Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
-Mignon McLaughlin
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
-Henry David Thoreau
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
The jiva or living being is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit.
Peace, happiness, satisfaction, compassion, freedom, concentration, etc. are the
qualities which lead you to those intrinsic powers lying deep within your mind...
from where the foundation of you becoming a "historical figure" gets laid.
-Deep Trivedi
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float, find this exactly the situation of faith.
-Alan Watts