Hatred never ceases through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
-Dhammapada
Hatred never ceases through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston S. Churchill
Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
The unsuccessful person falls for the ritualistic hypocrisies of religion. Such
hypocrisies give birth to false hopes, and false hopes lead to performing wrong
deeds. Wrong karma induces more sorrows; and more the miseries, more the
person falls for religious hypocrisies. Such a sorry state of human beings is
solely owed to being trapped in this vicious circle.
-Deep Trivedi
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
-George Washington Carver
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
-Friedrich Nietzsche