| Why do you worry in vain? Why do fear? Who can kill you? A Soul never dies or takes a birth.
* Whatever happened - happened for good; What ever is happening - is happening for good; Whatever will happen - will happen for good. Do not worry about the past or the future - live in the present.
* What have you lost that makes you cry? What did you bring to this earth that you have lost? You came empty handed and will die empty handed? Today what is yours yesterday was someone else's and tomorrow will be somebody else. Whatever materialistic pleasures you have cause you sufferings.
* Change is a rule of the world. In a second you become a rich and in a second you become poor. This is mine, that is yours - remove such feelings and you will be liked by everyone.
* This body is not yours - it is made of Fire, Water, Air, Earth & the Sky and it will dissolve amongst them. Your inner soul is constant.
* You should dedicate yourself to the God. He will free you of your fear, anger & sorrow.
* Whatever you do; dedicate it to God. By doing so you will get the pleasure of becoming free from life-death cycle. | Bhagavad Gita | Life |
| It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Adversity |
| A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble | Gandhi | Adversity |
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The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it
| Unknown | Adversity |
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred
| Gandhi | Anger |
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned
| Buddha | Anger |
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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
| Akhenaton | Anger |
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When a problem first arises, try to remain humble, maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair. Of course, others may try to take advantage of you, and if your remaining detached only encourages unjust aggression, adopt a strong stand. This, however, should be done with compassion, and if it is necessary to express your views and take strong countermeasures, do so without anger or ill intent
| Dalai Lama | Anger |
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten
| Buddha | Anger |
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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long
| Babe Paley | Anger |
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"I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!
| George Sweeting | Anger |
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When people get angry they lose all sense of happiness. Even if they are good looking and normally peaceful, their faces turn livid and ugly. Anger upsets their physical well-being and disturbs their rest; it destroys their appetites and makes them age pre-maturely. Happiness, pea ce, and sleep evade them, and they no longer appreciates people who have helped them and deserve their trust and gratitude
| Dalai Lama | Anger |
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Action |
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him
| Leo Aikman | Action |
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Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
| Napoleon Hill | Action |
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
| Swami Vivekananda | Action |
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man
| Gandhi | Action |
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."
| Helen Keller | Beauty |
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Character What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty |
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
| Warren Buffett | Beauty |
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"Like uncut diamonds, many individuals have shining qualities beneath a rough exterior."
| Unknown | Beauty |
| Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it is the realization of how much you already have | Unknown | Contentment |
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It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives
| Unknown | Contentment |
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If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy
| Unknown | Contentment |
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow
| Helen Keller | Contentment |
| Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow. | | Courage |
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"Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different, that each of us is special."
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Don't set your goals by what others deem important. Only you know what is best for you."
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Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would to your life, for without them life is meaningless."
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To be angry at hearing other people speaking highly of one's enemies is totally inappropriate, because at least in the mind of the person who is praising this enemy, there is some sense of fulfillment, some satisfaction. That person is doing so because he or she feels joyous and happy, and one should rejoice in that because one's enemy has caused someone to be satisfied. If possible one should also join in the praise rather than trying to obstruct it.
| Dalai Lama | Enemy |
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Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong...because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
| | Essence of Compassion |
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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people become friends and stay a while, leaving beautiful footprints on our hearts. And we are never quite the same because we have made a good friend."
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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been ,accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow
| WIlliam Shakespeare | Friendship |
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
| Socrates | Friendship |
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship |
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Co-operation which needs consideration is a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind
| Gandhi | Friendship |
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business....
| Gandhi | Friendship |
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If one abuses you, there is a temptation to answer back, or to be revenged. One should be on guard against this natural reaction. It is like spitting against the wind, it harms no one but oneself. It is like sweeping dust against the wind, it does not get rid of the dust but defiles oneself. Misfortune always dogs the steps of one who gives way to the desire for revenge
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| The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way | | Happiness |
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Happiness |
| When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us | | Happiness |
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Happiness is like a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself"
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness |
| There is no oil without squeezing the olives, No wines without pressing the grapes, No fragrance without crushing the flowers, And no real joy without sorrow
| | Happiness |
| The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
If there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful,
If there were no dark valleys to traverse | Helen Keller | Happiness |
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Kindness |
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Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can."-
| John Wesley | Kindness |
| Pluck your flowers
of the present;
press them in the book of time,
that you may glory in their
fragrance and beauty when the
future makes them
memories of the past
| | Life |
| I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Life |
| To develop patience, you need someone who will fully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged | Dalai Lama | Patience |
| Many people think that to be patient in bearing loss is a sign of weakness. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength. For example, a person arguing a point based on sound reasoning remains confident and may even smile while proving his case. On the other hand ,if his reasons are unsound and he is about to lose face, he gets angry, loses control, and starts talking nonsense. People rarely get angry if they are confident in what they are doing. Anger comes more easily in moments of confusion | Dalai Lama | Patience |
| If you have fear of some pain or suffering , you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can , there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything , then also there is no need to worry | | Worry |
| There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us | Edward Wallis Hoch | MISCELLANEOUS |
| If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees | Kahlil Gibran | MISCELLANEOUS |
| We have been and are still going through endless suffering without deriving any benefit whatever from it. Now that we have promised to be good-hearted, we should try not to get angry when others insult us. Being patient might not be easy. It requires considerable concentration. But the result we achieve by enduring these difficulties will be sublime. That is something to be happy about ! | Dalai Lama | Patience |
| There are different types of patience: the patience of being indifferent to the harm inflicted by others the patience of voluntarily accepting hardship, and the patience developed through reasoned conviction in the Dharma | Dalai Lama | Patience |
| Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind | Leonardo Da Vinci | Patience |
| Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked | The yoga sutras of Patanjali | Peace |
| Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will | Gandhi | Pain |
| When others insult, rebuke and speak unpleasant words to us, although an intolerable pain arises like a thorn at the heart, is we comprehend the teachings then we can recognize the essence less nature of these words which resembles an echo. So just as when as inanimate object is scolded, we will experience not the slightest mental turmoil. | Dalai Lama | Pain |
| If you know that someone is speaking badly of you behind your back, and if you react to that negativity with a feeling of hurt, the you destroy your own peace of mind. One's pain is one's own creation. One should treat such things as if they are behind one's ear. In other words, just brush them aside. To a large extent, whether or not one suffers pain depends on how one responds to a given situation. What makes a difference is whether or not one is too sensitive and takes things too seriously | Dalai Lama | Pain |
| Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul | Unknown | Pain |
| The tears of today may be just enough eye water to cleanse and clear my vision for seeing a tremendously joyous tomorrow | Brian G. Jett | Pain |
| A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us, when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness and cause peace to return to our hearts | Washington Irving | Mother |
| The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
| Honore' De Balzac | Mother |
| All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes | Winston Churchill | Mistakes |
| Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one | Robert E. Lee | Mistakes |
| What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us | Helen Keller | Love |
| Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. | Peter Ustinov | Love |
| If you judge people, you have no time to love them | Mother Theresa | Love |
| Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love | Gandhi | Love |
| Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself | Chief Indian Seattle | Life |
| In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Life |
| Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever | Gandhi | Life |