life Quotes

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

If you deny childhood, you deny life. They can't speak up for themselves so we must. It's like, how do we define love, It's a very, very deep feeling, but It's I think the most important force of life.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Make your life an act of love.

My need is not to be on the outside glaring in; its to be in the center with you. To be loved is nice, but not essential. To love someone, that's what makes life worth living.

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love until he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.

To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart.

What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and the grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge, grand as knowledge is, but just the laughter of children, and the friendship of friends, and the cozy talk by the fire, and sight of flowers, and the sound of music.

When you find a job you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life.

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost . .

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.

Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence.

We are all born for love. . . . It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye.

If people are allowed to love life, then they should also be allowed to hate it.

Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Love at the lips was touch, As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind.

We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers . We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Greatness after all, ion spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one's place of service and be true to one's own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one's true greatness.

To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat.

. . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy.

The supreme happiness to life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man's finest hour.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it .

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful , But the gratefulness that makes us happy.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Ten Spiritual Tonics 1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life. 2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul. 3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind. 4. Accept your limitations . . . 5. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy. 6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition. 7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves. 8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views. 9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence. 10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

True happiness must have the tinge of sorrow outlived, the sense of pain softened by the mellowing years, the chastening of loss that in the wondrous mystery of time transmutes our suffering into love and sympathy with others.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all: Into each life some rain must fall; Some days must be dark and dreary.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction. We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside, this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described. At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

If this world afford true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing.

Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!

We're worn into grooves by Time by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness achievement.

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge, broad deep knowledge, is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people that you know about yourself.

Our lives teach us who we are.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control , These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves self- discipline with all of them came first.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

If you are truly flexible and go until . . . there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

We squander health In search of wealth; We scheme and toil, and save, Then squander wealth In search of health; And all we get's the grave; We live and boast of what we own; We die . . . and only get a stone.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.

You don't have to tell how you live each day, You don't have to say if you work or you play, Attired, true barometer serves in the place, However you life, it will show in your face. The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart Will not stay inside where it first got a start; For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace, What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face. If your life is unselfish, if for others you live, For not what you get, but how much you can give; If you live close to God in his infinite grace, You don't have to tell it, it shows in your face.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well.

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters - Whose? Our own or others? Both and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Genius develops in quiet places , Character out in the full current of human life.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. A mere knowledge of facts, important as that is, is no safeguard against these. A conscious desire and resolve to think clearly is the true remedy. Our national success will depend largely upon the development of a generation of men and women who have formed a love and habit of clear thinking and who can do their part in solving the problems that confront civilized man today.

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win, there's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But its prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition that will not quit.

It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that is not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain - if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself - I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

A MUST HAVE for all who are looking for the motivation to improve the quality of their lives

My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

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Without a humble, but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. -Norman Vincent Peale ifRemove failure as an option. -Joan Lunden N Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 203 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Never stand begging for something that you have the power to earn. -Miguel de Cervantes \ AtThere isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can. -Henry Ford '1 1 Great Quotes from Great MindsTo succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. -Michael Korda Page 204 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great Minds-Thomas J. Vilord Page 205The individual activity of one man with a backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wish bone. -William Boetcke L~--FPr Failure is just an opportunity to begin again.. .this time more wisely. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -Anthony RobbinsIf you are not going to think big, don't bother thinking at all. 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Great Quotes from Great MindsIn the end, the size of a man's accomplishments can best be measured by the size of their heart. -f Em~ A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. -Mary Kay Ashe 'I ifA man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -Charles Schwab Ii Page 206 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great Minds-F. Scott Fitzgerald Page 207A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. -Zadok RabinowitzNothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. -Madeline L'Engle _j When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe on one of two things: there will be earth upon which to stand, or you will be given wings to fly.What we must decide is how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.-IF= M-- 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success If I You can often measure a man by the size of his dreams. -Robert H. Schuller The poorest man in the world is not a man without a cent to his name, but it's the man who does not have a dream.The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas. -Melvin Powers I ...r-If===% The recipe of success is to study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing. -William A. Ward A ... 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Vilord A' I want to seize fate by the throat. -Ludwig van Beethoven Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 210 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success The very essence of leadership is having vision. -Father Theodore Hesburg Success comes to those who make it happen, not those who let it happen.I4 ff Some of mv fondest memoriesI% Great Quotes from Great MindsThe successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. -Dale Carnegie Prt - -.- ---. ..- ..... in sports were a result of failure, injuries, setbacks, and mistakes. I learned far more about myself and gained more character in those difficult times than I ever did when success came early. 11 ID#- APot ]- lrAr I -I Page 211 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsIn the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God. -John A. Kelley.r Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made courageous decision. -Peter Drucker E-F Courage is daring to take the first step, or a different path. It is the decision to place your dreams above your fears.The currents that determine our dreams and shape our lives, flow from the attitudes that we nurture everyday. I,1% AT- Page 212 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves. -Denis Waitley This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it, or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. ... Great Quotes from Great Mindsftmm

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

The soul migrates from body to body. Weapons cannot cleave it, nor fire consume it, nor water drench it, nor wind dry it. This is the soul and this is what is meant by the existence of the soul.

your private life is public, that's what happens. Over the years, I've got used to that. Sometimes they write wonderful things, sometimes they write what a fool you are. That's part of what it is to be in the public eye.

Their relationship changes from good friends to Master and disciple. It is Sri Krishna's revelations that give the Gita its Divine power. Sanjaya the scribe of the Gita remembered the words of Sri Krishna and this is why the Gita is usually looked upon as śruti, or revealed knowledge. Even though technically the Gita is Smrti because it was later remembered and written down by Sanjaya. When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous. - Albert Einstein Abhi SharmaPage 21 Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your sufferings. It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return. No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve His purpose. Balance of mind is called Yoga. It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be conquered, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation; but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors, which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. For certain is death for the born... And certain is birth for the dead... Therefore, over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. Abhi SharmaPage 22 Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice. There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes. Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. Be free from fear. Be fearless and have faith in the divine. Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all. Abhi SharmaPage 23 Yatra yogesvarah krsno yatra partho dhanur-dharah tatra srir vijayo bhutirdhruva nitir matir mama || 18-78 ||The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind. The last verse of Bhagavad-Gita, which is known as 'One Verse Gita' This last verse of Bhagavad-Gita from Chapter 18 (Conclusion--The Perfection of Renunciation) explains: Wherever there is Krishna, the master of all mystics (Yoga and wisdom), and wherever there is Arjuna (True Devotee), the supreme archer (performer of his/her duties), there will always certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality (policy).The knowledge sacrifice is superior to any material sacrifice. No one is even equal to You in the three worlds how can there be one greater than You O Being of Incomparable Glory. But, you are not able to see Me with your physical eye therefore, I give you the divine eye to see My majestic power and glory. (Ek Sloki Gita) Abhi SharmaPage 24 Quotes on Bhagwad Gita

Put yourself in your customer's place. ― Orison Swett Marden Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. ― Richard Branson A man should never neglect his family for business. ― Walt Disney The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ― Henry Ford A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ― Richard Branson To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ― Thomas Watson, Sr. If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. ― Ray Kroc Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. ― Gary Hamel I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ― Senator Everett Dirksen Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. ― Vince Lombardi Abhi SharmaPage 42 wC Confucius Chanakya Charles Darwin Charles Dickens Charlie Chaplin Back to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 43 Confucius Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius (born Kong Qiu, styled Zhong Ni) was born in the village of Zou in the country of Lu in 551 B.C., a poor descendant of a deposed noble family. As a child, he held make-believe temple rituals; as a young adult, he quickly earned a reputation for fairness, politeness and love of learning, and he was reputed to be quite tall. He traveled extensively and studied at the imperial capital, Zhou, where he is said to have met and spoke with Lao Zi, the founder of Daoism.Upon his return to Lu, he gained renown as a teacher, but when he was 35, Duke Zhao of Lu led his country to war, was routed and fled to the neighboring country of Qi; in the disorder following the battle, Confucius followed. Duke Zhao frequently came to him for advice, but upon counsel of one of his ministers, he decided against granting land to Confucius and gradually stopped seeking his counsel. When other nobles began plotting against Confucius' position, Duke Zhao refused to intervene, and Confucius returned to Lu. But conditions there were no better than before, and Confucius retired from public life to concentrate on teaching and studying. At age 50, he was approached by the Baron of Qi to help defend against a rebellion, but he declined. He was later made a city magistrate by the new Duke of Lu, and under his administration the city flourished; he was promoted several times, eventually becoming Grand Secretary of Justice and, at age 56, Chief Minister of Lu. Neighboring countries began to worry that Lu would become too powerful, and they sent messengers with gifts and dancers to distract the duke during a sacrifice holiday. When the duke abandoned his duties to receive the messengers, Confucius resigned and left the country. Confucius spent the next five years wandering China with his disciples, finding that his presence at royal courts was rarely tolerated for long before nobles would begin plotting to drive him out or have him killed. He was arrested once and jailed for five days, and at 62 he was pursued, along with his disciples, into the countryside by a band of soldiers sent by jealous nobles, until he was able to send a messenger to the sympathetic king of a nearby country, who sent his own soldiers to rescue them. Once again, Confucius was to be given land but was denied it upon counsel of another high minister. After further wanderings, he eventually returned to Lu at age 67. Although he was welcomed there and chose to remain, he was not offered public office again, nor did he seek it. Instead he spent the rest of his years teaching and, finally, writing. He died at 72. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Abhi SharmaPage 44 By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. The funniest people are the saddest once. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. Abhi SharmaPage 45 If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. Shall I teach you what knowledge? When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. When anger rises, think of the consequences. He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. You cannot open a book without learning something. Abhi SharmaPage 46 Chanakya There is no disease so destructive as lust. Chanakya (c. 370-283 BCE) was an Indian teacher, philosopher and royal advisor. Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age. He is widely credited for having played an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire, which was the first empire in archaeologically recorded history to rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Chanakya served as the chief advisor to both Chandragupta and his son Bindusara. Chanakya is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthaśāstra. As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to Classical Economics. Chanakya is often called the

Every Orgenization rests upon a mountain of secrets. Abhi SharmaPage 103 Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves. True information does good. The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist. The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method. Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India - a nation I love. We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. Abhi SharmaPage 104 KBack to Content List Karl Marx Abhi SharmaPage 105 Karl Marx Question everything. A hugely influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher, Marx did not live to see his ideas carried out in his own lifetime, but his writings formed the theoretical base for modern international communism. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after a short spell as editor of a liberal newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris, a hotbed of radical thought. There he became a revolutionary communist and befriended his life long collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Expelled from France, Marx spent two years in Brussels, where his partnership with Engels intensified. They co-authored the pamphlet 'The Communist Manifesto' which was published in 1848 and asserted that all human history had been based on class struggles, but that these would ultimately disappear with the victory of the proletariat. In 1849, Marx moved to London, where he was to spend the remainder of his life. For a number of years, his family lived in poverty but the wealthier Engels was able to support them to an increasing extent. Gradually, Marx emerged from his political and spiritual isolation and produced his most important body of work, 'Das Kapital'. The first volume of this 'bible of the working class' was published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes were edited by Engels after his friend's death. In his final years, Karl Marx was in creative and physical decline. He spent time at health spas and was deeply distressed by the death of his wife, in 1881, and one of his daughters. He died on 14 March 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in London. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Abhi SharmaPage 106 The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Democracy is the road to socialism. All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. The task is not just to understand the world but to change it. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Abhi SharmaPage 107 LBack to Content List Leo Tolstoy Abhi SharmaPage 108 Leo Tolstoy When joy disappears, look for your mistake.Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) Tolstoy (1828-1910). A Russian novelist, reformer, and moral thinker. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate a hundred miles south of Moscow, on August 28. He died on November 20 at a nearby railroad station, having fled in the night from an increasingly contentious marriage and a set of familial relationships that had been hardened in large part by Tolstoy's attempts to apply his radical moral beliefs to his own life. In the intervening eighty-two years Tolstoy became perhaps the most prominent novelist in an age and place of great authors as well as a vociferous critic of science and modernization. Tolstoy's international fame rests primarily on two novels, War and Peace (1865-1869) and Anna Karenina (1875-1877). His fictional works also include short masterpieces such as

(1908), all of which address a confluence of moral and intellectual errors he perceived in modern life and thought at the turn of the twentieth century. Like his contemporary Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), whom he never met, Tolstoy was broadly concerned with the spiritual future of the human race. He attempted to confront the gradual movement away from traditional values with an almost Aristotelian emphasis on the permanent relationships of things, promoting the universality of natural and religious values of love and labor to which he believed the human heart responds. Although the West now knows him as the writer of large and perhaps infrequently read novels, his influence on writers and political dissidents such as Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) has been enormous, and his thought provides resources for ethical assessments of science and technology that have not yet been explored fully. The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience. Abhi SharmaPage 109 I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. Kings are the slaves of history. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it. Mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts. Until they throw the money changers out of the temple of art, it will never be a real temple. Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Abhi SharmaPage 110 M Mohandas Gandhi Mother Teresa Mark TwainBack to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 111 Marilyn Monroe Movies Music Back to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 112 Mohandas Gandhi Known as 'Mahatma' (great soul), Gandhi was the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, and is widely considered the father of his country. His doctrine of non-violent protest to achieve political and social progress has been hugely influential. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar in Gujarat. After university, he went to London to train as a barrister. He returned to India in 1891 and in 1893 accepted a job at an Indian law firm in Durban, South Africa. Gandhi was appalled by the treatment of Indian immigrants there, and joined the struggle to obtain basic rights for them. During his 20 years in South Africa he was sent to prison many times. Influenced primarily by Hinduism, but also by elements of Jainism and Christianity as well as writers including Tolstoy and Thoreau, Gandhi developed the satyagraha ('devotion to truth'), a new non-violent way to redress wrongs. In 1922, Gandhi himself was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. He was released after two years and withdrew from politics, devoting himself to trying to improve Hindu-Muslim relations, which had worsened. In 1930, Gandhi proclaimed a new campaign of civil disobedience in protest at a tax on salt, leading thousands on a 'March to the Sea' to symbolically make their own salt from seawater. In 1931, Gandhi attended the Round Table Conference in London, as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress, but resigned from the party in 1934 in protest at its use of non-violence as a political expedient. He was replaced as leader by Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1945, the British government began negotiations which culminated in the Mountbatten Plan of June 1947, and the formation of the two new independent states of India and Pakistan, divided along religious lines. Massive inter-communal violence marred the months before and after independence. Gandhi was opposed to partition, and now fasted in an attempt to bring calm in Calcutta and Delhi. On 30 January 1948, he was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. We May Ignore Gandhi At Our Own Risk. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.My life is my message. Abhi SharmaPage 113 I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Abhi SharmaPage 114 You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present, God has given me no control over the moment following. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Hate the sin and love the sinner. Abhi SharmaPage 115 Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What is faith worth if it is not translated into action? The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. In a gentle way, you can shake the world. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. Abhi SharmaPage 116 What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Democracy and violence can ill go together. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Abhi SharmaPage 117 Mother Teresa Work without love is slavery. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work. On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order,

is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one. Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. You are the traveler and you are the destination. In experiencing the ecstasy of your own being, you have achieved the final goal. Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incompara ble. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Each is unique and incomparable. You are just yourself: nobody has ever been like you, and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either. God creates only originals; he does not believe in carbon copies. Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowheres is the Now-Here. To be alone is the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you. Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness. Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. Abhi SharmaPage 139 Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love. Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality. Life is a balance between rest and movement. Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself. Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second. Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You can not be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. Life begins where fear ends. My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently. The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it. If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want! In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light. Abhi SharmaPage 140 wR Rabindranath Tagore Robert FrostBack to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 141 Rabindranath Tagore Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Mahatma Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself. Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Abhi SharmaPage 142 If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Music fills the infinite between two souls. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you. In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Abhi SharmaPage 143 These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Abhi SharmaPage 144 Robert Frost Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem,

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church.