tenzin
Gyatso, the Dalai Lama
If you find that
you have made a mistake, then you must not be afraid of admitting the fact and
amending your ways.
Confucius
Follow effective
action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more
effective action.
Peter
F Drucker
Reflection is
the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembers
himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
William
Shakespeare
Prayer takes the
mind out of the narrowness of self-interest, and enables us to see the world in
the mirror of the holy.
Abraham
Heschel
Teach us to
number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom.
Psalm
91
Commitment has
kind eyes. He wears sturdy shoes. Everything is vivid when he is around. It is
wonderful to sit and have lunch in his gardens around harvest time. You can
taste in the vegetables that the soil has been cared for:
Ruth
Gendler
Beauty Barometer
People are like
stained glass windows – true beauty can be seen only when there is light from
within.
Elizabeth
Kubler Ross
We ascribe
beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly
answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many
extremes.
Ralph
W Emerson
Beauty is style
and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
Plato
Health and
Happiness
Every human
being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
To ensure good
health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness,
and maintain an interest in life.
William
Londen
Health is a
state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.
World
Health Organis’n 1948
Unlimited
Potential
Realize your
full potential and help others to realize theirs.
Swami
Bodhananda
So, that is my
final lesson from the universe – you just do what you need to do, and stay on
track.
Oprah
Winfrey
What are You?
A man is but the
product of his thoughts what he thinks he becomes.
Mahatma
Gandhi
We are what we
repeatedly do … Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a
particular way – you become just by performing temperate actions, brave by
performing brave actions.
Aristotle
He that respects
himself is safe from others: HE wears a coat of mails that none can pierce.
Henry
W Longfellow
A sound body is
a first-class thing; a sound mind is an even better thing; but the thing that
counts for most in the individual as in the nation is character; the sum of
those qualities which make a man a good man and woman a good woman.
Theodore
Roosevelt
Ganguly Special
There are some
low moments in every player’s career; but that should not mean I would lock
myself in and brood … I need to play matches and get runs. I have to work on
getting my form back and I won’t get it back by sitting at home.
Sourav
Ganguly
When life throws
shoes at you … at least pick through the best ones and try them on for size!
Jasbeen
S, California
What is
necessary in life is to fix yourself to the axis of your own life, which is
your true nature. If you manage to remain undeviated from your true nature or
principles, no positive or negative peak can move you form there.
Priyanka
Teredesai
It is not what you do that defines you. What
defines you is how well you rise after you have fallen.
Vivian
M Illinois
Key-makers: Some
people see a closed door and turn away. Others see a closed door; try the knob…
if it doesn’t work they turn away. Still others see a closed door; try the
knob… if it doesn’t open, they find a key. If the key doesn’t open, they find a
key. If it doesn’t fit, they make one.
Amanda
J, Montana
Republic
Thoughts
Patriotism is
your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because
you were born in it… You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the
patriotism out of the human race.
George
Bernard Shaw
The love of one’s country is a
splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo
Casals
Heroism on command, senseless
violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism –
how passionately I hate them!
Albert
Einstein
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The sacrifice, which causes
sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice, is not sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens
the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up
the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mahatma
Gandhi
If you have much, give your
wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
Arabian
Proverb
Hungry not only for bread, but
hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing, but naked for human dignity and
respect. Homeless not only for want of room of bricks, but homeless because of
rejection.
Mother
Teresa
Not he who has much rich, but he
who gives much.
Erich
Fromm
Friends and Partners
I don’t like to commit myself
about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark
Twain
Everyone calls himself a friend,
but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer
than the thing.
Jean
de La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing in the world I
wouldn’t do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me… We spend our
lives doing nothing for each other.
Bing
Crosby
If a man does not make new
acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A
man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Dr
Samuel Johnson
Fellowship is heaven, and lack of
fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lank of fellowship is death; and
the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do
them.
William
Morris
The best remedy for stress and
strain is patience and forgiveness. Patience begets strength and confidence and
leads eventually to bliss.
Dadaji
A R Chowdhury
Everyman should eat and drink,
and enjoy the good of all his labour, it the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes
3:13
A harvest of piece is produced
from a seed of contentment.
American
Proverb
The law of harvest is to reap
more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a
character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James
Allen
Qualities of
Leadership
When leading, be
generous with the community, honourable in action, sincere in your words. As
for the rest, do not be concerned.
The
Buddha
An army of a thousand is easy to
find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Chinese
Proverb
A real leader faces the music,
even when he doesn’t like the tune.
Anon
Reason and calm judgment, the
qualities specially belonging to a leader.
Tacitus
When the leadership is right and
the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow to the end
and at all costs.
Harold
J Seymour
A leader is a
dealer in hope. Napoleon
Bonaparte
Don’t tell people how to do
things, tell them what to do and let them surprise your with their results.
George
S Patton
The very essence of leadership is
that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore
M Hesbuegh
Leadership is the art of getting
someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight
Eisenhower
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To him in whom love dwells, the
whole world is but one family.
The
Buddha
Making the simple complicated is
commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s
creativity.
Charles
Mingus
Enjoy the little things, for one
day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Pyar hi Pyar
Unbreakable O
Lord, Is the love, That binds me to you; Like a diamond, it breaks the hammer
that strikes it.
Mirabi
Love, the cause of my torment,
now brings me joy, Like a day of low dark clouds showers away the heat.
Kalidasa
Love doesn’t claim possession but
gives freedom.
Rabindranath
Tagore
I never knew how to worship until
I knew how to love.
Henry
Ward Beecher
One sees great things from the
valley, only small things from the peak.
G
K Chesterton
Everything in your lives happens
for a purpose and that purpose is to prepare us.
Spencer
W Kimball
Never apologize for showing
feeling , when you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin
Disraeli
Do the thing you are afraid to do
and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually
there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally
responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin
You can choose
to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is
really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have
been taught and accept as true.
Sidney
Madwed
From error to
error; everyone discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund
Freud
Errors like
straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
John
Dryden
I can accept failure, everyone
fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael
Jordan
No amount of experimentation can
ever prove me right; single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert
Einstein
Try and fail,
but don’t fail to try. Stephen
Kaggwa
Tension is you who think you
should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese
Proverb
Take rest; a field that has
rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid
