"Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come Great Work."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(quote pasted on the spine of a folder at CPR library)
Our chief want in life, is, somebody who shall make us do what we can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Everyday people die and the rest live as if they are immortal. That, is the greatest wonder - Yudhisthir, Yaksha Prashna, Madhya Parva, The Mahabhararta
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.
- Thich Naht Hanh
What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)
When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist. -Helder Camara, archbishop (1909-1999)
To a mind that is still, the whole world surrenders.
- Lao Tsu
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