Some
people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our soul to dance.
They awaken us to new understanding
with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same again.
Anon
E. Muss
Life is Hard but
Beautiful. - One such person...
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a
woman's heart. ~ Holland |
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Love is the subtlest force in the world. -
Mahatma Gandhi |
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If you want
to have what people don't, Do what people won't. -
Unknown - (QP: Usha) |
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Some things in life happen without us noticing
They grow fast and big, unawares
Feeding on our thoughts and action
And not very long before we realize
That they impress upon us with such a force
Engulfing and wrapping all our senses
Leaving us perplexed and addicted
That they change our lives for the rest to come
Heralding us to new dimensions of content and time
And we are never ever the same again!
And So Did Our Love! - Gokul Weds Shalini
My best friend
Gokul
on his Wedding Invitation |
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The only thing I hate in you is the
hurt I cause you... |
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Blushing is the color of virtue
- Diogenes |
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The way to a man's heart is through his
stomach. - An English proverb |
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*~It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone and, a day to fall in love with someone ..... but it
takes a lifetime to really forget someone you love~*
- Unknown |
| When we are in love we
often doubt that which we most believe. - La
Rochefoucauld |
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Love is the first gift, Life is the second
and Understanding is the third!!... -
Unknown (QP - Kiran) |
| Don't let your mind rule
over your heart... - Unknown |
| When the Heart speaks, the
mind finds it indecent to object. - Milan
Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of being
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| In real love you want the
other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
- Margaret Anderson
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| A man falls in love
through his eyes, a woman through her ears. - Unknown
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| To love and win is the
best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - William
M. Thackeray
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| Happiness is finding love
through giving love rather than through receiving it.
- Unknown
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| Sometimes it hurts just
knowing you're out there and that I can't touch you. You're there,
living... breathing someplace far away from me. It hurts to breathe
knowing I can't have you. I can't hold you... so I hold my breath. I pray
for some sign, some sign that I should hold on... is it worth letting go?
Maybe I never had a chance... maybe we were destined to be this way. I
smile faintly and watch the clock. Another minute has gone by without you,
and another part of me has died without you. - Gloria
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Friendship often ends in Love
Friendship in Love-Never
- Unknown
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When the satisfaction or the
security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own
satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. -
Henry Stack Sullivan |
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people
but between one person and himself. - Garth
Brooks in Country Music |
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Love can heal a broken heart
- Unknown |
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Moving on is a gift you give
yourself. - Joan Rivers |
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My heart,
my life, my soul....she has the key to them all. She has but to turn the
key and allow me to surround her...with my warmth and love
- Unknown
Gravity
can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Love is
when thoughts of but one man fill your heart, when he means more than life
to you, when you know you would do anything for him and shall die if he is
taken from you. Desire is when you ache to see him and touch him, when he
causes your body to burn and tremble. Desire does not demand love before
it can ensnare you, but desire with love creates a powerful bond.
- Unknown
The
giving of love is an education in itself. - Eleanor
Roosevelt
The way
to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is
an irresistible desire to be desired irresistably.
- Robert Frost
Love is
an angel disguised as lust... - Aymes
Repplier
We cannot
really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Aymes
Repplier
If I can
stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
- Emily Dickenson
Know
love, know happiness. No love, no happiness. - Unknown
Love is a comforting hug on a
difficult day - Anon |
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You don't marry someone you can
live with - you marry the person you cannot live without -
Unknown
If you really believe it was meant to be, you just
have to be patient, no matter what obstacles get in your way.
- Unknown
Who ever loved that loved not at
first sight? - Christopher Marlowe
To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best. - William M. Thackeray
Love is but the discovery of
ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition -
Alexander Smith
When you're in love, you carry his heart in yours.
- Unknown
You are so beautiful, you are my destiny, you are my
complete soul, after all you are me. - Unknown
Love cures people - both the ones
who give it and the ones who receive it - Dr.
Karl Menninger
Some loves last a lifetime. True
love lasts forever. - Unknown |
| Only two things are
infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former. - Albert Einstein
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| Do you love
me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love
me? |
| A kiss is a lovely trick
designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman |
| One of the most important
lessons you will ever learn in life and love, is that you've got to love
people for what they are---not for who you would like them to be
- Unknown
|
| Remember that you don't
choose love.
Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery
when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing,
then reach out and give it away. Give it back to the person who brought it
alive in you. Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to the
world around you in anyway you can. - Unknown
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| Some of us think holding
on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go
- Herman Hesse |
| You
can fall in love in an instant, it's letting go that takes time.
~ Kasey |
| Men always want to be a
woman's first love-- women like to be a man's last romance.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is
like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of
loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing
else can bring.
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
- Oscar Wilde
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Work like you don't need
the money,
Love like
you've never been hurt and
Dance like nobody's watching - Unknown
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| Some people make the world
special just by being in it. - Unknown
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| What's Life without the
Occasional Surprise!!! - Unknown
|
| "True
love cannot be expressed by words. This is the very reality which is
inexplicable in any way." -
Shri Ram Chandra Mission |
I wish so much I could see
you tonight. To sleep in your arms and never be without you.
- Unknown
Without you my life is this same stupid pattern happening over and over
again; maybe I致e been staring at my screen saver too long.
- Unknown
Each morning I wake up and think of you. . . . I love
mornings. - Unknown
Sometimes when I知 all alone I close my eyes and think of you, and the
thought of your love warms me inside and makes me smile.
- Unknown
When I find myself a little lonely for you I think of how much our
closeness means to me. In that moment I'm reminded of what drew us
together in the first place and I feel as close to you as if you were here
beside me. - Unknown
As long as the sun shines, the wind blows, and the stars come out at
night I値l be loving you. - Unknown
Something in my heart tells me I never would
have known love if I had never met you. - Unknown
In my life there has been sunshine and some
rain, but you came along and showed me how to make rainbows.
- Unknown
I知 so grateful for the quiet way you slipped into my life bringing
friendship, love, and support. I know you値l always be there for me, and
that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. - Unknown
Things that make me love you:
-The special feeling I get all over every time our eyes meet.
-The way you know just when to be silly, and when to be serious.
-Your smile.
*unknown*
A story is being told inside my heart. I don稚
know how it began or if it will end-only that it is true, and that is is
beautiful, and that you are the one telling it, in your clear, quiet
voice. - Unknown
As long as there is you there is laughter, whispered secrets, long quiet
moments, tender talks. As long as there is you, there is love.
- Unknown
I値l be loving you every minute of today. No matter where you are or
what you are doing, you値l be in my thoughts. I hope you have a
wonderful day, I know I will, I always do . . because of you.
- Unknown |
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Great minds
discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
- Unknown (QP - Manoj Gulati) |
| LOVE AS IF YOU WILL
NEVER GET HURT
1.
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am
with you.
2.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't
mean they don't love you with all they have.
3.
They say love hides behind every corner, then I must be walking in
circles.
4.
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5.
Never frown even when you are sad, because you never know who's falling in
love with your smile.
6.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the
world.
7.
Don't' waste your time on a man or woman who isn't willing to waste their
time on you.
8.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
9.
Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know
someone else and expect them to know you.
10.
Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to. |
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Geethacharam (The Essence
of the Bhagavad-Gita)
Whatever has happened, has happened Good
Whatever is happening, is happening Good
Whatever will happen in the future, will happen
Good
What did you loose?
Why do you cry?
What did you bring to loose?
What did you create to go as waste?
Whatever you took, you took it from here
Whatever you gave, you gave it here
Whatever is yours today will be someone else's
tomorrow
Another day it will be somebody else's
This is the rule of the World
(I have tried to give the best translation in English.
If anyone has a better suggestion, please
me) |
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"You can search throughout the entire
universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than
you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself,
as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
~ Buddha~ |
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but
without it you cannot see anything else. - G. K.
Chesterton (QP - Ravikumar) |
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Change is the only thing that is constant in life.
- Unknown |
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The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do -
Unknown |
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He that falls in love with himself will have no
rivals. - Benjamin Franklin |
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To thine own self be true - William
Shakespeare |
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Small things make perfection... But perfection is not a small thing
- Unknown - (QP:
Roshan Mahadevaiah - UH - GISO) |
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Forgiveness is not an emotion, its a
decision. - Randall Worley |
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I am determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I
may, for I have learnt from experience that greater part of our happiness
or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances
- Martha Washington - (QP:
Gowrishankar Paramasivam)
|
Nothing can bring
you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of
principles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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|
The
thing about fear is you've just got to get over it. Living with danger is
not going to stop you. - Salman Rushdie |
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Everything you want in this world is not what you
always need... - Unknown |
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for
tomorrow - Unknown - (QP:
Anand) |
- Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing
to die having left undone - Pablo Picasso
- Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is mystery, Today
is a gift, That's why they call it The Present -
Eleanor Roosevelt
- The future belongs to those who prepare for it
TODAY! - Malcolm X
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- The wonderful truth about Skills and Knowledge:
they don't wear out with use. - Tom Hopkins
- No one has the right to brand you a failure
except yourself. - Unknown
- Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not
guilty. - Unknown
- Almost anything you do will be insignificant,
but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma
Gandhi
|
- It's not What you want in life... It's knowing
How to reach it
- It's not how high you want to Rise... It's
Knowing How to take off
- It's not the Goal you set... It's What You Need
to achieve it
- It's not where you Want to go... It's knowing
How to get there
- It's not what you Dream of doing... It's having
the Knowledge to do it
- It's not what you want to Be... It's How you
become it
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Lord, give me the courage to change the things which
can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot
be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference. -
An Alcoholics Anonymous prayer - The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People |
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Spirituality begins where
religion ends. Religion is only a preliminary stage for preparing a man for
his march on the path of freedom. When he has set his foot on the path, he
is then beyond the limits of religion. The end of religion is the beginning
of spirituality; the end of spirituality is the beginning of Reality and the
end of Reality is the real Bliss. When that too is gone, we have reached the
destination. That is the highest mark which is almost inexpressible in
words. - Shri Ram Chandra Mission |
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The human spirit is stronger than anything that can
happen to it. - C. C. Scott |
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Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary
opportunity for the light to burn brighter. - BONO
in Spain |
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Watch your attitude. Its the first thing people notice
about you. - Unknown |
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then
coming back. - Vince Lombardi |
|
A Champion chooses to do the
things that a loser chooses not to do - Vince Lombardi |
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but
living is the best thing they've come up with so far. -
Neil Simon |
|
There are all these ideals about what is perfect and
what is beautiful and what is smart, but the most appealing thing is, that
which is me is nobody else. - Jennifer Lopez in
Cosmo Girl |
|
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their
shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have
their shoes. - Quotable Quotes (Readers Digest) |
|
Too many people are praying for mountains of
difficulty to be removed when what they really need is courage to climb
them. - Unknown |
| You cannot be what you
should be so long as you think you are what you are. -
Chariji - Shri Ram Chandra Mission |
| If we are not free, no one
will respect us. - Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Do we not realize that
self-respect comes with self-reliance? - Dr. A.
P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Morality is simply the
attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike
- O. Wilde |
| The true measure of a man
is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Ann Landers |
| You cannot be really
first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
- Anna Quindlen, A short guide to a Happy Life |
|
Life isn't a spectator's sport it
is a participation sport, so get out there and live it -
Unknown |
|
Four be the things I'd been better
without: Love, Curiosity, Freckles, and Doubt -
Dorothy Parker |
It
doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done
for the children. ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
|
| We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -
Aristotle - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Sow a thought, reap an
action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a
character, reap a destiny. - A maxim from The 7
Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Responsibility: The
ability to choose Your Response. - The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People |
| Love:
In the great literature of all progressive
societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven
by feelings. Hollywood has generally scripted us to believe that we are not
responsible, that we are a product of our feelings. But the Hollywood script
does not describe the reality. If our feelings control our actions, it is
because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
Proactive people make Love
a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of
self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study
love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do
not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the
children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through
loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the
feeling, can be recaptured. - The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People |
| No one can hurt you
without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt - The 7
Habits of Highly Effective People |
| They cannot take away our
self respect if we do not give it to them. -
Gandhi - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| As human beings, We are
responsible for our own Lives. - The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People |
| The proactive approach to
a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
"Success", said IBM founder T. J. Watson, "is on the far side of
failure". - The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People |
| The fountain of content
must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human
nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition,
will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes
to remove. - Samuel Johnson - The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People |
| To begin with the end in
mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means
to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now
and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
- The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People |
| Pay as Much Attention to
the means as to the end. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Work, Constantly work with
all your power, put your whole mind in the work (whatever it be) that you
are doing. At the same time, be able to quit the work whenever you
like - Bhagavad-Gita |
| Strength is felicity, life
eternal, immortal; Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is
death. - Swami Vivekananda |
| The perfect man can put
his whole soul upon that one point of love, yet he is
unattached. - Swami Vivekananda |
| The man who asks for no
return, the perfectly unselfish man, is the most successful.
- Swami Vivekananda |
| Have the Power to give:
Give, and there it ends. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Learn the fact that
NOTHING can happen to us, unless we make ourselves susceptible to
it. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Be determined not to curse
anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but be a MAN,
stand up, lay the blame on yourself. Get hold of yourself.
- Swami Vivekananda |
| There is no such realities
as a physical world, a mental world, a spiritual world. Whatever is, is
one. It is a sort of a tapering existence; the thickest part is here, it
tapers and becomes finer and finer. The finest is what we call Spirit; the
grossest, the body. The universe of ours is exactly like that; it is the
gross external thickness, and it tapers into something finer and finer
until it becomes GOD. The greatest power is lodged in the fine, not in the
coarse. - Swami Vivekananda |
| We can perceive thoughts
only after they develop a great deal, or after they become
actions. - Swami Vivekananda |
| The man who has control
over his own mind assuredly will have control over every other
mind. - Swami Vivekananda |
| A pure, moral man has
control of himself. - Swami Vivekananda |
| There is no end to the
power a man can obtain. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Man is an infinite circle
whose circumference is nowhere, but the centre is located in one spot; and
God is an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere, but whose centre
is everywhere. Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole
universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of Self-Consciousness. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Look upon Man in the most
charitable light. - Swami Vivekananda |
| It is not so easy to be
GOOD. - Swami Vivekananda |
| "Nothing, my friend,
is lost in this world. Whatever one does, that remains as one's own. If
the fruition of YOGA, does not come in this life, one takes it up again in
the next birth". - Lord Krishna to Arjuna
(answering the question, "Will one get destroyed if he fails to
attain perfection in Yoga in this life?" |
| The Greatest help to
Spiritual life is meditation. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Ask, and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. -
Jesus Christ |
| Religion is not in
doctrines, in dogmas, nor in intellectual argumentation; it is being and
becoming, it is realisation. - Swami Vivekananda |
|
Love:
The first
test of Love is that it knows no bargaining. Love is always the giver, and
never the taker.
The second test is
that Love knows no fear. With Love never comes the idea of fear. The
children of God never see in Him a punisher or a rewarder.
The third is a
still higher test. Love is always the highest ideal. - Swami Vivekananda |
| To the extent you give
freedom to others to be what they are, to that extent you are free. - Swami
Dayananda Saraswati |
| Inner maturity of a human
is not in knowing what is right or wrong, but in knowing what one loses
when one does the wrong thing. - Swami
Dayananda Saraswati |
| We do not worship many
Gods, we do not even worship one God; we worship the only God. We only
invoke Him in various names and forms. Every aspect becomes a devata. This
is the vision of Isvara of a mature person. - Swami
Dayananda Saraswati |
| One who can manage his
wants is a successful person and one who allows wants to manage one's life
is struggling to be successful. - Swami
Dayananda Saraswati |
| There is no failure in
life. There are only varieties of experiences. We learn from experiences,
not from failure. - Swami Dayananda Saraswati |
| Love is one motive power
in the universe. In all crimes, as well as in all virtuous actions, behind
stands that eternal love. Unattached, yet shining in everything, is Love,
the motive power of the universe, without which the universe would fall to
pieces in a moment, and this Love is God. - Swami Vivekananda |
| What matters in this life
is more than winning for ourselves. What matters in this life is helping
others win, even if it means slowing down and changing our course. "A
Candle Loses nothing by lighting another Candle".
- Unknown. |
| If You judge People, you
have no time to Love them. - Mother Teresa |
| Be Kind, for everyone you
meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato |
| Every Human being has an
ideal of infinite power, has an ideal of infinite pleasure. It is not
thro' the senses that it can be reached. The senses and the body are too
limited, to express the Infinite. To manifest the Infinite thro' the
finite is impossible & sooner or later man learns to give up the
attempt to express the Infinite thro' the finite. This giving up, this
renunciation of the attempt, is the background of ethics. Renunciation is
the very basis upon which ethics stands. You have to put Yourself last,
and others before you. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Infinite will never find
expression upon the material plane, nor is it possible or thinkable. - Swami Vivekananda |
| The idea of all ethics is
the destruction, and not the building up, of the individual. - Swami Vivekananda |
| It is very well that we
should take care of this world. But if too much attention to the
spiritual may affect a little our practical relations, too much attention
to the so-called practical hurts us here and hereafter. It makes us
materialistic. Man is not to regard nature as his goal, but
something higher. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Man is Man so long as
he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both
internal & external. - Swami Vivekananda |
| The mainspring of the
strength of every race lies in its spirituality, and the death of that
race begins the day that spirituality wanes and materialism gains ground. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Religion, as a science, as
a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can
have. This pursuit of the Infinite, this struggle to grasp the Infinite,
this effort to get beyond the limitations of the senses - out of matter,
as it were - and to evolve the spiritual man-this striving day and night
to make the Infinite one with our being-this struggle itself is the
grandest and most glorious that man can make. - Swami Vivekananda |
| The lower types of
humanity in all nations find pleasure in the senses, while the cultured
and educated find it in thought, in philosophy, in arts & sciences.
Spirituality is a still higher plane. The subject being Infinite, that
plane is the highest, and the pleasure there is the highest for those who
can appreciate it. - Swami Vivekananda |
| All narrow, limited,
fighting ideas of religion have to go. All sect ideas and tribal or
national ideas of religion must be given up. Personal idea of God or the
Impersonal, the Infinite, Moral Law, or the Ideal Man-these all have to
come under the definition of religion. When religions have thus broadened,
their power for GOOD will have increased a hundredfold. - Swami Vivekananda |
| We run after everything to
make ourselves happy; we pursue our mad career in the external world of
senses. Every sense-activity results in a reaction. Everything is
evanescent. Enjoyment, misery, luxury, wealth, power and poverty, even
life itself, are all evanescent. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Man is a degeneration of
what he was. - Swami Vivekananda |
| The force called thought
manifests the body and not the reverse. It is logical to say that the
force which takes up the matter and forms the body is the same which
manifests through that body. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Atman (soul in Sanskrit)
which through the bright body, as it were, worked on the gross body
outside. The bright body is considered as the receptacle of the mind, and
the Atman is beyond that. It is not the mind even; it works the mind, and
through the mind the body. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Atman has neither form nor
shape, and that which has neither form nor shape must be Omnipresent.
Time, space and causation, therefore are in the mind. Atman is beyond the
mind and formless, it must be beyond time, beyond space, and beyond
causation. If it is beyond all this, it must be Infinite. The Infinite
cannot be two. If the soul be infinite, there can be only one Soul, and
all ideas of various souls-you having one soul and I having another, and
so forth-are not real. The Real Man, therefore, is one and infinite, the
Omnipresent Spirit. The Apparent man is only a limitation of that Real
Man. The Real Man could not be bound. The Apparent man appears to be
bound, but really is not. - Swami Vivekananda |
| Consciousness of the bad
is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good. It is no use
trying to build a second story on a house whose walls are rotten. It is
best to demolish it. It is both cowardly and foolhardy to kowtow to social
standards when one believes neither in the society nor in its standards.
Their courage is your cowardice, their cowardice your courage. It is all a
matter of nomenclature. One could say it needs courage to be a coward. A
conundrum, but a notable quote. - From the
Novel "Train to Pakistan" by Khushwant Singh - pg. 172 |
| "I can think of only
one remedy for this awful state of things - that educated men should make
a point of traveling third class and reforming the habits of the people, as also of never letting the railway authorities
rest in peace, sending in complaints wherever necessary, never reporting
to bribes or any unlawful means for obtaining their own comforts, and
never putting up with infringements of rules on the part of anyone
concerned. This, I am sure, would bring about considerable
improvement" - Mahatma Gandhi on the
unpleasant habits of third class passengers in "The Story of my
experiments with Truth" |
| I think it is wrong to
expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is
an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is
uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a
Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that
Certainty and hitch one's wagon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum
bonum of life. - Mahatma Gandhi in
"The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| Man and his deed are two
distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call for approbation and a
wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked,
always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. 'Hate the sin and not
the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is
rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the
world. This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am
realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa
as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to
resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking
oneself. For we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of
one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are
infinite. To slight a single human being is to slight those divine powers,
and thus to harm not only that being but with him the whole
world. - Mahatma Gandhi in
"The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| The teachings of
"Unto This Last" I understood to be:
1. That the good of the individual is
contained in the good of all.
2. That a Lawyer's work has the same value
as the barber's, inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their
livelihood from their work.
3. That a life of labour, i.e., the life of
the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman, is the life worth living.
- Mahatma Gandhi in
"The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| I saw that brahmacharya,
which is so full of wonderful potency, is by no means an easy affair, and
certainly not a mere matter of the body. It begins with bodily restraint,
but does not end there. The perfection of it precludes even an impure
thought. A true brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the
fleshly appetite, and until he is in that condition, he has a great deal
of ground to cover. Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete
mastery over thought is impossible. This is the teaching of every great
book of religion, and I am realizing the Truth of it every moment of my
striving after that perfect brahmacharya. -
Mahatma Gandhi in "The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| Fasting can help to curb
animal passion, only if it is undertaken with a view to self-restraint.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for
self-restraint. The famous verse from the Bhagavad Gita is worth noting in
this connection:
'For a man who is fasting his senses
- Outwardly, the sense-objects disappear, - Leaving the yearning behind;
but when - He has seen the Highest, - Even the yearning disappears'
Fasting and similar discipline is, therefore, one
of the means to the end of self-restraint, but it is not all, and if
physical fasting is not accompanied by mental fasting, it is bound to end
in hypocrisy and disaster. -
Mahatma Gandhi in "The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| I have always held that it
is only when one sees one's own mistakes with a convex lens, and does just
the reverse in the case of others, that one is able to arrive at a just
relative estimate of the two. - Mahatma Gandhi
in "The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| My uniform experience has
convinced me that there is no other God than Truth and the Only means for
the realization of Truth is Ahimsa. A perfect vision of Truth can only
follow a complete realization of Ahimsa - Mahatma Gandhi
in "The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| To see the universal and
all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the
meanest of creation as oneself - Mahatma Gandhi
in "The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| Identification with
everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without
self-purification the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty
dream; God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of
life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself
necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. But the path
of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one
has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to
rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and
repulsion. - Mahatma Gandhi
in "The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| So long as a man does not
of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is
no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of
humility. - Mahatma Gandhi
in "The Story of my experiments with Truth" |
| In the application of
"Satyagraha", I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did
not permit violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be
weaned from error by patience and sympathy. And patience means
self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of truth, not by
the infliction of suffering on the opponent, but on one's self.
- Mahatma Gandhi |
| A rich person is not the
one who has the most, but is one who needs the least. -
Unknown (QP - Senthil) |
| Painless poverty is better
than embittered wealth. - Unknown |
| Thinking you need rest
makes you restless. Thinking you have to work hard makes you tired.
Thinking you have worked hard brings self-pity - Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar |
| Life is not measured by
the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away
- Unknown |
| Comedy is nothing more
than tragedy deferred. - Pico Iyer in Time |
| He who strikes terror into
others is himself in continual fear - Claudian |
| Like a spring the
beginning of all things are small - Unknown |
| No matter what
accomplishments you make somebody helps you -
Althea Gibson |
| The philosophy in the
classroom of this generation is the philosophy of government in the
next. - Abraham Lincoln |
| Thinking is the hardest
work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in
it. - Henry Ford |
| A ship in Harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for. -
Unknown |
| Happy is harder than
money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got
money. - David Geffen |
| The talk you hear about
adapting to change is not only stupid, its dangerous. The only way you can
manage change is to create it. - Peter Drucker |
| Every success is usually
an admission ticket to a new set of decisions. - Henry
Kissinger |
| The only way to have a
life is to commit to it like crazy. - Angelina
Jolie in Premiere |
| Silly is you in a natural
state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly
again. - Mike Myers on "Inside the Actors
Studio" |
| Facts of Love &
Life: * Good friends are hard to
find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
* You can only go as far as you push.
* Actions speak louder than words.
* Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
* Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
* If love isn't a game, why are there so many players?
* The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
* Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.
* Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.
* A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.
* Some people make the world special just by being in it.
* Best friends are the siblings God didn't give us.
* When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look
beside you and your best friend will be there.
* True friendship never ends. Friends are forever.
* Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know
they are always there.
* Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
* What do you do when the only people who can make you stop crying is the
person who made you cry?
* Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
* Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the
end.
* Most people walk in and out of your life, but only friends leave footprints
in your heart.
* Every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted |
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Love:
To My Friends Who Are............ SINGLE:
* Love is
like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you
just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it.
* Love can make you happy but often it hurts, but love's only special when
you give it to someone who is really worth it. So take your time and choose
the best.
To My Friends Who Are............ NOT SO SINGLE:
* Love
isn't about becoming somebody else's "perfect person". It's about finding
someone who helps you become the best person you can be.
To My
Friends Who Are............ PLAYBOY/GIRL TYPE:
Never say
"I love you" if you don't care. Never talk about feelings if they aren't
there. Never touch a life if you mean to break a heart. Never look in the
eye when all you do is lie. The cruelest thing a guy can do to a girl is to
let her fall in love when he doesn't intend to catch her fall and it works
both ways...
To My
Friends Who Are............ MARRIED:
Love is not
about "it's your fault", but "I'm sorry" not "where are you', but "I'm right
here" not "how could you", but "I understand" not "I wish you were", but
"I'm thankful you are."
To My
Friends Who Are............ ENGAGED:
The true
measure of compatibility is not the years spent together but how good you
are for each other.
To My
Friends Who Are............ HEARTBROKEN:
Heartbreaks
last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go. The
challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them.
To My
Friends Who Are............ NAIVE:
How to be
in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too persistent, share
and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, and get hurt but
never keep the pain.
To My
Friends Who Are............POSSESSIVE:
It breaks
your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else but it's more
painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.
To My
Friends Who Are............ AFRAID TO CONFESS:
Love hurts
when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up
with you. But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how
you feel.
To My
Friends Who Are............ STILL HOLDING ON:
A sad thing
about life is when you meet someone and fall in love only to find out in the
end that it was never meant to be and that you have wasted years on someone
who wasn't worth it. If he isn't worth it now he's not going to be worth it
a year or 10 years from now. Let go.....
TO
ALL MY FRIENDS.......:
My wish for
you is a man/women who's love is honest, strong, mature, never-changing,
uplifting, protective, encouraging, rewarding and unselfish. |
You are my Friend:
- If you should die before me, ask if you could
bring a friend
- If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to
be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live, without you
- True friendship is like sound health; the value
of it is seldom known until it is lost
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest
of the world walks out
- My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I
wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them
- Hold a true friend with both your hands
- I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be
okay
- Friendship is one mind in two bodies
- Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
- Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to
what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- A friend is someone who knows the song in your
heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
- We all take different paths in life, but no
matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
- Friends are God's way of taking care of us
- Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Friends are the Bacon Bits in the salad bowl of life.
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Don't let Success to your Head and Failure to your
Heart -
Rajan Subramaniam (A net pal who liked this site emailed me this quote) |