To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
-William Thackeray
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
-Swami Vivekananda
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it and use it.
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
Life should be full of colours! And each colour is meant to be seen and enjoyed separately, for if seen all mixed together, they will appear all black. Similarly, in life, different roles played by the same person should exist peacefully and distinctly inside him. Lift your spirit with the joy of colour.