The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-Mark Twain
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The amount of money, time and energy Indians spend on 'religion' in order
to attain peace and prosperity, the same if spent on researches in the field of
Science, India can really become a happy and prosperous nation.
-Deep Trivedi
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.