Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Nature's creation is such that whatever is worth attaining or beneficial for us, we
can get it automatically. But in the race to grab the things which are futile and
painful, we miss attaining them only.
-Deep Trivedi
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
A person whose mind is unattached to sensual pleasures, who discovers the joy of the Self, and whose mind is in union with Brahmn through meditation, enjoys eternal bliss.
At the time of God-realisation, nothing new is realised; on the contrary, the yogi feels that this state of God-consciousness which he is experiencing was already known to him.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.