You vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung
Undisturbed calmness of the mind is attained by cultivating friendliness towards the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference towards the wicked.
- Patanjali in "Yoga Sutras"
They must change often who must be constant in happiness.
- Confucius
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
-Oliver Herford, writer and illustrator (1863-1935)
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
-Aleister Crowley, author (1875-1947)
- Carl Jung
Undisturbed calmness of the mind is attained by cultivating friendliness towards the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference towards the wicked.
- Patanjali in "Yoga Sutras"
They must change often who must be constant in happiness.
- Confucius
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
-Oliver Herford, writer and illustrator (1863-1935)
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
-Aleister Crowley, author (1875-1947)
The crucial question is whose feelings are to be taken into account? Way back in 1947, Justice Vivian Bose, presiding over the Nagpur High Court, ruled that the effect of words and expressions “must be judged from the standards of reasonable, strong-minded, firm and courageous men, and not those of weak and vacillating minds, nor of those who scent danger in every hostile point of view”.
- Soli Sorabjee in his article 'The joke’s lost on us', Indian Express 14 Sep., 2008
"Education is what prepares you to be someone more than to do something; to hear more when you listen, to reach deeper when you think, to say more when you speak."
- A Notre Dame theology Professor
“In War the Will Is Directed at an Animate Object That Reacts.”
-Karl Von Clausewitzin “On War”, 1832
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994)
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
-Lao Tzu,philosopher (6th century BCE)
- Soli Sorabjee in his article 'The joke’s lost on us', Indian Express 14 Sep., 2008
"Education is what prepares you to be someone more than to do something; to hear more when you listen, to reach deeper when you think, to say more when you speak."
- A Notre Dame theology Professor
“In War the Will Is Directed at an Animate Object That Reacts.”
-Karl Von Clausewitzin “On War”, 1832
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-Rollo May, psychologist (1909-1994)
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
-Lao Tzu,philosopher (6th century BCE)
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
-Alice Walker, author (b. 1944)
A man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
-Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)
-Alice Walker, author (b. 1944)
A man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
-Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)
If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl. So choose the best place where you would shine..
-Anon (?)
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
-Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 1st century BCE or 6th century CE)
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
-Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
They know enough who know how to learn.
-Henry Adams (1838-1918)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies inside us"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
-Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)
Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. -Franklin P. Jones
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
-T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
- Stephen Vincent Benet
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
-Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 1st century BCE or 6th century CE)
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
-Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
They know enough who know how to learn.
-Henry Adams (1838-1918)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies inside us"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
-Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)
Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. -Franklin P. Jones
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
-T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise.
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
- Horace
"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
- Lou Holtz
"Without adversity, without change, life is boring."
- John Amatt
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
-Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
-Swedish proverb
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injurythat provokes it.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Horace
"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
- Lou Holtz
"Without adversity, without change, life is boring."
- John Amatt
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
-Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
-Swedish proverb
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injurythat provokes it.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him"
-Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him"
-Aldous Huxley
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