Sunday, January 4, 2009

Guru Nanak Quotes


Here are given some famous quotes by Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikh religion. When it is the festive occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, the newspapers and magazines get filled with Baba Nanak quotations.

Guru Nanak Quotes
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Whoever, styling himself as a teacher lives on the charity of others, never bow before him. He who earns his livelihood by the sweat of Hasbro and shares it with others. O Nanak only he can know the way.

The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

The lord can never be established nor created; the formless one is limitlessly complete in Himself.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.

He who shows the real home in this body is the Guru. He makes the five sounded word reverberate in man.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?

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Sri Aurobindo Quotes


Here are presented some famous quotes by Aurobindo, who was a great Indian nationalist. For his good deeds, he is remembered by people even today. On one hand, where he is known to lead the Indian nationalist movement, then on the other hand, he initiated a new path of spirituality. If you surf the internet, there are plenty of websites, where you can find Sri Aurobindo Ghosh quotations. Read further and check out a few Sri Aurobindo quotes.

Hidden nature is secret God.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage

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Mother Teresa Quotes


Every year, on the occasion of Mother Teresa's birthday, the newspapers and magazines get filled with Mother Teresa quotations. There are many websites that contain comprehensive writings on Mother Teresa. Below are presented some famous quotes by Mother Teresa, so check out:

Mother Teresa Quotes
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

I think I'm more difficult than critical.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

What we need is to love without getting tired.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may
live as you wish.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven
will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love
God better because of them.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless.

The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest
Poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.


Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

I think I'm more difficult than critical.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Peace begins with a smile.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work.

This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Youth Quotes

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. -Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Tale of the Body Thief"

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. -Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. -Benjamin Haydon

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. -Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -Dave Barry (1947 - )

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. -Diogenes Laertius

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? -Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. -Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. -Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

If youth only knew: if age only could. -Henri Estienne (1470 - 1520)

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. -Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)

Praise youth and it will prosper. -Irish Proverb

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. -J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. -J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. -James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

No wise man ever wished to be younger. -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be. -Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. -Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)

In youth we learn; in age we understand. -Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. -Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858

I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. -Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. -P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. -Roger Allen

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. -Sidney J. Harris

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it. -Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us. -W. H. Thompson

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. -W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. -Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)

We have some salt of our youth in us. -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3

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anger quotes

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989

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