Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
-Anna Gould
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts. And the consequences, whether good or bad of even the least of them, are far-reaching.
It is not that the world has deteriorated today. You perceive the world as you are.
The world has been the same from the very beginning; neither has there been
a virtuous age (Dharma yuga) nor a sin age (Papi yuga). Here, everything has
always been dependent on an individual's perspective with which he looks at it.
-Deep Trivedi
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments.
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery