love 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 know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

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.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

I love America . We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America , I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

To understand your parents, love you must raise children yourself.

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.

Love of country is like love of woman, he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

I could never love where I could not respect.

Love is a great beautifier.

What is lovely never dies , But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it.

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.

What force is more potent than love.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

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

How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish.

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.

A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world.

A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.

Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection.

A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid.

But isn't hate just scorned love?

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her.

I did not hear the words you said, instead I heard the love.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

If music be the food of love, then play on.

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 begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

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?

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

If you love someone, you must be strong enough to allow them to be.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won.

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love.

It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.

Lonely is a man without love.

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.

Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give which is everything.

Love is eternal as long as it lasts.

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

Love is what dreams are made of.

Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.

Love your friend with his faults.

Make love, not war; get married and do both!

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.

No one in love is free, or wants to be.

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.

Sometimes a new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

The heart that loves is always young.

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

' Tis better to have loved and lost, then paid for it and not liked it.

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

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; To teach and never be weary is love.

To love something is to give it room enough to grow.

True love is the outward demonstration of inward conviction.

We can do no great thing, only small things, with great love.

We learn to love that to which we give our time.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

What is Love? It's silence when your words would hurt, It's patience when your neighbor's curt, It's defense when the scandal flows, It's thoughtfulness for another's woes, It's promptness when stern duty calls, It's courage when misfortune falls.

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.

When you love somebody, you should follow your heart. Sometimes when you are with the person you love the most, you feel confused. You don't know who you are or what you want but that is totally understandable. It is natural to let go of a part of yourself to be with that person but the important part is that you don't lose your own identity in the process!

Where we love is truly home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough.

Work is love made visible.

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.

You've got to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Respect for sovereignty, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.

Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

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.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

The secret of art is love.

Our first and last love is self-love.

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

After observing the loved and the unloved, we found the loved ones rarely tried to manipulate others.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

The best proof of love is trust.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

The ability to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule.

Had we never loved sae kindly , Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted!

To see her is to love her , And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made anither !

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

Love still needs expression between those who share it.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time . . . It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

L'amour vient de l'aveuglement , l'amitie de la connaissance . (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.

All love at first, like generous wine , Ferments and frets until tis fine; But when tis settled on the lee, And from the impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.

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

Respect is love in plain clothes.

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

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

Love is so much better when you are not married.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable .

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Pains of love be sweeter far, than all other pleasures are.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

All mankind love a lover.

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife's hatred, they are borne each of them apart.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die.

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.

A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to him.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.

Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

I need you because I love you.

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.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you're in love with.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

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.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.

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.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

Romance is about the little things.

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.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Love is something eternal, the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

But love is many things, none of them logical.

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Love you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

It requires doing not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get . . . Only with what you are expected to give. . . . Which is everything.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.

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.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

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

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.

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

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

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

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

There shall be no love lost.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never . . . never forget it.

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world no matter how imperfect becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

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.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

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

There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.

Recipe for greatness? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate and to love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

There is a comfort in the strength of love: Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? Now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

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

When people yearn with all their hearts For just one treasure far away ; They close their eyes to countless joys That crowd around them every day.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

What is the best thing for a stream? It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going - the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all men, and what a wretched world it would be! Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are kept busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. How important is health to happiness, yet the best promoter of health is something to do. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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.

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.

Nine keys to contentment Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

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.

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.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

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.

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

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.

Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.

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.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

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.

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.

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.

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.

Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.

When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Lift, Lead and Love.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos.

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

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.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

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.

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

If you like the post office, you are going to LOVE national health care.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

You can't measure the heart of a champion.

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.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.

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.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

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.

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.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, ' Opportunity '.

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

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.

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01 1% AF Page 251 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you must have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. -Margaret Thatcher ;bs Great Quotes from Great MindsJ What is success? I think it is M No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. -Brian Tracy'% Of J-1 Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. -Dr. Dale Turner ------ ---- -- ' Page 252 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsIf you can't find the key to success, pick the lock. Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.Yesterday's failures are today's seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest tomorrow's success. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a tempo- rary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. -Denis Waitley I ====11rPage 253 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success 01 You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. -Zig Ziglar You gotta have a dream! If you don't have a dream how are you gonna make a dream come true? -Oscar Hammerstein, II =1/It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true. -Roger Ward Babson What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about. -Joseph Epstein Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 254 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. -Bo Jackson IL \ ~ .--.... - Great Quotes from Great MindsWithin our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. I,You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. -Les Brown Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching. -Mark Twaink R, Page 255 Author Biography Thomas J. Vilord is a licensed Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley in the Cherry Hill, New Jersey office. Mr. Vilord has been serving clients in the New Jersey and Philadelphia area for the past six years. In addition to motivational speaking, Mr. Vilord is an active speaker on investments and financial planning. To book a speaking engagement, please call 1-800-676-2201, or to reach Mr. Vilord directly, call 856-489-5847 Order Form for Additional Books Quantity @ $10.99 Total_ Add $2.00 for shipping and handling for the first book and $.50 for each additional book. Grand Total Telephone Orders: Call 856-371-0146. Have your credit card ready. Check Orders: Send your order along with check or money order to: Garden State Publishing 100 Springdale Road, A3 PMB# 207 Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 Name Address City State Zip Telephone Number Or order by credit card: Visa _ _ Master Card Card NumberName on Card Exp. Date If you are not happy with your order, you may return it for a full refund at any time... no questions asked! t .= -.7JI Ir f Im fZ7 ..fl . . ... Here's what others have to say: 'This is a Nonderful book, full of valuable ideas and insights to help you to be more positive and successful in everything you do!

has performed miracles. -George P. Burnham The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions. -Thomas J. WatsonThroughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. -Ayn Rand 'I10 V Page 201 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Francis of Assisi Great Quotes from Great MindsDon't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve! -Mary Kay Ash -m F The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you can alter the difficulties, or you can alter yourself to meet the difficulties. -Phyllis Bottoms Page 202 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to make rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. -Theodore RooseveltBelieve in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! 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 ... Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 208 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success -I still say that I am a little sI different because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house. Success is just being happy. -Herschel WalkerTo have more than you've got, become more than you are. -Jim Rohn F The future is purchased by what you do in the present. Great Quotes from Great MindsSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. -Oliver Goldsmith v-F 0= .-- - '% Ar Page 209 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, with whomever you want, as much as you want. -Anthony Robbins Enthusiasm is the vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. -Conrad Hilton \.-FThe only way to excellence is to consistently improve yourself every single day. -Thomas J. 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

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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,

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

We picture love as a momentary madness, but it is not. It is a long growing process.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The natural loves are not all selfless. Even the best of them is partly self-regarding.