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 Memorable Sayings
(A Book of Quotable Quotes)

Collected, Compiled and Edited

By

Niladri Sekhar Dash

Linguistic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Daksha Bharati
33, College Row, Kolkata-700009, India

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Memorable Sayings (A Book of Quotable Quotes)

Collected, Compiled and Edited by

Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash

First Edition 2010

© (Publishers: All rights reserved)

Published by: Mr. Kaushik Baul

33, College Row, Kolkata – 700009, India

Cover Design: Saroj Sarkar

Typeset, Format and Text Design: Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash

Printed at: Unique Impression

1R, Chatubabu Lane
Kolkata – 700014, India

ISBN: 81-89802-04-6

Price: Rs. 200/-

The right of the Publisher of this book is attested in accordance with the
Copyright, Design, and Patents Acts 1988, Govt. of India. No part of this
book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in
any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording or otherwise — without prior permission of the Publisher.

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 Dedication

This book is dedicated to

Shrotriya
Somaditya
Kalpak
Shibam
Himan
Shubham
…………
and
Millions of students across space and time

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 Foreword
We want to decorate the prisms of our life with visions and insights
obtained from diverse thoughts and experiences. In every turn of our
journey through life we come across events and incidents that contribute
to enrich us with numerous realizations to make our life meaningful and
worth-living. In this journey called life wise seers make novel observations,
which they crystallise into thoughtful sayings for us to interpret our life in
new light while we traverse the path they have travelled. These thoughts
provide us with necessary directions to proceed in life with a better vision
about our existence. Here lies importance of quotations and meaningful
statements made by the foreseers.

In this volume I have made a humble attempt to collect and compile, as

far as it has been possible, a large number of insightful quotations made
by great thinkers with an intention to support ourselves with
introspections and visions of the foreseers manifested in their sayings. I
hope this collection of quotations will help us in various spheres of our life
when we come across numerous external pressures and troubles that tell
upon our nerves in such a manner that we fail to equip ourselves to fight
against all these odds with a brave heart and cool nerves. This volume, I
believe, will help us to face adversities and challenges of life with more
courage, integrity, and confidence to come out with good success and
accomplished missions. What we all need is nothing but a more positive
attitude towards life and the problems of life we face.

It has not been an easy task to collect these valuable quotations for this
volume as these are found scattered in guise of coated pebbles. But when
the coats are removed these are recognized as gems and jewels that can
glitter the gloomy minds and illuminate darkened hearts. Also, these can
work as elixir for the demoralized and disheartened lost in the labyrinth
of life and living, dream and realisation, struggle and survival, and
aspiration and achievement.

The quotations included in this volume may be used by one and all in
speech and writings. People can easily memorise appropriate quotations
for enhancing their speaking repertoire also. In essence, it can be used by
people of all walks of life including professionals, students, teachers,
reporters, educationalists and other scholars of all branches of human
knowledge. With the help of these quotations we can make our speech or
writing maximally penetrative to the target audience or readers. This
inspires us to adorn our texts with suitable quotations plucked from
writings of great people so that our texts become impressive. Since
suitable quotations are not always readily available for this kind of
activity, this books aims at providing a large list of quotations of different
types to readers so that they can select appropriate ones from this
collection to use in their talks and texts, as and when required. Therefore,

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this book may be treated as an all-purpose handbook endowed with the
following features.

It contains quotations obtained from various sources of human

thought and expression, including scriptures, parables, literary texts,
science books, poems, journals, newspapers, magazines,
advertisements, dialogues, periodicals, etc.

Quotations are catchy statements made by people of different walks

of life, e.g., philosophers, literary figures, cinema artists, scientists, social
scientists, media persons, entrepreneurs, columnists, journalists,
businessmen, sports persons, social workers, psychologists, politicians,
scholars, public figures, linguists, mathematicians, biologists, and many
others.

People who have made these quotations do not come from Europe
and America alone. They come from many other countries like
India, Japan, China, Canada, Russia, Australia, German, England,
France, Italy, Iran, Africa, Nigeria, and others. So, with regard to
contributors, the book has almost global coverage.

Some unique and insightful proverbial statements which are often

referred to as quotations are also included in this book.

It also contains many quotations of obscure origin. These are

included here due to their time-tasted relevance as well as for
philosophical insight and pragmatic visualisation.

I have excluded lines from English literary texts included in the

dictionaries of quotations published by other publishing houses. Only
a few quotations from some of the renowned English text books are
included in this book.

Some quotations, due to implicational relevance, are repeated

under two or more head words.

For nearly a decade I toiled to collect the quotations from many publicly
available sources such as literary texts, journals, newspapers, dictionaries,
advertisements, manifestoes etc. as well as from books and magazines of
philosophy, psychology, journalism, linguistics, history, physical sciences,
biological sciences, earth sciences, social sciences, commerce, computer
science, electronics, medical texts, legal documents, and internet, etc. Also,
I have tried to collect these from newspapers like The Times of India,
Hindustan Times, The Telegraph, The Statesman, Readers’ Digest, The
Hindu, and other sources. Besides, my interactions with people of different
walks of life have helped me to assemble their thoughts and furnish them
here as useful quotations. My sincere thanks go to them who have,
knowingly or unknowingly, enriched me with their insights, thoughts,
visions and motivation for developing a balanced view towards life.

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I must mention the name of wife Soma, daughter Shrotriya, and son
Somaditya who have relentlessly insisted me to carry on with this work,
along with my research activities in linguistics and language technology,
for the benefit of one and all who are often confused with the puzzles of
life they come across in course of their living.

I shall consider my efforts amply rewarded if people find this book helpful
and use suitable quotations from this book in their speech and writing.

15th January 2010

Niladri Sekhar Dash
55, Green Park
Narendrapur
Kolkata-700103

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ABILITY
Ability is of little value without an opportunity. [ Napoleon
Bonaparte]
Ability is the man who can. [Thomas Carlyle]
Ability is what you are capable of doing. [ Lou Holtz]
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. [ James A.
Froude]
If we always do what are supposed to, we shall never achieve
anything worth admiration. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to
glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [ Marcus T.
Cicero]
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of
doing will suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. [ Mahatma
Gandhi]

ABSENCE
Make your presence so striking that your absence strikes. [Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
[Salman Rushdie]

ACTION
Act with courage and dignity, stick to the ideals that give meaning
to life. [Jawaharlal Nehru]
Action is eloquent. [William Shakespeare]
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without action. [Benjamin Disraeli]
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what is a heaven
for? [Robert Browning]

All undertakings in this world depend both on ordering of fate and

on human exertion. But among these, the ways of fate are
unfathomable; in the case of man’s work action is possible. [ Laws of
Manu]
As long as we have at least one desire we are caught in the web of
action. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Be quick in action, but do not be in a hurry. [ Anonymous]
Do not ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes
you come alive. And then go and do that. The world needs people
who come alive. [Harold Whitman]

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Do something if you really want to do it. If you are not doing it just
for the goal and do not enjoy the path, then I think you are
cheating yourself. [Kalpana Chawla]
Events happen, deeds are done. There is no individual doer thereof.
Do what you think is right at the moment, and leave it at that.
[Anonymous]
Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. [Isaac Newton]
Find out what you like to do; do well; and try hard to do it with
excellence. [Anonymous]
He who knows for certain that happiness and misery, birth and
death are due to the effects of past actions, does not find anything
to accomplish, and thus becomes free from care and is not attached
even though engaged in action. [Ashtavakra Samhita]
He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is the
intelligent among men. [Bhagavad Gita]
Hitch your wagon to a start [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
I shall risk the possibility of failure. To take no action is to fail for
sure. I might, therefore, get started. [From FISH]
If we do all the things we are capable of doing, we literally can
astonish ourselves. [Thomas Alva Edison]
If you are to be, you begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are
responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your
actions. [Antoine de Saint]
If you wish to find the true way, right action will lead you to it
directly; but if you do not strive for the Buddhahood, you will grope
in the dark and never find it. [Hui Neng]
Nothing will work unless you start acting. [Anonymous]
Only action counts. [English proverb]
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we
are but we are solely responsible for who we become. [ Anonymous]
People may not always believe what you say, but they will believe
what you do. [Adolph Hitler]
The consequence of our actions takes hold of us indifferent to our
claim that meanwhile we have improved. [Friedrich Nietzsche]
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and
no apology. [Red Auerbach]
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
[Allard Lowenstein]
The real contest is always between what you have done and what
you are capable of doing. [Geoffrey Gaberino]

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 Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are
past it is needless to blame. [Confucius]
Thought divorced from positive action can confirm an individual’s
isolation in his make-belief, solipsistic, ivory-tower situation. [Ram
Narayan Panda]
To make our ways, we must have firm resolve, tenacity and
persistence. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We
can never let up. [Ralph Bunche]
To work alone you have the right, but never claim its results. Let not
the results of actions be your motives, nor be attached to inaction.
[Bhagavad Gita]
We are responsible for what we do; no matter how we feel. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
We work hard at doing nothing. We look for happiness in boats and
carriage rides. [Horace]
Whatever the best man does, others do that also. World follows the
standard he sets for himself. [Bhagavad Gita]
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, “certainly I
can”, and then get busy and find out how to do it. [ Theodore
Roosevelt]
You are not obligated to win. You are obligated to keep on trying
to do the best action you can every day. [ Marian Wright Edelman]
Your personality is the amalgamation of your desires accumulated
through your actions and deeds. [Swami Parthasarathy]

ACCIDENT
The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book called
life. [John Wilkes]

ACCOMPLISHMENT
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my sole duty to
accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
[Helen Keller]

ACHIEVEMNT
To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life.
[Anonymous]

ACTIVISM
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is
the man who cleans up the river. [Ross Perot]

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ADDICTION
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism. [Carl Jung]

ADVENTURE
Adventure is the result of your willingness to live life with a spirit of
enthusiasm. [Cherie Carter-Scott]

ADVERSITY
Adversity causes some men to break down and others to break
records. [Anonymous]
Adversity teaches you the things you otherwise would not have
cared to learn. [Anupam Kher]
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. [Winston Churchill]

ADVICE
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and
the deeper it sinks into the mind. [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but
wish we did not. [Erica Jong]
Advice perhaps is the only thing on earth received with great
reluctance [Anonymous]
Advices, I believe, to the young men are seldom of very much value.
[Thomas Carlyle]
It is best to give advice others in only two circumstances; when it is
requested and when it is a life threatening situation. [ Anonymous]
Unwanted advice causes irritation. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

AFFECTION
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a
fountain; to show them that we love them not when we feel like it,
but when they do. [Nan Fair Brother]

AGE
Do not let age bring you down or make you think that you should
not do something. [Martina Navratilova]
When you are on the other side of your age, you live at the edge.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

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AGGREMENT
If, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never
agree. [Charles Baudelaire]

AGGRESSION
The aggressor is always peace-loving: he would prefer to take over
our country unopposed. [Carl Von Clauswitx]

AMBITION
Always go for the stars. If you never reach there, you will surely land
on the moon. [Anonymous]
At the age of six, I wanted to be a cook. At seven, I wanted to be
Napoleon. My ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
[Salvador Dali]
Keep that fire in you burning, do whatever it takes to achieve your
ambition. [Kareena Kapoor]
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you
won’t come up with a handful of mud either. [ Leo Burnett]

AMBASSADOR
Alas! How should you govern any kingdom that knows not how to
use ambassadors? [William Shakespeare]
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
[Henry Wotton]
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
[Walter Bagehot]

ANARCHY
Anarchy is the initial part of a system. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
System can hardly evolve from anarchy. [ Anonymous]
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. [Mahatma
Gandhi]

ANGER
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
[African Proverb]
An angry person starts transmitting vibrations of anger and violence
around him. [Swami Chaitanya]
Anger is nothing but temporary madness, and it is the same with
excitement and anxiety. [Ma Amrita]

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Anger is only one letter short of ‘danger’. [Anonymous]
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow
beyond what you are. [Cherie Carter-Scott]

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; and concealed

often hardens into revenge. [Bulwer Lytton]
Anyone who angers you conquers you. [Elizabeth Kenny]
As flame is enveloped by smoke and mirror by dirt, so knowledge is
enveloped by wrath. [Bhagabad Gita]
Cast off anger from your heart like an arrow from the bow, so that
you again can be friends and live together in harmony. [Atharva
Veda]
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to
be angry. [Lyman Abbott]
Even the fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it. [ Nigerian
Proverb]
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Forget anger towards all who have offended you, for from anger
springs a multitude of wrongs and nothing else. [ Thiruvalluvar
Thirukural]
From anger arises infatuation; from infatuation arises confusion of
memory, loss of reason; and from loss of reason one goes to
complete ruin. [Bhagabad Gita]
Give me that man. That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in
my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart, as I do thee. [ William
Shakespeare]
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to
malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle is complete.
[David Hume]
Holding to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else. But you are the one who gets burned.
[Gautama Buddha]
I was with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was
angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. [ William Blake]
If there is something fighting within you, it makes your life
unbearable. Anger is to be converted into something else or it
destroys you. [Anthony Hopkins]
It is a simple waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves
badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go. [ Lee Storey]
It is wrong to say we should not get angry. Selfish anger is bad, but
anger for the welfare of the world is not. If your anger creates a

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 power in you to change what is wrong, it is positive. [ Swami
Nikhilananda]
One does not have to be a scientist to understand effects of anger
on one’s health. One has only to be little sensitive. [Swami
Chaitanya]
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to
die. [Malachy McCourt]
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you
will ever regret. [Ambrose Bierce]
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers
reason still. [Alexander Pope]
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil
because it is not angry enough. [Bede Jerrett]
When anger rises, think of the consequences. [Confucius]
Your physical anger brings dishonour on yourself. Your mental
anger disturbs your thinking. How can the fire in your house burn
the neighbour’s house without engulfing your own? [ Basavanna
Vacana]

ANIMAL
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices
made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. [ Victor
Hugo]
Animals are agreeable friends; they ask no questions and pass no
criticisms. [George Eliot]
Better to live one year as a tiger than hundred years as a sheep.
[Madonna]
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals
are to be found in men and each of them exists in some men,
sometimes several at the same time. [Victor Hugo]
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of
being, as a tree comes into full blossoms, a bird into spring, or a tiger
into lustre. [D. H. Lawrence]
There is an animal deep within us — surfaced when we are guided
by our instinct. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated
our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that if they were
able to formulate a religion, they would depict a devil in human
form. [William Inge]

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ANXIETY
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I would not be so anxious.
[Mignon McLaughlin]
If we can raise ourselves above the layer of our expectation, our
anxiety will disappear. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Indulgence in constant thoughts of melancholy, fear, anger, remorse,
envy, sorrow, hatred, discomfort or worry; and lack of necessities for
normal and happy living are the causes of anxiety. [Swami
Yogananda]

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. [ Plato]

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with
preparations for living, so that we never really live at all. [ Leo
Tolstoy]
The disturbance of mental equilibrium results in nervous disorders
and is caused by continuous states of excitement or excessive
stimulation of senses. [Swami Yogananda]
These days almost all of us are seriously anxious for nothing. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the
old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his
life, most of which never happened. [Winston Churchill]
When we understand the link between our expectation and
frustration, our anxiety recedes. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
When you let go of your expectations and when you accept life as it
is, you are free. To hold on it is to be serious, upright and anxious.
[Richard Carlson]
Whenever you expect something to be a certain way and it is not,
you are upset and you suffer. [Richard Carlson]

APOLOGY
Apology is the balm on the flame of wound. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
If it is a good idea, then go ahead. It is much easier to apologise
than to get permission. [Grace Hopper]
Never apologise for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologise
for the truth. [Benjamin Disraeli]

APPEARANCE
Appearance is always deceptive. We can hardly know a quicksand
from its surface. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
What you are you do not see. What you see is actually your
shadow. [Rabindranath Tagore]

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APPRECIATION
Instead of concentrating on what you have not got, focus on what
you do have and appreciate that. [Anonymous]
Stand up to be seen, speak out to be heard, shut up to be
appreciated. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
You need to appreciate what you have got before you can focus on
getting more. [Anonymous]

ARBITRATION
International arbitration may be defined as substitution of many
burning questions for a smouldering one. [Ambrose Bierce]

ATONEMENT
Atonement is more than a mere apology. It includes making of
amends wherever and however it is possible. [Marianne Williamson]
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every
answer is an atonement and every realisation is an improvement.
[Otto Weininger]
The beginning of atonement is the sense of necessity. [Lord Brown]

ATTEMPT
If you are sincere in your attempt, then success is yours.
[Anonymous]

ATTITUDE
A strong and positive mental attitude can create more miracles
than any wonder drug. [Patricia Neal]
Attitude determines how well you do a work. [ Lou Holtz]
Attitude is a little thing that can make a big difference. [ Winston
Churchill]
Attitude makes and unmakes a man. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Either you control your attitude or it controls you. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
I am convinced that life is ten per cent of what happens to me and
ninety per cent of how I react to it. [Charles Swindoll]
My first step is to choose my attitude rightly. I choose confidence,
trust and faith and — I get ready to enjoy learning and growing.
[From FISH]
The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life.
[Charles Swindoll]

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ASPIRATION
If you truly aspire, you shall achieve it. [ Anonymous]
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise. [Patrick Sassy]
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
[Oscar Wilde]

Aspiration is a bird; it needs a sky. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

ART
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must
write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. [Abraham
Marlow]
A work of art is twice drawn from truth. [ Plato]
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. [ Frank
Zappa]
Art is never chaste. Where it is chaste, it is not an art. [ Pablo Picasso]
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and the highest elements in
human happiness. [John Lubbock]
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.
[John Lubbock]
Art, like morality, consists of drawing a line somewhere. [ G. K.
Chesterton]
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once
he grows up. [Pablo Picasso]
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of an
artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,
things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a
frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. [ Katherine
Anne Porter]
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more
truly artistic than to love people. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Most of us use uncomfortable thinking of ourselves as artists, but
each of us is an artist. [From FISH]
My love for humanity is greater than my love for art. [ M. F.
Hussain]
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others
are behind the time. [Martha Graham ]
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is to
escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless
dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. [Albert
Einstein]

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 The act of visual expression seems to have a therapeutic effect on
the human mind. [Anonymous]
The works of art produced by minds under stress provide a glimpse
of that part of the subconscious that would otherwise remain closed
to us. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
We are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity
of free people. [John F. Kennedy]
White page is a blank page or a canvas with so many possibilities.
[Stephen Sondhiem]
With every choice, every day, you are creating a unique work of art,
something that only you can do. [From FISH]
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make this world
unbearable. [Bernard Shaw]

AVERAGE
An enemy is called average. Do not try to be average. [ John
Masson]
Everything is not for everybody. Average is a negativity. [Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

AWARENESS
When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the
outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the
touch of thought. [Deepak Chopra]

BALANCE
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to
balance it. [George Santayana]
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruits of a successful life. It starts
with recognizing your talents and finding out ways to serve others
by using them. [Thomas Kinkade]
I always try to balance the light with the heavy; a few tears of
human spirit, in with the sequins and the fringes. [Bette Midler]
The indication of balance in life is a sense of well-being, optimism
and a clear conscience. I can only give my best to others when I am
myself at my best. [Brahma Kumari]

BANK
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining, but wants it back the minute before it begins to rain. [ Mark
Twain]

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BATTLE
The battle for the world is the battle of definitions. [ Thomas Szasz]
In the battle of two different opinions we get the third one. [Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

BEAUTY
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. [Socrates]
Beauty is a silent deceit. [Theophrastus]
Beauty is a sovereignty which stood in need of no guard.
[Carneades]
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in mirror. [Kahlil Gibran]
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
[Jean Anouilh]
Beauty is skin-deep. [Anonymous]
Beauty is the gift of God. [Aristotle]
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. [John Keats]
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and also rhythm depend
on simplicity. [Plato]
I am tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.
That is deep enough. Do you want adorable kidneys? [ Jean Kerr]
I never saw an ugly thing in my life. For let the form of an object be
what it may — light, shade, and perspective will always make it
beautiful. [John Constable]
It is beauty that captures your attention; it is personality which
captures your heart. [Anonymous]
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are also the
most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. [John Ruskin]
She is beautiful who upon her forehead wears the jewel of God’s
love. [Guru Granth Sahib]
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. [ Havelock Ellis]
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched — they must be felt within the heart. [Helen Keller]
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a
city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man who suddenly regained his
sight, who first noted natural beauty. [Remy de Gourmont]
The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in
awe, is as good as dead. [Albert Einstein]

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 There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is
what makes its pursuit so interesting. [John Kenneth Galbraith]
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. [Anne
Frank]
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous
parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all
things; which is the mean of many extremes. [ Ralph Waldo
Emerson]
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. [Frank
Kafka]

BEGGING
Begging can kill your potentiality for creating something
praiseworthy. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
[Anonymous]

BEGINNING
A good beginning is the half accomplishment of the task.
[Anonymous]
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step. [ Chinese
Proverb]
The first step is the hardest. [Spanish Proverb]
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone
can start from now and make a brand new ending. [Anonymous]

BELIEF
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief
will help create the fact. [William James]
Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true. [ Gautama
Buddha]
Believe yourself. The whole world will believe you. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
I am a great believer of luck, and I find the harder I work the more
I have of it. [Thomas Jefferson]
I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. [Oscar Wilde]
I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.
[Bertrand Russell]
If you think you are beaten; you are. If you think you dare not; you
don’t. If you think you cannot; you will not. If you think you will lose;
you are lost. But, if you think you will win; you will. [ Anonymous]

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 It is only a paper moon sailing over a car-board sea. But it would
not be make-believe, if you believed in me. [E. Y. Harburg]
Some things have to be believed to be seen. [Ralph Hodgson]
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything
else. [Roy L. Smith]
The most difficult part of succeeding in believing that you can
succeed. [Anonymous]
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief
in a thing often makes it happen. [Frank Lloyd Wright]
They conquer who believe they can. [John Dryden]
Those who believe in God get to the gate of salvation. Those who
believe in God are saved with their kin. Those who believe in God
swim across and help others to swim. [Guru Nanak]
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way — implicitly
and unquestionably. [Walt Disney]
You can move a mountain if you believe you can. [ Swedish
Proverb]
You have to believe in yourself. [Muhammad Ali]

BELOVED
Repeating the name of beloved I have become beloved myself.
Whom shall I call beloved now? [Bulleh Shah]
The beloved of all eyes is in the snare of lovelessness. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]

BIRTH
Birth is a beginning and death is a destination, and life is a journey.
[Anonymous]
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life
in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. [ Rachel
Carson]
Thank God! The world is not run by birth alone. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
There is no cure for birth and death saves it to enjoy the interval.
[George Santayana]
To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady. [ Mark Twain]

BLAME
A certain level of maturity is needed to see things as they are and
not to blame the path, the self or the world. [ Sri Ravishankar]

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 It is better not be a seeker so that you blame less. [Sri Ravishankar]
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. [ Nikolai
Gogol]
One unable to dance blames the unevenness of the floor. [ Malayan
Proverb]
When a worldly man is miserable, he blames the people around
him, the system and the world in general. When a seeker is
miserable, he blames not only the world — he also blames the path,
the knowledge, and himself. [Sri Ravishankar]

BLISS
As long as you do not subdue the mind, you cannot get rid of your
desires, you cannot control your restless mind, and you cannot
achieve bliss. [Yoga Vasisth]
If you want to reach the state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and
internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control,
the need to be approved, and the need to judge. [ Deepak Chopra]
It is good to be just plain happy, it is a little better to know that you
are happy; but to understand that you are happy and to know why
and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the
knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. [Henry Miller]
Knowledge of truth, subjection of mind and the abandonment of
desires are the causes of spiritual bliss. [Yoga Vasisth]
Where there is faith there is love; where there is love there is peace;
where there is peace there is God; where there is God there is bliss.
[Satya Sai Baba]
You quaff drink from a hundred fountains; whenever any of these
yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime
fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from
other fountains. [Jalaluddin Rumi]

BLOOD
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
[Spanish Proverb]
Give me blood, I promise you freedom. [ Subhas Chandra Bose]

BODY
We touch heaven as we lay our hand on a human body. [ Friedrich
Leopold]
Our body is a boat that carries our soul to the land of wish
fulfilment. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

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BONDAGE
A cage is a cage, even if its bars are made of gold. [ V. N. Menon]
Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never
withdraw yourself from them. [Huang Po]
It is bondage when mind desires or grieves at anything, rejects or
accepts anything, feels happy or becomes angry at anything.
[Astavakra Samhita]

BOOK
A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes
as sincerely from the author’s soul. [Aldous Huxley]
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely
to look out. [George C. Lichtenberg]
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought
without breaking it or explore an explosive idea without fear it will
go off in your face. [Edward P. Morgan]
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money,
books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the
maximum — of both books and money! But especially books, for
books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a
friend; it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book
with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you
are enriched threefold. [Henry Miller]
A book worth reading is worth buying. [John Ruskin]
A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and
still remains a friend. [Anonymous]
A good book should leave you slight exhausted at the end. You live
several lives while reading it. [William Styron]
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as
well as for the body. [Margaret Fuller]
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
[Thomas Jefferson]
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the
delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes
to life. [Norman Cousins]
A room without books is like a body without a soul. [ Cicero]
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is
that you can take it to bed with you. [Daniel J. Boorstein]
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place
we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these
days is a collection of books. [Albert Camus]

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and
the books of all time. [John Ruskin]
Book is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can
get both provocation and privacy. [Edward P. Morgan]
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes a house. [Henry Ward Beecher]
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is
the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They
are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be
warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a
satellite instead of a system. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent,
literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a
standstill. [Barbara Tuchman]
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his are
not very new after all. [Abraham Lincoln]
Do give books — religious or otherwise — for Christmas. They are
never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. [Lenore
Hershey]
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal
life. [Mark Twain]
Great books are the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of
the mind. [G. E. Woodberry]
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who
care about books. [Ann Richards]
I have every sympathy for those Americans who were so horrified by
what they had read about the effects of smoking that they gave up
reading. [Henry G. Strauss]
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a
passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do
not already possess. [Mortimer Adler]
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you
can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
[Mortimer Adler]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with
superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their
most previous thought, and pour their souls into ours. God be
thanked for books. [William Ellery Channing]
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of
a long day makes that day happier. [Kathleen Norris]
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
[Bell Hooks]

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
[Wortley Montagu]
Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in
bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in
bed with a book after being called in the morning. [ Rose Macaulay]
Our house was a temple of books. We owned thousands, nay
millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and
turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton
Court’s. Books ruled our lives. They were our demy Gods. [ Nick
Bantock]
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they
like. [Abraham Lincoln]
Readers are plentiful, but thinkers are very rare. [ Harriet
Martineau]
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good and fulfilled life.
[Mortimer Adler]
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. [Louisa May
Alcott]
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed on and digested. [Francis Bacon]
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. [ Ralph
Waldo Emerson]
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I shall waste no
time reading it. [Moses Hadas]
The books that help you most are those which make you think the
most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a
great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought,
deep freighted with truth and beauty. [Theodore Parker]
The books which help you most are those which make you think the
most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great
book that comes from a great thinker — it is a ship of thought, deep
freighted with truth and with beauty. [Theodore Parker]
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism
is unreadable and literature is not read. [ Oscar Wilde]
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important
education not through the books but through our works. We are
developed by our daily tasks or else demoralized by it, as by
nothing else. [Anna G. Spencer]
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it
distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and
experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. [ Elizabeth
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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the
man who cannot read them. [Mark Twain]
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another
who shares the same books. [Katherine Mansfield]
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more
intensely for the reading of it. [Elizabeth Brew]
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their
ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It is not because
the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because
the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one
right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will
not tell itself. [Mark Twain]
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it;
the other that you can boast about it. [ Bertrand Russell]
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who
wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
[G. K. Chesterton]
Those who say they have only one life to live must learn to read
books. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are
the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting
thought. [Harry S. Truman]
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn
over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes
as sincerely from the author’s soul. [Aldous Huxley]
A book is a mirror. If an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely
to look out. [George C. Lichtenberg]
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money,
books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the
maximum of both books and money! But especially books, for
books represent infinitely more than money. [Henry Miller]
A book worth reading is worth buying. [John Ruskin]
A book is not only a friend; it makes friends for you. When you have
possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when
you pass it on you are enriched threefold. [ Henry Miller]

BOREDOM
In order to live freely and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It,
however, is not always an easy sacrifice. [Richard Bach]
Someone is boring me. I think it is me. [Dylan Thomas]

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 When people feel bored, it is primarily with their own selves that
they are bored. [Jules Renard]
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. [Bert
Leston Taylor]

A tired heart makes a tried body. So keep your heart lively always.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

BRAIN
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents
and great stretches of unknown territory. [C. Cajal]
We hardly care to use our brain although every one of us has one.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

BRAVERY
Bravery lives near the territory of foolishness. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The true definition of bravery is when you know the odds, when you
know what exactly you are up against, when you also know you
are sticking your neck out — and yet that is exactly what you do.
[Sobha De]

BREATH
Breath is the bridge that connects life to consciousness, which unites
your body and thoughts. [Thich Nhat Hanh]

BRIBE
I have often noticed that a bribe changes a relation. [ Graham
Greene]
The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own
importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes inferior, like a
man who has paid for a woman [Graham Greene]

BROTHERHOOD
All men are brothers, like the seas of world, so why do winds and
waves clash so fiercely everywhere in this world? [Emperor Hirohito]

BUDGET
The government delivers only one half of its budgetary promises. It
collects taxes, it juggles around funds — but more often than not it
fails to give to the people due benefits. [Anonymous]

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BUREACRACY
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
[Eugene McCarthy]

BUSINESS
Business underlies everything in our life, including our spiritual life.
Witness the fact that in the Lord’s prayer the first petition is for daily
bread. [Woodrow Wilson]
Every one lives in this world by selling something. [ Robert Luis
Stevenson]
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. [Jalaluddin Rumi]
Talk of nothing but business and dispatch with that business quickly.
[Aldus Manutius]
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. [ George
Herbert]
There is no business like a show business. [David Letterman]
What is two plus two? Depends on whether you are buying or
selling. [Anonymous]

CALAMITY
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know
ourselves. [William Davenant]

CAUSE AND EFFECT

Everything has a cause and for everything there is an effect. [ Walter
J. Turner]
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. [ Ralph Waldo
Emerson]

The law of causality encourages an intelligent person to use his

intelligence to create new causes and attain new results. [ Hu Shih]
The will is not free — it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect
— but there is something behind the will which is free. [Swami
Vivekananda]

CAUTION
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
[Jawaharlal Nehru]

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CENSORSHIP
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with
illusion. [Ayn Rand]

CERTAINTY
Wherever you turn there is uncertainty; only death is sure, but even
the day of your death is uncertain. [St. Augustine]
Without measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of
human life would be destroyed. [Winston Churchill]

CHALLENGE
Challenges are what make our life really interesting and
overcoming these challenges is what makes our life truly
meaningful. [Joshua J. Marine]
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyse you; they are
supposed to help you discover who you are. [ B. J. Reagan]
Living a life you aspire for in this world of adversities and turmoil is
itself a great challenge. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is
trying to make you be somebody else. [ E. E. Cummings]
To meet challenge of our times, I believe that humanity must
develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. [ Dalai Lama]
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage
and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in
pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not
ready. [Paulo Coelho]

CHAMPION
Champions do not take things lying down. They simply bounce back
whenever they are thrown on the ground. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
When you take all obstacles in your stride to set examples before
others, you are a champion. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

CHANGE
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied
by drawbacks and discomforts. [Arnold Bennett]
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place
and be happy there. [Elizabeth Clarke Dunn]
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. [ Alvin
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 Change should be towards growth. A process of self-analysis helps
one to be a better human. [Siva Sankari]
In a progressive country change is constant. It is inevitable.
[Benjamin Disraeli]
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. [ Edwards
Deming]
It is not that some people have willpower and some do not. It is that
some people are ready to change and others are not. [ James
Gordon]
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to
change them yourself. [Andy Warhol]
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be
frightened if change was stopped. [Lyman Lloyd Bryson]
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
[Falkland Lucius Cary]

CHAOS
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. [ Henry Adams]
It is indeed a very long journey from chaos to cosmos. [Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

CHARM
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear
question. [Albert Camus]

CHARACTER
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you
there. [Stevie Wonder]
Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The
shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. [ Abraham
Lincoln]
Everyone tries to define this thing called character. It is not hard.
Character is doing what is right when nobody is looking. [Ralph
Waldo Emerson]
I build my character first before I try to build my life. [Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what
God and angels know of us. [Thomas Paine]

CHEER
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. [Philander Johnson]

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 Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to
bear are those which never happen. [J. R. Lowell]
The Holy Spirit rests on him only who has a joyous heart. [ Talmud]

CHILDREN
A parent should never make distinctions between his children.
[Talmud]
Children are enthralled by the process of observing and experiencing
the wonder and beauty in every single thing. [Anonymous]
Children are God’s apostles, day by day, sent forth to preach of love,
and hope and peace. [James R. Lowell]
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each
and every moment. [John Bradshaw]
Children are wonderful gifts. They have extraordinary capacity to
see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for
what they are. [Desmond Tutu]
Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school and then
she said, “These are my jewels” [Robert Burton]
Having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful
feelings in the world. [Anonymous]
How will our children know who they are if they do not know where
they come from? [John Steinbeck]
If we do not stand up for children, then we do not stand for much.
[Marian Wright Edelman]
In a family, parents are responsible for the welfare of children and
offer children an embracing, unconditional love. [World Scripture]
Just become a child and your eyes will be able to see the point. And
from that moment, internal growth goes on happening. [ Osho]
Life’s aspirations come in the guise of children. [ Rabindranath
Tagore]
Like angels children are sinless. They live to soften and purify our
hearts, and as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.
[Fyodor Dostoevsky]
Saving a little child and bringing him to his own is a better business
than loafing around the throne. [John Hay]
There are two gifts we can give our children: One is roots. The other
is wings. [Carter Holdings]
There is nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling
their breath on your cheeks. [Anonymous]

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 There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.
[Katherine Hepburn]
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself
once in a while. [Josh Billings]
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them
violence. [Colman MacCarthy]
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching
them to walk and talk. The next twelve months we tell them to sit
down and shut up. [Phyllis Diller]
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. [ Brian W. Alidiss]
When you dishonour a child, you dishonour your future. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
When your newly born child holds your little finger in his little fist,
that you are hooked for life. [Anonymous]
You teach a child to read, and he or she will be able to pass a
literacy test. [George Bush]
Your children need your presence more than your presents. [ Jesse
Jackson]
Your children will see what you are all about by what you live
rather than what you say. [Wayne Dyer]

CHOICE
If a drop of water falls in a lake, there is no identity. But if it falls on
a leaf of lotus, it shines like a pearl. So choose the best place where
you can shine. [Anonymous]
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are,
what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to go
there. [Kofi Annan]
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we do experience them.
[Kahlil Gibran]
When you have to make a choice and do not make it, that is in
itself a choice. [William James]
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose
consequences of our actions. [Stephen Covey]

CHRISTIANITY
It is better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
[Herman Melville]

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CITIZEN
No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
[Felix Frankfurter]
What is a citizen when a few political goons control a country?
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

CIVILIZATION
Civilization is rooted in nature, which has shaped human culture
and has influenced all the artistic and scientific achievements, and
living in harmony with nature gives man the best opportunities for
the development of his creativity, and for rest and recreation.
[World Charter]
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the
level of civilization. [Elizabeth C. Stanton]
The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its
prisons. [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
We used to build civilisations. Now we build shopping malls. [ Bill
Bryson]
You cannot say civilisation does not advance — for every war they
kill you in a new way. [Will Rogers]

CIRCUMSTANCE
Circumstances that surpass our circumference are beyond our
interference. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
We are not creatures of circumstances; we are the creators of
circumstances. [Benjamin Disraeli]
Circumstances can easily make you a devil out of an angel
[Anonymous]

CLARITY
Clarity can be achieved simply by shifting perspective from other to
self. [Cherie Carter-Scott]
Clarity is the state of seeing clearly. [Cherie Carter-Scott]
The best way to learn clarity is to identify those times when you are
not experiencing it; the moments of fogginess can be the clues that
the lesson of clarity is being presented. [Cherie Carter-Scott]
You achieve clarity in those moments of startling insights when you
are able to shift your perspective by viewing a situation in a new
light. [Cherie Carter-Scott]

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CLASSROOM
The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
[Anonymous]

CLEANLINESS
Cleanliness is not a part of religion. Cleanliness is indeed next to
godliness. [John Wesley]
I do not believe there is a person scrupulously attentive to cleanliness
who is a consummate villain. [Count Rumford]
So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man that it extends even to
his moral character. [Count Rumford]

COLOUR
As the sun colours flowers, so does art colours life. [ John Lubbock]
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher in
storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky. [ Rabindranath Tagore]
Colour is the key-board, eyes are the hammers, and soul is the
piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching
one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.
[Wassily Kandinsky]
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language
and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it.
[David Batchelor]
I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I could not say
any other way – things I have no words for. [Georgia O’Keeffe]
If everything is not black and white, I say, “Why the hell is not”?
[John Wayne]
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour
the most. [John Ruskin]
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through
the mystic realm of colour, which should find expression in a work of
art. [Hans Hoffman]
The world is a kaleidoscope and the varying combination of colours
which at every succeeding moment presents to us the exquisitely
adjusted pictures of our ever-moving thoughts. [James Allen]
To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency
of language and theory — which is both disturbing and pleasurable.
[David Batchelor]

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COMMITTEE
Committee – a group of men who individually can do nothing but
as a group decide that nothing can be done. [ Fred Allen]

COMMON SENSE
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen. [Albert Einstein]

COMMUNICATION
We need to use all linguistic and extralinguistic resources to make
the most effective communication. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Will easier communication be of much avail when people have very
little to communicate? [Sham Lal]

COMPARISION
Do not compare yourself to anybody else. You are unique, one of a
kind, and original. So do not settle for being a copy of others.
[Anonymous]
Do not compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you
are insulting yourself. [Alan Strike]
Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It
is because we are different and each of us is special. [ Nelson
Mandela]
You compare and measure yourself against yourself and with
nobody else. [Geoffrey Gaberino]

COMPASSION
Compassion and forgiveness should be your attainments. [ Guru
Govind Singh]
Please learn to be compassionate. [Cherie Carter-Scott]
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great
indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and
outgrow the latter. [Norman Cousins]
The key to learning the lesson of compassion is realising that you are
in control of the erection or destruction of those barriers that create
distance between you and others. [Cherie Carter-Scott]

COMPLAINT
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. [ Henry David
Thoreau]
Never complain. It shows that you are weak. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

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COMPROMISE
Do not compromise with yourself. You are all you have got. [ Janis
Joplin]

COMPUTER
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. [ Pablo
Picasso]

CONCENTRATION
Concentration is my motto — first honesty, then industry, then
concentration. [Andrew Carnegie]
Concentration is the key of results. [Peter F. Drucker]
Concentration is the secret of our strength. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
For he who has no tranquillity there is no concentration. [ Bhagavad
Gita]
I could never have done what I have done without the habits of
punctuality, order and diligence, without the determination to
concentrate myself on one subject at a time. [Charles Dickens]
In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the
flow of oil. [Patanjali]
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy
in my office and I would not look up. Well, may be once. [ Isaac
Asimov]
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything in
success. [Lee Iacocca]
When every physical and mental resource is focused, one’s power to
solve a problem multiplies. [Norman V Peale]

CONDEMNATION
I will not condemn you what you did yesterday, if you do it right
today. [Sheldon S. Maye]

CONDUCT
A right exterior conduct really has its secret in a true interior life. [F.
Andrew]
The conduct of the wise is unrestricted by motive, shines, and is free
from pretence; but not the affected calmness of the deluded person
whose mind is attached. [Astavakra Samhita]
When we restrain our conduct and appear calm we do so with a
motive. [Swami Nityaswarupananda]

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CONFERENCE
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is
left to the foreign ministers. [W. Harriman]

CONFIDENCE
Aspirations and desires only are not enough. You need confidence.
[Idries Shah]
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence. [ George Washington]
Confidence comes from being prepared. [Anonymous]
Confidence is a catalyst. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Confidence, like an art, never comes with having all the answers. It
comes from being open to the questions. [Earl Gray Stevens]
Focus daily on your greatest source of confidence – the God. He
lives in you. [Anonymous]
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing
that I can do. Because then they will act. [Jack Welch]
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race
of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have
started. [Marcus Garvey]
If you think you can, you can. If you think you cannot, you are right.
[Mary Kay Ash]
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look afraid in the face. You must do things
which you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt]

CONFLICT
The four standard methods for dealing with conflict situations are:
conciliation, placating with gifts, sowing dissension, and use of force.
Placating with gifts is twice as hard as conciliation; sowing dissension
three times as hard and use of force four times. [Kautilya
Chanakya]
There will always be conflict between the old and the new. [ Bhupen
Hazarika]
Your creativity arises from your conflicts within. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]

CONFUSION
Confusion develops whenever I put everything in order. [ I Ching]
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more
specific. [Lily Tomlin]

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 If you not confused, you will not get clarity. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Resilience arises from confusion as cosmos arises from chaos. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Confusions are cob-webs. The sooner these are removed the better
[Anonymous]

CONSCIENCE
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is
offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. [Mary Wortley Montague]

CONSCIOUSNESS
Burn down the forest of ignorance with the fire of pure consciousness
to be free from grief. [Ashtavakra Samhita]
Consciousness is like an infuriated serpent. [Abdul Rahman Rahi]
Consciousness, which is the substratum of the universe, remains
eternally pure and unaffected. We must cease identifying ourselves
with superimposed universe, and thus we shall be happy. [ Swami
Nityaswarupananda]
Our life is not determined by our consciousness, but our
consciousness is determined by life. [Karl Marx]
You are consciousness bliss: supreme bliss, in and upon which this
universe appears superimposed, like a snake on a rope.
[Ashtavakra Samhita]

CONSISTENCY
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only
completely consistent people are the dead. [Aldous Huxley]
Consistency is the key of success. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. [ Oscar Wilde]

CONTAINMENT
Containment kills your killer instinct you need for your grounded
success. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Containment conceals your creativity. [Anonymous]
He who is content can never be ruined. [Lao-Tze]

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CONTEMPT
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s
happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
[Bertrand Russell]

CONTRADICTION
Do I contradict myself? Very well. Then I contradict myself. [ Walt
Whitman]

CONTROL
I cannot always control what goes on outside, but I can always
control what goes on inside. [Wayne Dyer]
The only thing worse than a man you cannot control is a man you
can. [Margo Kaufman]
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This
means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
[Anonymous]
Those who seek to enjoy fruits of their work are unhappy because
one has no control over the results. [Bhagavad Gita]

CONVICTION
If you would convince others, you seem open to conviction yourself.
[Earl of Chesterfield]
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk
of standing by their own conviction. [James Garfield]

CORRUPTION
At length corruption, like a general flood, shall deluge all.
[Alexander Pope]
Corruption is a crime. Corruption is an art. [ Anonymous]
Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.
[Peter Ustinov]
Corruption is the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
[Edward Gibbon]
Corruption of every government begins nearly always with that of
principles. [Baron De Montesquieu]
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it is more true that power
attracts the corruptible. [David Brinn]

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COUNTRY
A country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its
foundation. The country is the idea which rises upon that
foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which
binds together all the sons of that territory. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
The soul of our country needs to be awakened. When leaders act
contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
[Anonymous]

COURAGE
By courage, I do not mean the intractable stubbornness of two
people locking horns; that dynamic is a second chakra power play.
Spiritual maturity, in contrast, is the capacity to stand one’s ground
as a reflection of a genuine inner belief. [Caroline Myss]
Courage is nothing but fear holding on a minute longer. [ General
Patton]
Courage is not having the strength to go on. It is going on when you
do not have the strength. [Napoleon Bonaparte]
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that
knows it not, knows no release from little things, knows not the livid
loneliness of fear, nor the mountain heights where bitter joy can
hear the sound of wings. [Amelia Earhart Putnam ]
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is what it
takes to sit down and listen. [Winston Churchill]
Every day is important for tomorrow. Therefore, cultivate self-
awareness with fortitude and courage. Do not ever give up. [ Kiran
Bedi]
Have the courage to be different. Bed a God-pleaser, not a people-
pleaser. [Anonymous]
Human dignity demands the courage to defend oneself. [Mahatma
Gandhi]
It takes courage to ask questions to yourself. But without courage,
you cannot practise any value consistently. [Maya Angelou]
One man with courage makes a majority. [Andrew Jackson]
Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is the courage to
continue that counts. [Winston Churchill]
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts
and live beyond them. [D. H. Lawrence]
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is
courage. [Thucydides]

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 Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with
consistency. We cannot be true, merciful, generous or kind. [ Maya
Angelou]

CRAP
Ninety percent of everything is actually crap. [Theodore Sturgeon]

CRAZE
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. [Dough
Horton]

CREATIVITY
A creative person comes into this world, enhances the beauty of the
world — a song here, a painting there. He makes the world dance
better, enjoy better, love better, and meditate better. When he
leaves this world, he leaves a better world behind him. [ Osho]
Be creative. Do not be worried about what you are doing – one has
to do many things — but do everything creatively, with devotion.
Then your work becomes worship. [Osho]
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. [Pablo
Picasso]
Everyone is creative. The first step to expanding your creativity is to
give yourself permission to be creative. [Terra Leigh]
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is actually revealed.
[Vida Scudder]
Respect your creative urges, step out in faith. You will discover your
choices are as authentic as you are. What is more, you will discover
that your life is all it was meant to be: a joyous sonnet of
thanksgiving. [From FISH]

CREDIT
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets
the credit. [Harry S. Truman]

CRICKET
Cricket — a game which the English, not being a spiritual people,
have invented in order to give themselves some conception of
eternity. [Lord Mancroft]
Cricket remains for me the game of games, sans of peril, the great
metaphor, the best marriage ever devised of mind and body. It
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 most past-and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a
whole, or in a blinding split second. [John Robert Fowlers]
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such an indecent
posture. [Oscar Wilde]
I think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on
earth – certainly greater than sex, although sex is not too bad
either. [Harold Pinter]
Many think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
[George Mikes]

CRIME
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the
father. [Jean de la Bruyere]
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. [Henry Thomas
Buckle]
To neglect my duty assigned to me is a crime for which I deserve
punishment. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Where ignorance is bliss, knowledge is a crime. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]

CRITICISM
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention
to criticism. [Anonymous]
Dare to risk public criticism. [Mary Kay Ash]
Do not get bogged down by what people say. I have learnt to let it
go, to just let it be. [Kareena Kapoor]
If I had listened to the critics, I would have died drunk in the gutter.
[Anton Chekov]
If you are afraid of criticism, how can you create? [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
It is infinitely easier to criticise than to create. [John McCormick]
Learn to handle criticism. Let it develop you instead of discourage
you. [Anonymous]
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been
erected in honour of a critic. [Jean Sibelius]
People ask you for criticism, but they only want your praise.
[Somerset Maugham ]
Those who fail to create become good critics. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. [ Elbert
Hubbard]

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CRY
Cry is a great purifier for a bereaved heart. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
I always like to walk in the rain so that no one can see me crying.
[Charlie Chaplin]

CULTURE
Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting
to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which
has been thought and said in the world. [Matthew Arnold]
India’s strength lies in its cultural universalism and not in cultural
nationalism. India would be untrue to itself if it ever forgot that it
was an open society. [Bhikhu Parekh]
We should know how to inherit, because inheriting is culture.
[Thomas Mann]
What am I proud of as an Indian? It is the openness of our heritage
— inclusive openness to settle disputes to a dialogue and interactive
openness to give to and take from the outside world. [ Amartya
Sen]

CUSTOM
Custom is what is accepted as a norm for the betterment of a
society. [Anonymous]
Have a place for everything and keep things somewhere else. This is
not an advice, it is merely a custom. [Mark Twain]

CYNICISM
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
[Oscar Wilde]

DANGER
A superior man does not forget danger in his security; ruin when he
is well-established and confusion when his affairs are in order. [ I.
Ching]
Danger arises when a man feels secure in his position. [ I. Ching]

DARKNESS
In the world of darkness light is the only prayer. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. [ Charles Beard]

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DAY
Just one person saying to me “You have made my day” makes my
day. [Anonymous]

DEATH
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings
happy death. [Leonardo da Vinci]
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
[Susan Cheever]
Death is the greatest leveller. [English Proverb]
Death never takes the wise men by surprise; he is always ready to
go. [Jean de La Fontaine]
Every time you do not follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of
energy, loss of power and a sense of spiritual deadness.
[Anonymous]
Never say die. [Anonymous]
One death is a tragedy; a million is statistics. [Joseph Stalin]
Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent on things that
matter. [Martin Luther King]
So death, the most terrifying of all, is nothing to us, since so long as
we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do
not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since
for the former it is not, and the latter are no more. [ Epicurus]
Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who before us passed the
door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the road,
which to discover we must travel too. [Edward Fitzgerald]
Teach me to live that I may dread the grave as little as my bed.
[Thomas Ken]
The goal of life is death. [Sigmund Freud]
The whole life is a dream and death is the interpreter. [ Yiddish
Proverb]
There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. [Portuguese
Proverb]

DEBTS
Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they
make. [Spanish Proverb]

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DECEPTION
Deception teaches us pragmatism, which otherwise we would have
never cared to learn. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide. [ Jean
De La Fontaine]
The world wants to be deceived. [Anonymous]
We are never deceived! We deceive ourselves. [Goethe]
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people
some of the time. But you cannot full all the people all of the time.
[Anonymous]

DECISION
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going
to last. [Marcel Proust]
Any decision that you take when your mind is unclear is not going
to do good for you. Instead of that, base it on just the clarity of your
mind. [Sri Ravishankar]

DEED
A good deed never goes unappreciated. [Gore Vidal]
He who does his work unwillingly, he does good neither to himself
nor to others. Only that job is worth doing which is done with
pleasure. [Guru Angad]

DEFEAT
Defeat as well as victory may serve to shake the soul and let the
glory out. [Edwin Marckham ]
No defeat is final until you stop trying. [ English Proverb]
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. [ Paul
Brown]

DEFENCE
Everyone is always talking about our defence effort in terms of
defending woman and children, but no one ever asks the women
and children what they think about it. [Patricia Schroeder]

DEGREE
Degrees are like false teeth. You would rather not be able to chew
without them. [Godfrey Smith]

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DEMOCRACY
All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be
business as usual. [Margaret Thatcher]
Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any
respect, and they are equal absolutely. [Aristotle]
Democracy is a great institution and therefore it is liable to be
greatly abused. The remedy therefore is not avoidance of
democracy but reduction of the possibility of abuse to a minimum.
[Mahatma Gandhi]
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are
extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. [ Harry Emerson
Fosdick]
Democracy is necessary for peace. [Benazir Bhutto]
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that
whether they are the powers that ought to be. [Sydney Harris]
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist
public organisation cannot live a full-blooded life. [Mikhail
Gorbachov]
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the
people for the people. [Oscar Wilde]
Democracy passes into despotism. [Plato]
Election alone does not mean democracy. [Pervez Musharraf]
Man’s capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man’s
capacity for good makes democracy possible. [Reinhold Neibuhr]
Modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one
discovers how far one can go only by travelling in a straight line
until one is stopped. [Norman Mailer]
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we
want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what
we deserve. [Edward Albee]
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of
democracy. [Theodore H. White]
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with
one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one
man. [Woodrow Wilson]
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to
trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both
commonly succeed. [H.L. Mencken]
We must be the great arsenal of democracy. [ Franklin D. Roosevelt]

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DEMONSTRATION
Lots of people who are not willing or able to march in the streets
will march on the Internet. [Pam Fielding]

DENIAL
Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for
thoughtful planning. [Charles Temper]
Double denial confirms truth. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

DEPENDENCY
Do you know who I have always depended on? Not strangers, not
friends. The telephone. That is my best friend. [ Marilyn Monroe]

DEPRESSION
A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than
a body saying that it needs to some work. [ Anonymous]

DESIRE
Desire binds you and nothing else. Destroy it and you are free.
[Astavakra Samhita]
Desire is an un-satiated longing for life. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Desire is half of life while indifference is half of death. [ Kahlil Gibran]
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things you
only hoped for. [Epicurus]
If you wholeheartedly desire something, the entire world is there to
assist you in quest to attain your desire. [ Anonymous]
Man’s desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he
has not perceived. [William Blake]
Renouncing worldly desires is the goal of life. [Meher Baba]
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along
the way. [Robert Kiyosaki]
The three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep refer to
physical waking, mental dreaming and un-manifested desires.
[Swami Parthasarathy]
When you know what you want and want it badly enough, you will
find a way to get it. [Jim Rohn]
Wherever there is desire there is the world. [Astavakra Samhita]

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 With resolute dispassion free yourself from desire and find happiness.
[Astavakra Samhita]
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. [Jim Rohn]

DESPAIR
Do not despair, not even over the fact that you do not despair.
[Franz Kafka]

DESTINY
A person’s wealth is his destiny earned through his hard work.
[Amisha Patel]
Destiny is a choice. Honest application and focused action leads to
tangible achievement. [R. Subramanya]
Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a
thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. [ William Jennings
Byron]
It is never too late to be what you might have been. [ George Eliot]
Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words,
they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your
habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your
character, it becomes your destiny. [Anonymous]
When it is all over, it is not who you were. It is whether you made a
difference. [Bob Dole]
When we fail to connect between thoughts and reality, we attribute
it to destiny. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

DESTINATION
A ship sails directionless if it has no destination [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have
lost. [Robert H. Schuller]
There are no short cuts to any place worth going. [ Beverly Sills]

DESTRUCTION
Destruction threatens when a man seeks to preserve his worldly
estate. [I. Ching]
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a
determination to survive at all costs. [C.S. Lewis]
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, whether the
mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or
the holy name of liberty? [Mahatma Gandhi]

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 Whoever destroys a single life destroys the entire world; and
whoever saves a single life saves the world entire. [ Talmud]

DETACHMENT
No man shall attain shores of ocean of true understanding except
he is detached from all that is in heaven and on earth. [Bahaullah]
We ought to be utterly detached in our intention, having no one
and nothing in view but the God. [Eckhart]

DETERMINATION
Determine your own worth instead of letting others to do it for you.
They will short-change you. [Anonymous]
I cannot change yesterday, but I do have determination to make
today a wonderful day. [Anonymous]
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a
person’s determination. [Tommy Lasorda]

DEVELOPMENT
Development is another name for peace. [Julius Nyerere]

DEVOTION
A devotee is a lover of peace. He is free from wants and is ever
happy. The flame of faith and love is kindled in his heart leaving no
room for egoism, selfishness, hate, jealousy or fear. [ Swami
Venkatesananda]
If you devote yourself to a work you are sure to get the result.
[Anonymous]
People confine themselves to their own personalities. They have lost
quintessence of their own spirituality. [Swami Parthasarathy]
The earth’s condition is receptive devotion. Thus the superior man
who has the breadth of character carries the outer world. [I. Ching]

DIALOGUE
Do not just do something; get out there and talk. [ Willis Harman]

DIFFERENCE
Understand the differences; act on the commonalities. [ Andrew
Masondo]

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DIFFICULTY
In the middle of difficulty lies the opportunity. [ Albert Einstein]
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties
or you alter yourself to meet them. [Phyllis Bottom ]

DIGNITY
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honour of the family.
[Vartan Gregorian]
If we truly understand what is our true personal dignity, we should
at once spring to our feet and change our hearts and minds.
[Hakuin]

DIPLOMACY
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that you actually look forward to the trip. [ Caskie Stinnett]
Diplomacy is business by any other means. [Anonymous]
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. [ Daniele
Vare]
Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a
rock. [Will Rogers]
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they
drown in every drop. [Charles De Gaulle]
It is impossible to mix diplomacy and terrorism. [ Shimon Peres]
The principle of give and take is the basic principle of diplomacy –
give one and take ten. [Mark Twain]
The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a
complaint, but to secure a convenience. [Winston Churchill]

DIRECTION
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
[Anonymous]
No direction, no destination. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

DISASTER
There is value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank
God, we can start anew. [Thomas Edison]

DISCOVERY
All truths are easy to understand once these are discovered; the
point is to discover them. [Galileo Galilee]

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 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in seeing through new eyes. [Marcel Proust]

DISEASE
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which
treatment is ineffective, tends to awash in significance. [ Susan
Sontag]
As to diseases, make a habit of two things: to make help, or at least,
to do no harm. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes a
matter of opportunity. [Hippocrates]
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases. [1942 War slogan]
Extreme remedies are most appropriate for extreme diseases.
[Hippocrates]
How unfair! Only one health and so many diseases! [ Victor
Schlichter]
Men worry over the great number of diseases; doctors worry over
the small number of remedies. [Pien Ch’iao]
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the
cure is discovered. [Cicero]
Then comes the question, how the drugs, hygiene and animal
magnetism heal? They do not heal, but only relieve suffering
temporarily, exchanging one disease for another. [ Mary Baker
Eddy]
When meditating over a disease, I never think of finding a remedy
for it, but, instead, a means of preventing it. [ Louis Pasteur]

DIVORCE
I am an excellent house-keeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep
the house. [Zsa Zsa Gabor]
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, do not blame the
women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our
marriages were based. [Betty Freidan]
When two people decide to get a divorce, it is not a sign that they
do not understand one another, but a sign that they have, at least,
begun to. [Helen Rowland]

DREAM
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue
them. [Walt Disney]
All the things one has forgotten will scream for help in his dreams.
[Ellas Canetti]

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 Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today. [James
Dean]
Dreams are the touchstone of our characters. [ Henry David
Thoreau]
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his
dream and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he
will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. [Henry David
Thoreau]
I like dreaming – dreaming of the impossible is the first step to
making it come true. [Ritu Beri]
If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up.
[Anonymous]
If you believe your dream honestly, you can make it into reality.
[Anonymous]
If you can dream it, then you can do it [ Wayne Dyer]
If you have a seed, a dream, a vision, planted within you, then you
have the capability to make it happen, and the universe will help
you in making that seed flourish into a grandiose creation. [ Wayne
Dyer]
If you truly dream you can make it happen. [ Anonymous]
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass. Their pleasure is a
long immortal dream. [John Keats]
Shattered dreams are a hallmark of our moral life. [Martin Luther
King]
Somehow I cannot believe that there are any heights that cannot
be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come
true. This secret is summarized in three C’s. They are Curiosity,
Courage and Confidence. The greatest of all is Confidence. [Walt
Disney]
We are not given a dream without the potential to make it a
reality. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
When you lose your dreams, you die. [ Anonymous]
You should never be too scared to achieve your dreams because
they do come true. [Amisha Patel]
If you want to fly with the eagles, stop swimming with the ducks.

DRINK
After one drink I am tipsy, after two I am near to God, after three I
am near to dog. [Anonymous]
If drink could have given you bliss, the drunkards would have been
the happiest persons in the world. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

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 One reason why I do not drink is because I wish to know when I am
having a good time. [Nancy Witcher Astor]

DUTY
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates
about a month, make one brave push and see what can be
accomplished within a week. [Robert Louis Stevenson]
He who performs his duty without depending on fruits of his actions
– is a yogi, not he who is without fire and without activity.
[Bhagavad Gita]
Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another’s, however
great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always
attentive to his duty. [Dhammapada]
No one becomes a yogi who has not renounced his thoughts –
scheming or planning. [Bhagavad Gita]

DYNAMISM
Changing with the new needs of time is a salient feature of
dynamism. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing. [ Bruce Lee]

EARTH
Earth, you great footstool on our God, who reigns on high; you
fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our
parent, and our nurse. [Isaac Watts]
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
winds long to play with your hair. [Kahlil Gibran]
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are
dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
[Nigerian Proverb]
Man must rise above earth – to the top of the atmosphere and
beyond – for only thus will he fully understand the world in which
he lives. [Socrates]
So long as the earth preserves her forests and wildlife, man’s
progeny will continue to exist. [The Upanisada]
Speak to the earth and it shall teach you. [The Bible]
To consider earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as
absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain
will grow. [Metrodorus Chios]

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ECONOMICS
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for the
economists. [J. Kenneth Galbraith]
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has
had to worry about where the next meal would come from. [ Peter
Drucker]
Planned economy: where everything is included in the plans except
economy [Carey McWilliams]
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we
think we aught to have – and that is a moral problem, not and
economic one. [Paul Heyne]

EDUCATION
Academies that are founded at the public expenses are instituted not
so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.
[Baruch Spinoza]
Believe nothing mere because they have been told to you or because
it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. This is
education. [Gautama Buddha]
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for
teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find
to be conducive to good, benefit and welfare of all beings — that
doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. [ Gautama
Buddha]
Education has no meaning unless it helps you to understand the vast
expanse of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its
sorrows and its joys. [J. Krishnamurti]
Education is a process of dissolution. You complete your education
around the age of twenty-four. This education happens in a
completely different way. [Jaggi Vasudev]
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already within man.
[Swami Vivekananda]
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world. [Nelson Mandela]
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school. [Albert Einstein]
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read the newspaper. [ Groucho Marx]
It is the supreme art of a teacher to awaken joy in creative expression
and knowledge. [Albert Einstein]

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 No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man.
No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
[Plato]
One test of the correctness of an educational procedure is the
happiness of the child. [Maria Montessori]
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who
want to learn. [Cicero]
The function of education has never been to free the mind and spirit
of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of
his children should never escape. [Jules Henry]
You may earn degrees; you may have a series of letters after your
name; and land a very good job. What is the point of it all if in the
process your mind becomes dull, weary and stupid? [ J. Krishnamurti]

EFFORT
The mode by which inevitable comes to pass is effort. [ Oliver W.
Holmes]

EGO
Due to individual ego and selfishness sometimes we make others life so
miserable that they start feeling more comfortable in hell than with
us. [Ajay Kumar]
Ego forms a cover. When you are natural, simple and innocent, there
is no ego. [Sri Ravishankar]
Ego is a dream. It exists until it does not exist. [ Sri Ravishankar]
Ego is lack of total development as well as lack of total understanding
of one’s self. [Sri Ravishankar]
Ego is simply being unnatural. The reason we have ego is because it is
necessary in some way for our growth in life. [ Sri Ravishankar]
Ego should go. [Anonymous]
Egoism is nothing but poverty of spirit. [Aruna Jethwani]
Many times we carry too much of ego and intolerance making it
difficult to get along with others. [Ajay Kumar]
Most of the people assume too much of themselves and think that
without them the world cannot survive. [Ajay Kumar]
Nobody is ‘big’ in this world. If somebody feels and acts big, he is
bringing unhappiness to himself. [Ajay Kumar]
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more
distant than any star. [G. K. Chesterton]

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 The ego is not a substance. It is a non-substance. There is nothing
called an ego that has substance. It is just lack of maturity or lack of
pure knowledge. [Sri Ravishankar]
The person in material consciousness is convinced by false ego that he
is the doer of everything. He is factually bewildered by false ego,
which makes him forget his eternal relationship with God. [Swami
Prabhupada]
The soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks itself the doer
of activities that are in actuality carried out by the modes of material
nature. [Bhagavad Gita]
Whenever I climb, I am followed by a dog called ego. [Friedrich
Nietzsche]

EMBARRASSMENT
The rate at which an individual can mature is directly proportional to
the amount of embarrassment he can tolerate. [ Douglas Engelbart]

EMPTINESS
Everything evolved out of nothingness and is again going into
nothingness. [Jaggi Vasudev]
An empty will lacks in procreation. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

ENCOURAGEMENT
Encouragement brings forth hidden ability and wonder in an
individual. [Swami Sukhabodhananda]
Encouragement involves a little loving effort which results in big
differences for others. [Swami Sukhabodhananda]
Telling others constantly that they are useless, stupid and
unimaginative destroys possibility of their improvement. If we
encourage and be generous with praise we make others realise their
potential. [Swami Sukhabodhananda]

ENDURANCE
Endurance is the strength of a powerful mind. Take all failures in your
stride to surge ahead. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

ENERGY
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you are going
to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that
goal. [Oprah Winfrey]

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ENMITY
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly
vanquished. [Johann von Schiller]
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the Bible says “Live with your
enemy”. [Frank Sinatra]
An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind. [ Mahatma
Gandhi]
Better are the blows of an enemy than the false kisses of a friend.
[Thomas Becket]
Find the enemy and shoot him down. Everything else is nonsense.
[Manfred Richthofen]
Friends may come and go while enemies accumulate. [ Thomas Jones]
If I have no enemy, I am the most unfortunate man in the world. I
have no scope for improvement. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
It is absolutely safe to love your enemy. [ Vinoba Bhabe]
My prayer to God is a very short one, “Oh Lord, make my enemies
ridiculous”. [Voltaire]
My worst enemy is my best friend. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. [Mahatma Gandhi]

ENTERPRISE
Our free-enterprise system is strong because it always adapts to
changing realities. [Lee Iacocca]
Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in
attacks without cultivating spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of
time and general stagnation. [Sun Tzu]

ENTITY
What one can be, one must be. [Abraham Maslow]
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. [ Lao Tzu]
When it is all over, it is not who you were. It is whether you made a
difference. [Bob Dole]
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it
all. [James Joyce]

EQUALITY
Before the God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. [ Albert
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 Only as egg in the womb we are all equal. [Oriana Fallaci]
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
[Aristotle]
We are the children equally of sky and earth. [ Carl Sagan]
You cannot be friend upon any other terms than upon the terms of
equality. [Woodrow Wilson]

ESTEEM
Developing self-esteem requires an act of revolution or several mini-
revolutions, in which we begin to separate ourselves from group
thoughts and establish our own sense of authority. [ Caroline Myss]

EVIL
All that is necessary for forces of evil to win in this world is for enough
good men to do nothing. [Edmund Burke]
Being full of greed, hatred, ignorance, pride, deception, conceit,
dishonesty and all other afflictions, we harm each other, plundering,
raping, killing and doing all manners of evil. [Garland Sutra]
Evil is a product of the ability of humans to make abstract which is
concrete. [Jean-Paul Sartre]
He would passively accept evil as much as involved in it as he who
helps to perpetuate it. [Martin Luther King]
Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to
know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up. [Mahatma Gandhi]
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
[Theodore Roosevelt]
Recompense to no man evil for evil. [Romans Christian]
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up
their minds to be good or evil. [Hannah Arendt]
You do not see clearly the evil in yourself; else, you would hate
yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the
water; you are only hurting yourself. When you reach the bottom of
the well of your own nature, then only you will know that the vileness
was from yourself. [Jalaluddin Rumi]

EXAMINATION
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the
greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. [ Charles
Caleb Colton]

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EXAMPLE
Do not follow me. I am a very bad example. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Example is always better than an advice. [Anonymous]
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
[Albert Schweitzer]
Set a good example for me to follow. I enjoy learning. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]

EXERCISE
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I say it, I wash my mouth with a
chocolate. [Anonymous]
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. [Mark Twain]
I do not exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have
put diamonds on the floor. [Joan Rivers]
If your dog is fat, you are not getting enough exercise. [ Anonymous]
The word ‘aerobics’ came about when gym instructors got together
and said, “If we are going to charge $10 an hour, we cannot call it
jumping up and down”. [Rita Rudner]
Whenever I feel like doing exercises, I lie down until the feeling passes.
[Robert Hutchins]

EXIT
Every exit has an entry somewhere else. [Tom Stoppard]

EXPERT
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
until he knows everything about nothing. [Albert Einstein]

EXPECTATION
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
[Benjamin Franklin]

EXPERIENCE
All growths are leaps in the dark. It is a spontaneous and
unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. [ Henry Miller]
At the end experience stands tall far above enthusiasm. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives you the test first, the
lesson afterwards. [Vernon Law]

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 Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize the
mistake every time you repeat them. [Anonymous]
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
[Navjot Singh Sidhu]
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what
happens to you. [Aldous Huxley]
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. [ Oscar
Wilde]
The young man knows the rule; the old man knows the exceptions.
[Oliver Holmes]
To gather experience you must do the things which you think you
cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt]

EXPLANATION
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not
believe you anyway. [Elbert Hubbard]

EXISTENCE
The only alternative to co-existence is co-destruction. [Jawaharlal
Nehru]
You exist only in what you do. [Federico Fellini]

FACTS
Facts and truth really do not have much to do with each other.
[William Faulkner]
Facts tell; stories sell. [English Proverb]

FAILURE
A man may fall many times, but he will not be a failure until he says
that someone had pushed him. [Elmer Letterman]
Beyond a point, fear of failure hampers one’s potential. [ Nandita
Das]
Failure is a great teacher. [Irfan Pathan]
Failure is more often from want of energy than want of capital.
[Daniel Webster]
Failure is the pillar of success. [English Proverb]
Failure will never overtake me if determination to succeed is strong
enough. [Og Mandino]
Failures, which are a part of life, should not prevent one from further
striving. [Bhagavad Gita]

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 I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records
people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s
failures. [Earl Warren]
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept
not trying. [Michael Jordon]
I do not know the key to success, but the key of failure is to try to
please everyone. [Bill Cosby]
I would sooner fail than to be among the greatest. [ John Keats]
Many of life’s failure are people who did not realise how close they
were to success when they gave up. [John Woody]
Our greatest glory is not in never failing; but in rising each and every
time we fail. [Confucius]
Permit me to fail. I learn from it. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you fail, you learn what
does not work and second, failure gives you the opportunity to try a
new approach. [Roger Von Oech]
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did and
those who did but never thought. [Laurence J. Peter]
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in
life. [T. H. Huxley]
You always pass failures on the way to your success. [ Mickey Rooney]

FAIRNESS
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is
not. [Michael Pollan]

FAITH
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not
prove anything. [Frederick Nietzsche]
A man of faith is absorbed in faith with senses controlled. Thus he
attains knowledge and gains supreme peace. But the ignorant man,
who is without faith, goes on doubting. For doubting the self there is
no joy. [Bhagavad Gita]
Faith is life; weakness is death; and strength is medicine. Train yourself
to have tremendous perseverance. Be not be in despair, the way is
very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor. Arise, awake, and
find the ideal, the goal. [Swami Vivekananda]
Faith is not just waiting, hoping and wanting things to happen. Rather
it is working hard to make things happen and realising that there are
no failures; there are just disappointments. [John Wooden]

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
[Rabindranath Tagore]
Faith on order, which is the basis of science, cannot be reasonably
separated from faith in an ordained, which is the basis of religion. [ Asa
Gray]
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. [ Isaac Timothy]
Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.
[Minnie Louise Haskins]
God helps them who help themselves. [English Proverb]
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
[Pearl S Buck]
If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of scepticism.
[Frederick Nietzsche]
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out,
releases it, and sets it free. [Harry Fosdick]
It is lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting the challenges
— you have to believe in yourself. [Muhammad Ali]
Lament not in your hours of trial, neither rejoice therein; seek the
middle way which is the remembrance of me in your afflictions and
reflection over that which may befall you in future. [ Baha-ul-llaha]
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any
immediate context of history. Therefore, we are saved by faith.
[Reinhold Niebuhr]
One may doubt that, somehow, good shall come out of water and of
mud. And, sure, the reverent eye must see a purpose in liquidity.
[Rupert Brooke]
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that
opens in return. [Maria Edgeworth]
The thing-in-itself and the will-to-live exist whole and undivided in
every being, even in the tiniest. It is present as completely as in all that
ever were, are, and will be, taken together. [Arthur Schopenhauer]
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. [ Alexander
Hamilton]
When you repose faith in God, there is room for hope. If you have no
faith, you go about blaming others and God for all ills. Therefore, faith
should be carefully cultivated. [Jayendra Saraswati]
Your faith is what you believe; not what you know. [ John Spalding]

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FAME
Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth. [ Rabindranath
Tagore]
Fame is a flame. It enlightens and it burns. [Anonymous]

FAMILY
All creatures are the family of God. He is the most beloved of God
who does most goods unto his family. [Muhammad]
Each of us will have our own different ways of expressing love and
care for the family. However, unless that is a high priority, we will find
that we may gain the whole world but lose our own children. [ Michael
Green]
In the family, may discipline overcome indiscipline, peace discord,
charity miserliness, devotion arrogance, and the truth-spoken word
the false-spoken word. [Zend Avesta]
The family is one of the nature’s masterpieces. [ George Santayana]

FANATICISM
A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and will not change his
subject. [Winston Churchill]

FASHION
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. [George Bernard Shaw]

FATE
Fate is merely a convention which is regarded as truth by repeatedly
declaring it to be true. [Anonymous]
If fate is truly the ordained of everything in this world, then is what
meaning of any action – even like bathing, speaking, giving or doing
– and whom should one teach at all? [Anonymous]
The concept of fate has been concocted to give momentary relief to
people of low intellect during the periods of grief. [ Yoga Vasistha]
When fate directs one to the brainless, goddess of fortune abandons
him. [Anonymous]
You are the one who has power and ability to change your fate.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

FATHER
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he is
meant to be. [Frank A Clark]

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 Be kind to your father, for when you were young, he loved you so
fondly. He caught the first accents that fell from your tongue and
joined in your innocent glee. [Margaret Countney]
Father is the convenient name and image to affections; but drop all
the images if you wish to come at the elements of your thought and
use as mathematical words as you can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis
for family life. [Oscar Wilde]
I talk and talk and talk. And yet I have not taught people in fifty
years what my father taught by examples in one week. [ Mario
Cuomo]
I wish I could have told my father that I loved him one more time
before he passed away. [Mahatma Gandhi]
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real
father. [Pope John XX III]
My heart belongs to daddy because my daddy treats me so well.
[Cole Porter Song]
Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a
successful man. [Ronald Duvall]
One father is more than a hundred school masters. [John Herbert]
Simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights
when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. [ Anonymous]

FAULT
Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer
from, you are the sole and only cause. [Swami Vivekananda]
He who treads the path in earnest sees not the mistakes of the world.
[Hui Neng]
If we find fault with others we ourselves are also in the wrong. By
getting rid of this habit of fault-finding we cut off a source of
defilement. [Hui Neng]
There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of
God not because they are faultless, but because they know their
faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them and they are
ever ready to correct themselves. [Mahatma Gandhi]

FEAR
Fear is a poison that quickly circulates through the entire system,
paralysing the will, producing a queer sensation in some part or the
other of the human body. Yes, fear is the cause of many diseases. [ J. P.
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Fear is never a good councillor and victory over fear is the first
spiritual duty of man. [Nicolas Berdyaev]
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of
cruelty. Conquering fear is the beginning of wisdom. [ Bertrand Russell]
Fear is the most damnable and damaging thing to human personality
in the whole world. [William Faulkner]
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering. [Phantom Menace]
Fearlessness is the most important gateway to success. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
He who fears not the future enjoys the present. [ Thomas Fuller]
If it is fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart.
[Kahlil Gibran]
It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts.
[Aung San Suu Kyi]
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and
reasoning as fear. [Edmund Burke]
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. [ Marie
Curie]
Of all the fears in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
[Rudyard Kipling]
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose
between them it is far safer to be loved than feared. [ Niccolo
Machiavelli]
The big men you see around are afflicted with worries and anxieties
and fears. No one is big being rich. He is big who remembers him.
[Guru Arjun Singh]
The fear of death is the most unjustified of fears, for there is no risk of
accident for someone who is dead. [Albert Einstein]
The only real prison is fear and the only real freedom is freedom from
fear. [Aung San Suu Kyi]
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. [ Franklin Roosevelt]
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those
who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
[Napoleon Bonaparte]
The person, who takes the vow that he will cause no fear to anyone is
the person to whom nothing can cause fear. The person who causes no
disquiet to the world is the person who is not perturbed by the world.
[Manu Smriti]
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at
the heart’s controls. [Aeschylus]

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 We can rectify our mistakes made in the past with patience and
fearlessness. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

FEELING
I cannot choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it.
[Anonymous]
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor
touched; but are felt in the heart. [Helen Keller]
The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.
[Michelle Hammersley]

FESTIVITY
The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival,
because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all
around. [Osho]

FICTION
The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction
means. [Oscar Wilde]

FIGHT
I am a born fighter, on and off the field. This is probably what has
carried me so far. [Dhanraj Pillay]
My toughest fight was with my first wife. [Muhammad Ali]

FLOWER
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed indeed the soul.
[Qur’an]
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and
animals. [Henry Beecher]
I perhaps owe having become a painter of flowers. [ Claude Monet]
Little flower, but if I could understand what you are root and all in all,
I should know what God and man is. [Alfred Tennyson]
My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The
thoughts grow as freely as the flowers and the dreams are as
beautiful. [Abram Urban]
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad
with joy the whole time to have such things around us. [Iris Murdoch]
The earth laughs in flowers. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the
eternal seductiveness of life. [Jean Giraudoux]

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 There are philosophies as varied as the flowers of the field. Some of
them are weeds and few of them are poisonous weeds. But none of
them create psychological conditions in which I first saw or desired to
see the flower [G. K. Chesterton]
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread
with one, and a lily with the other. [Chinese Proverb]

FOCUS
If you focus you attain peace. [Sri Ravishankar]
Looking to the highest and remaining in that space of peace is focus.
[Sri Ravishankar]
Often we are vulnerable during moments of transition. For a pivotal
moment the mind has nothing to hold on to and in its insecurity it
may suggest all kinds of things: a cigarette, an extra piece of pie.
Suddenly any of these can seem fraught with urgency though you
know in the back of your mind that they are a poor use of your time.
[Eknath Easwaran]
When you are at peace with your mission, your focus comes
automatically. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

FOOD
Food is an important part of balanced diet. [ Fran Lebowitz]
Foods that promote longevity, virtue, strength, health, happiness and
joy are juicy, smooth, substantial and agreeable to the stomach.
[Bhagavad Gita]
He that takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skills of the
physician. [Chinese Proverb]
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what
medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are
the souls of those who live under tyranny. [Tomas Jefferson]
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. [ Russian Proverb]
Man seeks to change natural foods to suit his tastes, there by putting
an end to the very essence of life contained in them. [ Satya Sai Baba]
One should eat to live, not live to eat. [Cicero]
The best way to lose your weight is to close your mouth or watch your
food. Just watch it and don’t eat it. [Edward Koch]
We need food for living, we need food for thought. [ Niladri Sekhar
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FOOL
A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you
do not love. [Sigmund Freud]
Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do this.
[Dale Carnegie]
God has chosen the foolish things of world to confound the wise.
[Corinthians 1:27]
Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not
succeed. [Mark Twain]
Somebody does something stupid, that’s human. They don’t stop
when they see it is wrong, that’s a fool. [Elvis Presley]
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364
days of the year. [Mark Twain]
There is, in human nature, generally more of the fool than of the wise.
[Francis Bacon]
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but
now it happens to everybody. [Adlai Stevenson]
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. [ Cynthia Heimel]

FORCE
Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
[Tao Te Ching]
The direct use of force is a poor solution to any problem. It is generally
employed only by small children and large nations. [ David Freidman]
There are only two forces in the world — the sword and the spirit. In
the long run the sword is always conquered by the spirit. [Napoleon
Bonaparte]

FORGIVENESS
Forgive my past sins and show me the path. Killing my ego, I shall
remain in God’s service. [Guru Amar Das]
Forgive your enemies but never forget their names. [ John F. Kennedy]
Forgiving is better than forgetting. Forgive first, and then forget.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
He who forgives and seeks reconciliation is rewarded by almighty.
[Qur’an]
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or
foe as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by forgiveness.
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 The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
[Mahatma Gandhi]
To err is human; to forgive is divine. [Anonymous]
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. [ Franklin Adams]
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid
knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no
merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
[Mahatma Gandhi]

FORTUNE
A man cannot make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking
refuge under the family tree. [Helen Keller]
We sometimes want only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless
latent good and bad qualities, which would otherwise have been
eternally concealed; as words written with certain liquor appear only
when applied to the fire. [Greville]

FREEDOM
An average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be
safe. [H. L. Mencken]
Being free is a state of mind. A wise man does the best he can and is
satisfied with his situation. An unwise man feels bound even if he has
the best of the world, like the wealthy man who is too insecure about
losing his wealth to enjoy it. [Swami Paramananda]
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of
history. [A. P. J. Taylor]
Freedom radio is an art form. The air ways are the empty canvas, the
producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. [ Julius Lester]
Freedom without socialism is injustice; socialism without freedom is
slavery [Mikhail Bakunin]
Give me your tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe
free. [Inscription on the Statue of Liberty]
Give up anger and pride, and free yourself from worldly sorrows. No
sorrow can befall on those who never try to possess people and things
as their own. [Dhammapada]
Independence is the privilege of the strong. [Frederick Nietzsche]
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. [ Sister
Kenny]
Man is condemned to be free. [Jean Paul Sartre]
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 None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free. [Johan won Goethe]
The greatest thing in this world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
[Michel de Montaigne]
There are two things in life: freedom of thought and freedom of
action. [Somerset Maugham ]
To work with awareness is freedom and to act without awareness is
bondage. [Narayana Guru]
We look forward to a world founded upon the four essential
freedoms. The first one is the freedom of our speech and expression
everywhere in the world. The second one is the freedom of every
person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The
third is the freedom for want everywhere in the world. The fourth is
the freedom from fear anywhere in the world. [ Franklin D. Roosevelt]
Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous.
[Goethe]
When a man lives in submission to any authority, he is paying the
price of personal freedom. [Mahatma Gandhi]
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each
other. [Eric Hoffer]

FRIENDSHIP
A friend in one who knows us, but loves us anyway. [ Jerome
Cummings]
A friend is one who makes you feel complete; fills in gaps of your life
and helps you to realize your full potential. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when
you are fooling everyone else. [Anonymous]
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
[Anonymous]
A real friend is someone with whom you can sit in complete silence
and still talk your feelings like you just had the best conversation of
your life. [Anonymous]
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he would rather
be someplace else. [Anonymous]
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even
though he knows that you are slightly cracked. [Bernard Meltzer]
A true friend stabs you in the front. [Oscar Wilde]
An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a
dead body. [Jim Hayes]
Behold the men who can cure the evils that have already befallen you
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with ardour. It will be the rarest of rare good fortunes if you can
secure devotion of men of worth. [Thiruvalluvar]
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best. They are merely the people who got here
first. [Peter Ustinov]
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. [ Czech
Proverb]
Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Do not walk behind me,
I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. [ Albert Camus]
Even as drops of water make the ocean, so we, too, through
friendship, can become an ocean of friendliness. The shape of the
world would, indeed, be transformed, if all of us lived in a spirit of love
and amity with one another. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is
commoner that the name, nothing rarer than the thing. [ Jean de La
Rochefoucauld]
Fate chooses our relations. We choose our friends. [ Jacques Delille]
Friends, there is no friend. [Aristotle]
Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go
astray. [Thiruvalluvar Thirukural]
Friendship is not seen on a friendly face, but felt deep within a friendly
heart. [Thiruvalluvar Thirukural]
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It is not
something you learn in school. But if you have not learned the
meaning of friendship, you really have not learned anything.
[Anonymous]
Friendship is the union of two selves and lie beyond happiness or
unhappiness. It is simply the other side of our life and thus free from
all danger. [Ladislaus Boros]
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship — never. [Charles
Caleb Colton]
Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying
moods. [Esther M. Clark]
God made our relatives. Thank God, we can choose our friends.
[Adolph Hitler]
Good friends are like stars. You do not always see them, but you
always know they are there. [Anonymous]
I can settle things with my enemies myself; but I cannot save myself
from my friends. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
I do not like to commit myself about heaven and hell. I have friends in
both places. [Mark Twain]

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I have lost my friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to
cross the street. [Virginia Wolf]
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through
life, he will soon find himself alone. Therefore, a man should keep his
friendship in constant repair. [Samuel Johnson]
If you have a friend worth loving, love him. Yes, and let him know
that you love him ere life’s evening tinge his brow with sunset glow.
Why should good words never be said of a friend till he is dead?
[Daniel W. Hoyt]
In my friend, I find my second self. [I. Norton]
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
[Alexis de Tocqueville]
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
[Charlton Collins]
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of
pleasures. [Kahlil Gibran]
It is difficult to win a friend in a year; it is easy to lose one in an hour.
[Chinese Proverb]
It is always wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the
mechanisms of friendship. [Colette]
Money cannot buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
[Spike Milligan]
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish you ability to see
yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special
person you are. [Anonymous]
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
[Confucius]
No matter how serious life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend
to act goofy with. [Anonymous]
Only few people act in our interest in our absence, when we are not
around. But in our presence, all display their love for us. [ Yoruba
Verse]
Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.
[Anonymous]
The friend who is a helper all the time, who is both in your sorrow and
happiness and who gives advice for your good is a good hearted
friend. With devotion cherish such a friend as a mother cherishes her
child. [Digha Nikaya]
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. [ H. D. Thoreau]
The road to a friend’s house is never long. [Anonymous]

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There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who
sticks closer than a brother. [English Proverb]
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, and old dog and ready
money. [Benjamin Franklin]
To be capable of steady friendship and lasting love are the two
greatest proofs of goodness of heart and strength of mind. [ William
Hazlitt]
True friends are those people who are there for you unconditionally.
They are the people who never question you and support you no
matter what the circumstances are. They are the people worth living
for. [Anonymous]
True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet
remain side by side. [Anonymous]
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible
to forget. [Anonymous]
We do not have to change friends if we understand that friends
change. [Anonymous]
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
[Thucydides]
We tiptoed around each other like heart-breaking new friends. [Jack
Kerouac]
What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies. [ Aristotle]
What is a friend? I will tell you. It is someone with whom you dare to
be yourself. [Frank Crane]
When a man realises that he is a beloved child of the creator, he is
ready to see his neighbours in the world as brothers and sisters.
[Robert Runcie]
When two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their
words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids. [ I Ching]
When you are in despair a friend is always there. A friend is one who
cares, who shares joys and sorrows and tears with you. With a true
friend your happiness is multiplied and sorrows divided. When you
need someone, a friend is always there. A friend is one who
understands all your feelings and emotions and helps you to be what
you want to be. [Garima Khurana]
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are
safe, because you can watch both his hands. [ Ambrose Pierce]
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
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FRUSTRATION
Do not let the hero in you perish in lonely frustration for the life you
deserved but never been able to reach. Check your road and the
nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is
real, it is possible and it is yours. [Ayn Rand]
Frustration results from a sense of limitation. Frustration cannot end
as long as humans are identified with that which is limited: a physical
body, a mind and personality. I have no individuality, so how can I
have individual meaning or an individual purpose? [ Floyd Henderson]
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered
God’s grace was more than sufficient. [Charles Caleb Colton]
Whenever you find frustration you will always discover that the person
concerned had been too self-centred. The only hope for him is through
learning to take interest in other people, to find joy in joy of others.
This is the royal path that makes for health, for strength, and for
efficiency. This great truth – universal and human truth – we should
apply honestly to the world and to our life in it. [ Swami
Ranganathananda]

FUN
It is a kind of fun to do the impossible. [Walt Disney]
Life is the funniest thing on earth. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

FUTURE
Future is not an inheritance; it is an opportunity and an obligation.
[Bill Clinton]
Your future is how you use your present to correct your past. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

GAIN
For everything you miss you gain something else and for everything
you gain, you lose something else. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

GAMES AND SPORTS

If you go out there and enjoy yourself, everything else will take care of
itself. If you are not enjoying it, then you are putting too much
pressure on yourself. [Glenn McGrath]
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. [Michael Jordon]
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose. Only then will
you learn the game. [Winston Churchill]
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with
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 pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the
shooting. [George Orwell]
When a man says, “It is a silly childish game”, it is probably something
his wife can beat him at. [Anonymous]
You have to learn the rules of the game. Only then you can play
better than anyone else. [Albert Einstein]
You learn a lot about sportsmanship. It is really tough to shake hands
of someone who just beat you and it is even harder to do it with a
smile. If you can learn to do this and push through that pain, you will
remember what that moment is like the next time you win and have
a better sense of how those competitors around you feel. This
experience will teach you a lot on and off the field. [ Amy Van Dyken]

GAZE
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
[Frederick Nietzsche]

GENERATION
Because we do not think about future generations, they will never
forget us. [Henrik Tikkanen]

GENEROSITY
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and
multiply your resources and increase harvest of your righteousness.
[Corinthians]

GENIUS
Genius is nothing but one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent
perspiration. [Thomas Alva Edison]
Since when was genius found responsible? [Elizabeth Browning]
The difference between a genius and a stupid is that the genius knows
his limitations. [Anonymous]
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
[Oscar Levant]

GIFT
A gift is a gift of integrity when it is given at the right place and time
to the proper person. [Bhagavad Gita]
Giving frees us from familiar territory of our own needs by opening
our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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 If you gift a child a thing he does not need, you either ruin him or
make him imaginative. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Whatever is given should be given with faith, modesty, joy, fear and
with kindness [Taitariya Upanisada]
You should never say “no” to a gift given to you by a child
[Anonymous]

GLOBALISATION
Globalisation speeds up natural process by which cultures mould
together and form fresh cultures. [Tessa Jowell]

GLORY
Glory comes too late, after one has been reduced to ashes. [ Marcus V.
Martial]
The greater the difficulty the greater the glory. [Marcus Cicero]

GOAL
Achievers are always goal-setters. [Anonymous]
All goals must bear a specific and fixed date. [ Thomas Alva Edison]
Goals are actually desires and dreams with fixed dates put to them
for accomplishment. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Goals develop from one's mental projection. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Have a goal, believe in it and then go after it. [ Kareena Kapoor]
The tragedy in life does not lie in not reaching your goal. It lies in
having no goal to reach. [Benjamin Mays]
There is always room at the top. [Daniel Webster]

GOD
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
[Voltaire]
God is on everyone’s side. In the last analysis, he is on the side with
plenty of money and large armies. [Jean Anouilh]
If you have but the spirit of Amida within you and call upon his name,
no matter how high the castle or how deep the moat, no matter how
long the spear or how sharp the sword, who can stand before you?
[Toyo Tenshitsu]
If you picture time as a straight line along which we have to travel,
then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is
drawn. [C. S. Lewis]

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 The darkness of centuries is dispersed as soon as a light is brought into
a room. The accumulated sins of countless lives vanish by a single
glance of God. [Sri Ramakrishna]
The lord did not do it all in one day. What makes you think I can?
[Anonymous]
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as
somewhat of a recluse. [Emily Dickinson]
We are always making God our accomplice, so that we may legalise
our own iniquities. [Henri Frederic Amiel]
We should be glad to know that God does not give us everything we
ask for. [Anonymous]

GOODNESS
If I am good, the world will be good to me. If I am not, I should not
expect anything in return. [Jagjit Singh]
It is better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific
cost. [Stephen King]
Look for the good in every person and in every situation. You will
almost always find it. [Brian Tracy]
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is
for goodness. [Billy Graham ]
No matter how good you get, you can always get better and that is
the most exciting part. [Tiger Woods]
We can work together for a better world with men and women of
goodwill, those who radiate intrinsic goodness of humankind.
[Wangari Maathai]

GOVERNMENT
A government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but
nothing more. [Albert Camus]
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. [ James
Reston]
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul. [George Bernard Shaw]
A good government could never be a better substitute for
government formed by the people themselves. [Henry Bannerman]
Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial
complex. [Frank Zappa]
Government will always misuse the machinery of law as far as the
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 Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep
going in good times and in bad times. They therefore need a wide
margin of safety. [Calvin Coolidge]
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be
compared to the north polar star which keeps its place and all the
stars turn towards it. [Confucius]
It is right that the king should govern himself before he governs his
subjects. [Maxims of Ali]
The basis of effective government is public confidence. [ John F.
Kennedy]
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class
is unfit to govern. [Lord Acton]
The government burns down whole cities while the people are
forbidden to light lamps. [Mao Zedong]
The point to remember is what government gives must first take
away. [John S. Caldwell]
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its
abuses. [Andrew Jackson]
Those who desire that their power should last, let them brandish the
rod smartly by laying it on the soft. Behold the prince who rules with a
rod of iron and causes terror to his people. [ The Kural]
When cattle are crossing, if the old bull swerves, they all go swerving,
following his head. So among men, if he who is reckoned best lies not
aright, much more do other folk. If the ruler be unrighteous, the whole
land dwells in woe. [Anguttara Nikaya]

GRATITUDE
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. [ Henry
Ward Beecher]
With gratitude we can earn many hearts. [Anonymous]

GROWTH
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing
to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
[Brian Tracy]
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system or a literary
dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. [ Anais Nin]

GRUDGE
You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of
your own people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself.
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GUILT
The guilty people think that all the talk is of themselves. [ Geoffrey
Chaucer]

HABIT
Habit is a great deadener. [Samuel Beckett]
Habit is the second nature. [English Proverb]
Old habit never dies. [English Proverb]

HAPPINESS
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way. [Leo Tolstoy]
Always remember to be happy because you never know who is falling
in love with your smile. [Anonymous]
Can earthly things be important to him who is acquainted with the
whole of eternity and the magnitude of the entire universe? [ Cicero]
Earn all that you can, save all that you can, give all that you can and
you are happy. [John Wesley]
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it
go and you learn at once how big and precious it is. [ Maxim Gorky]
Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and
gratitude. [Denis Waitley]
Happiness consists in honest practice of the virtue. [Simon Boliver]
Happiness depends more on inward disposition of mind than on
outward circumstances. [Benjamin Franklin]
Happiness in everyday life means walking wakefully in this dream
world. Self-awareness helps to find out true happiness. [Anonymous]
Happiness is not something you generally experience; it is something
you remember. [Oscar Levant]
Happiness is our nature. To suffer, you have to make an effort. To be
happy, you don’t have to. [Anonymous]
Happiness is that state of consciousness, which proceeds from the
achievement of one’s values. [Ayn Rand]
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. [ Robert
Frost]
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you did not know you left
open. [John Barrymore]
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 If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing
others also happy. [Bertrand Russell]
Most people would rather be certain they are miserable, than risk
being happy. [Robert Anthony]
No human being unhappy can make another one happy. [ W. H.
Auden]
No one never does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to
find that out for themselves. [Stephen King]
Strength is happiness. Strength is victory. In weakness and cowardice
there is no happiness. [Daisaku Ikeda]
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
[Dale Carnegie]
The happiest of people do not necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the most of anything and everything. [ Anonymous]
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. [ Carl Sandburg]
There is happiness in me which lives in spite of all the days of pain and
misery that sometimes I recall. [Grace E. Easley]
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial hall. And
that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. [ Ogden Nash]
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of
the greatest sources of happiness. [Ray Lyman Wilbur]
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different
and yet the same. [Norman Vincent Peale]
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our
willingness to choose life. [Leo Buscaglia]
When you harbour bitterness, happiness docks elsewhere.
[Anonymous]
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness
consists of. You will never live if you look for the meaning of life.
[Albert Camus]

HARMONY
A scientist who explores space and beyond, searching the cosmos for
truth, must learn to look within for universal harmony. [ R. A.
Mashelkar]
Every human being is worthy of reverence because of the divine
element within. [Swami Jitatmananda]
Peace can only come from reverence for all life. Religions must
graduate to spirituality to bring about universal harmony. [ A. P. J.
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 Reverence to all life begins with reverence to oneself. We need to first
stop violating our bodies by stuffing it with junk food and violating
our minds by harbouring desires and cravings. [ Shri Ravishankar]

HATRED
All living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by dualities arisen
from desire and hate. [Bhagavad Gita]
Hate is a cancer that spreads into one cell at a time. [ Dave Pelzer]
Hater is more miserable than the hated. [K. Ajay Kumar]
Hatred breeds hatred but love makes it impotent. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
He who nurses ill-will for anyone, to him no good ever comes. [ Guru
Ramdas]
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. [W. C. Fields]
Let not hatred cause you to swerve from justice. Be just, for it is closer
to piety. [Qur’an]
People those who hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
[Faith Resnick]
The more weapons of hate, the more misery to man. The triumph of
hate ends in a festival of mourning. [Lao Tzu]
Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder the
hate. [Martin Luther King Jr.]
When neither hatred nor love disturbs our mind, serenely we sleep.
[Hui Neng]

HEALTH
Get your room full of good air, then shut up the windows and keep it.
It will keep for years. Do not keep using your lungs all the time. Let
them rest. [Stephen Leacock]
He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.
[Arabian Proverb]
Health is an episode between the two illnesses. [Ted Kaptchuk]
Health is infinite and expansive in mode, and reaches out to be filled
with the fullness of the world; whereas disease is finite and reductive in
mode, and endeavours to reduce the world to itself. [ Oliver Sacks]
Health is not valued till sickness comes. [Thomas Fuller]
Health is the greatest possession of a human being while contentment
is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend and non-
being is the greatest joy. [Lao Tzu]
Health is wealth. [English Proverb]

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 It is no longer a question of staying healthy. It is a question of finding a
sickness you like. [Jackie Mason]
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next
to your conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals
are capable of, a blessing that money cannot buy for us. [ Isaac
Walton]
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
[Francois de La Rochefoucauld]
Sound health can bring us to the land of twilight to leave it gracefully.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The first wealth is health. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, not to worry about the future, but to live the present moment
wisely and earnestly. [Gautama Buddha]

HEART
Heart of oak is our ship and heart of oak is our men. We always are
ready. We shall fight and we shall conquer again and again. [ David
Garrick]
Heart-breaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow
them to go. [Sigmund Freud]
If you cleave the heart of one drop of water, there will issue from it a
hundred oceans. [Shabistari]
We seek for God outside ourselves until we make the great discovery,
which is that our heart is the sanctuary where the lord of the universe
dwells in with all his glory. [Swami Ramdas]
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. [ Blaise
Pascal]
The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look
for the lost heart. [Mencius]
When people’s dogs and chicks are lost, they go out and look for
them; but when have lost their hearts (or original nature) they do not
go out and look for them. [Mencius]

HEAVEN
Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company. [ Mark Twain]
Heaven is a state of mind — a serene and peaceful state of mind.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
[Richard Bach]

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HELL
It entirely depends on our choice to make our life a hell or a heaven.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. [Stephen King]

HELP
Do not look down upon someone unless you help him up
[Anonymous]
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. [ William Blake]

HEROISM
Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to
be done, regardless of the consequences. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere
and endure in spite of all the overwhelming obstacles. [ Christopher
Reeve]

HISTORY
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. [Ariel Durant]
The lesson I learnt from history is that man does not learn lesson from
history. [Raja Yogi]
Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. [ Karl Marx]

HOME
Fools build homes and wise men buy them. [ Anonymous]
Home is where you go and they have to let you in. [George Shanders]
I do not want my house to be walled in all sides and my windows will
be stuffed. I want the culture of all the lands to be blown in my house
as freely as possible. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Once the child becomes strong and robust to the point where he can
withstand water and fire, he will put in his own belly the mother who
had begotten him. [Nicholas Flamel]
The chief blessing is an honourable home – and its crowning glory is
worthy offspring. [Thiruvallauvar]
When the drop departs from its native home and returns, it finds a
shell and becomes a pearl. [Diwani Shamsi Tabriz]

HONESTY
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but
after it conceals. [G. Ehrlich]

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 Honesty is the best policy. [English Proverb]
Honesty pays, but it does not seem to pay enough to suit some
people. [F. M. Hubbard]
Honesty, without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but
subtle hostility. [R. N. Franzbalu]
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
[William Shakespeare]
To live outside the law, you must be honest. [Bob Dylan]

HONOUR
I once knew a lady who offered her honour, so I had to honour her
offer. [Anonymous]
If you want from others give it to them first. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]

HOPE
By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing
the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful. [ Mel Ziegler]
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
[Arabian Proverb]
Heart is where is the hope is. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. [ Thomas Fuller]
If we lose hope, somehow we lose the vitality that keeps life moving.
[Martin Luther King]
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by
people who have kept of trying when there seemed to be no hope at
all. [Dale Carnegie]
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime. Therefore, we are
saved by hope. [Reinhold Niebuhr]
Though winter comes to earth – up there will be eternal spring. [Alice
H. Mortenson]
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
[Martin Luther King]

HUMANITY
Any problem within humanity should be solved in a humanitarian
way and non-violence is the human way of approaching a target.
[Dalai Lama]
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation,
depends on one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-
face. [Pope John Paul-II]

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 The human race’s prospects of survival is considerably better when we
are defenceless against tigers than they are today when we become
defenceless against ourselves. [Arnold J. Toynbee]
Those who divide people are communal. I see everyone as human
beings irrespective of one’s gender, region or caste. [ Taslima Nasrin]
We are, each of us, angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by
embracing one another. [Luciano de Crescenzo]
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
[Mahatma Gandhi]

HUMBLENESS
All rivers run to the sea because it is lower than they are. The ocean’s
willingness to be humbler and lower than the rivers gives it its power.
[Tao Te Ching]
The earth is great because it is humble. Humbleness brings in
greatness [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

HUMILITY
Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you have got it,
you have lost it. [Groucho Marx]
More doors of this world are opened with “please” than with keys.
[Anonymous]

HUMOUR
If you do not possess a sense of humour, you see darkness in every
light. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Jokes work very interestingly. You are something and there is an
unexpected twist in your presentation. And that creates a surprise,
also a new joyous feel. [Swami Sukhobodhananda]
The art of cracking a joke is a creative art. [Swami
Sukhobodhananda]

HUSBAND
A husband is a guy who tells you when you have got on too much
lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. [ Ogden
Nash]
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can
spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. [ Lana
Turner]
If you cannot keep him in your arms, keep him in your heart.
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 Though he may be destitute of virtue or seek his pleasure elsewhere or
devoid of good qualities, yet a husband must be revered as God by a
faithful wife. [Laws of Manu]
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to
spend their weekends with? [Rita Rudner]

IDEA
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since afterwards it must
become old-fashioned. [G. Santayana]
Ideas are poison. The more you reason, the less you create. [ Raymond
Chandler]
If you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas. [George Bernard Shaw]
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing
is better than to believe what is wrong. [Thomas Jefferson]
The ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas. [ Oliver
Wendell Holmes]
There is one thing stronger than all armies in the world: and that is an
idea whose time has come. [Victor Hugo]
You can exile a man but not an idea. You can kill a man but not an
idea. [Benazir Bhutto]

IGNORANCE
Ignorance once dispelled is very difficult to re-establish. [Laurence
Peter]
Ignoring facts does not change the facts. [Anonymous]
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. [ Saint Jerome]
The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds.
[John F. Kennedy]
We try to grasp this truth with our puny little mind and senses and all
we clasp is a pebble. [Swami Vivekananda]
Where ignorance is bliss, knowledge is a crime. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
You know that you know nothing. Find out knowledge. That is
liberation, the Mukti. [Ramana Maharishi]
You must know enough to know that you do not know. [Hujwiri]

ILL-WILL
If you do not take the ill-will people intend to inflict upon you, then it
remains with them and you remain unaffected. [ Gautama Buddha]

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ILLUSION
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
[Arthur Miller]
Do not part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live. [Mark Twain]
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us from pain
and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it
without any complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of
reality against which they are dashed to pieces. [Sigmund Freud]
In the dark of night a rope is mistaken for a snake. The rope does not
really become a snake; it has no other reality than the rope itself. In
the same way this universe has no real existence. It is the pure
consciousness and supreme bliss in which this universe, through
ignorance, is seen to exist. [Swami Nityaswarupananda]

IMAGINATION
Imagination is more important than knowledge. [Albert Einstein]
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything God-like about
God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything. [ Henry Miller]
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without
it we go nowhere. [Carl Sagan]
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the
heart; imagination is much more sensitive. [Henry D. Thoreau]
One who has no imagination has no wings. [Anonymous]

IMPOSSIBLITY
Nothing in this world is impossible, because the word impossible itself
says “I M POSSIBLE”. [Anonymous]
What appears impossible to one is possible to other. [ Anonymous]

INACCURACY
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. [ H. H. Munro]

INCOME
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of
every organism to live beyond its income. [Samuel Butler]
The best measure of a man’s honesty is not his income tax return. It is
the zero adjustment on his bathroom scale. [Arthur C. Clarke]

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INDUSTRY
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of our prosperity.
[Charles Dickens]
An industrious man never fails. [English Proverb]

INFERIORITY
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised
than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. [Vanna
Bonta]
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. [ Eleanor
Roosevelt]

INFORMATION
In this age, information is power. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
It is vital to remember that information – in the sense of raw data – is
not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not
foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
[Arthur C. Clarke]
To live effectively is to live with adequate information. [ Norbert
Wiener]
We live by information, not by sight. [Baltasar Gracian]

INSULT
If you cannot ignore an insult, top it; if you cannot top it, laugh it off;
and if you cannot laugh it off, it is probably you deserved it. [ J. Russell
Lynes]

INTEGRITY
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
[Anonymous]
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. [ Ralph
Waldo Emerson]
Real integrity is doing the right thing when you know that nobody is
going to know whether you did it or not. [Oprah Winfrey]

INTELLIGENCE
An intellectual is a person who has found one thing that is more
interesting than sex. [Aldus Huxley]
An intelligent man sees a question from all directions without bias,
while a stupid is biased and sees it only from one direction. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

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 Just as iron rusts from disuse, so does your inaction spoils your intellect.
[Leonardo da Vinci]
Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines. [Adolph Hitler]
Thought is the labour of intellect, reverie is its pleasure. [ Victor Hugo]

INTERVAL
Between two thoughts there is an interval of no thought. It is pure
awareness. [Jnana Vasistha]
In the interval, which arises between two desires, is a perfect clam that
reigns in the mind. It is at this moment that we become free from all
thoughts and actions. [Swami Sivananda]

INTUITION
The intuition is the suspicion of the femininth degree. [ Anonymous]

INSIGHT
One who looks outside – dreams. One who looks inside – awakes.
[Carl Gustav Jung]

JOB
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. [H. Jackson
Brown]
Job = Just Obey your Boss. [Anonymous]

JUDGMENT
A judge is not supposed to know anything about facts of life until
these have been presented with evidence and explained in clear
terms. [Chief Justice Parker]
Four things belong to a judge: hear courteously, answer wisely,
consider soberly, and decide impartially. [ Socrates]
Good judgment comes from experience and experience often comes
from bad judgment. [Rita Mae Brown]
Judgement delayed is judgement voided. [Talmud]
Judicial decrees may not change the heart but they can restrain the
heartless. [Martin Luther King]
One must not judge everyone in this world by his own qualities.
Otherwise we should have no civilization. [Erwin Rommel]
We may not return affection of those who like us but we always
respect their good judgment. [Libbie Fudim]

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 When you are focused on the way someone has behaved, you are in
illusion. [Cherie Carter-Scott]
When you are focused on your judgments of others, you are not using
them as mirrors, and hence are struck in the fog. [Cherie Carter-Scott]
When you buy a cheap vase, look for the flaw; when a man offers
favours, look for motive [Japanese Proverb]

JOURNEY
The journey of our soul on this earth between birth and death moves
along a predestined path. [Anonymous]
The journey of thousand miles begins with a single step. [ Chinese
Proverb]
The journey through life is the best journey if you have the guts to
enjoy it. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

JOY
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt and in the suffering involved, not in
the victory itself. [Mahatma Gandhi]
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can
contain. [Kahlil Gibran]
The joy of life disappears when we lose ourselves in seriousness. [ Swami
Sukhabodhananda]
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is
only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. [ Kahlil
Gibran]
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. [Kahlil Gibran]

JUSTICE
Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent. [Confucius]
If justice goes astray people will stand about in helpless confusion.
[Confucius]
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. [ Malcolm X]
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. [ H. L.
Mencken]
Investigate well, show favour to none, maintain impartiality, consult
the law, then give judgement – that is the way of justice.
[Thiruvalluvar]
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. [ Earl
Warren]
Justice delayed is justice denied. [English Proverb]

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 Justice has no independent existence. It results from mutual contracts
and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to
guard against doing so or sustaining mutual injury. [ Epicurous]
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in courtroom. [Clarence
Darrow]
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
[Domitus Ulpain]
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a
punishment. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Be not
too eager to deal with death in the name of justice, fearing for your
own safety. [William Golding]
The voice of majority is not a proof of justice. [ Johann von Schiller]
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of
conscience. It supersedes all other courts we have. [Mahatma Gandhi]

KILLING
He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with
sword must be killed with sword. [Revelations]
If your time has not come, not even a doctor can kill you. [American
Proverb]
Kill your lust before it kills you. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
There are many things worth living for, there are few things worth
dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. [ Tom Robbins]
We must not kill our enemies but kill their desire to kill. [Mahatma
Gandhi]
Whoever kills another one without justifiable cause, surely he is killing
all humanity. And whoever saves the life of another, surely he saves
the lives of all humanity. [Sura Al Ma’aidah]

KINDNESS
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. [Confucius]
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless. [Mother Teresa]
Kindness can light thousand lights of love which hatred can never do.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Sometime kindness is considered as manifestation of our weakness.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
To be kind is more important than being to be accurate and right.
[Anonymous]

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KISS
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or even an exclamation
mark. And that is the basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
[Mark Twain]
A kiss is a lovely trick devised by nature to stop speech when words
become superficial. [Sigmund Freud]
A kiss is just another reminder that two heads are better than one.
[Woody Allen]
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers
after four kisses. [H. L. Mencken]
I always have found men who did not know how to kiss. I have always
found time to teach them. [Mae West]
Kisses belong to the shadows, but they shine in the night like stars.
[Remy de Gourmond]
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
[Remy de Gourmant]

KNOWLEDGE
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we
know. We also know that there are known unknowns. That is to say,
we know that there are some things which we do not know. But there
are also unknown unknowns. The ones we do not know that we do
not know. [Donal Rumsfeld]
Before awareness, I know more. After awareness, I know no more.
[Anonymous]
Diffused knowledge often immortalizes itself. [James Mackintosh]
Do not think you are, know you are. [Morpheus]
He perceives the universe as the self itself. As long as there is ignorance,
one looks upon the world as the root of all misery and tries to shun or
destroy it. But with the birth of knowledge of self, his vision is changed
and everything is revealed as the self alone. [Swami Nitya
Swarupananda]
He who knows and knows he knows – he is a wise man – seek him.
He who knows and knows not he knows – he is asleep – wake him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not – he is a child – teach
him. He who knows not and knows not he knows not – shun him.
[Anonymous]
I forgot what I was taught; I only remember what I have learnt.
[Patrick White]
I will meditate in thy perception and have respect unto thy ways. I will
delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word. [ Psalm CXIX]

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If you live long enough, you will make mistakes. But if you learn from
them, you will be a better person. [Bill Clinton]
In an age when information becomes power, knowledge becomes an
item of ridicule. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
In order to solve a problem, knowledge is required. We may receive
this knowledge in different ways: we learn from our experience or
from the experience of others who teach us valuable lessons.
Knowledge is the key of all the solutions. [Sri Ravishankar]
Know thyself. It is the best knowledge. [Socrates]
Knowing the world to consist of consciousness, the mind of the wise
man is rapt in the thought of his universality and roams free, seeing
the cosmos as space in his own consciousness. [Yoga Vasistha]
Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what
you can do. In fact, that is the good taste. [ Lucille Ball]
Knowledge is an aid to develop our innermost layer, which is love. [Sri
Ravishankar]
Knowledge is one of the aids to discover the naturalness. [ Sri
Ravishankar]
Knowledge is power. [Francis Bacon]
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. [ Alvin Toffler]
No guru, no God. Know guru, know God. [Anonymous]
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
[John F. Kennedy]
The man of knowledge feels neither desire for dissolution of the
universe, nor aversion to its existence. The blessed one lives happily on
whatever subsistence comes as a matter of course. [ Ashtabakra
Samhita]
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most
difficult period in one’s life. [Dalai Lama]
The purpose of knowledge as well as the purpose of every civilization
is to facilitate opening of love for one and all. [ Sri Ravishankar]
The raft of knowledge ferries the worst sinner to safety. [ Bhagabad
Gita]
The Yogi, whose intellect is perfect, contemplates all the things as
abiding in himself and thus, by the eye of his knowledge, he perceives
that everything is Atma and nothing else. [Adi Sankaracharya]
To know is to comprehend; therefore, to know yourself is to
comprehend yourself. [Maya Angelou]

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LANGUAGE
Language is a symbolic system based on pure or arbitrary convention,
which is infinitely extendable and modifiable according to the
changing needs and conditions of the speakers. [R. H. Robins]
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols, by means of which
a social group co-operates. [Jules Bloch]
A language is purely human and non-instinctive method of
communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of
voluntarily produced symbols. [Edward Sapir]
Human languages are unlimited – an unlimited set of discrete signals
which have great structural complexity –structure on at least two
levels. It is open-ended and allow for transmission of information. [ R.
W. Langacker]
Language is a verbal systematic symbolism, a means of transmitting
information, a form of social behaviour (with a) high degree of
convention. [James Whatmough]
Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech sounds
combined into words [Henry Sweet]
Language is the most powerful weapon we are gifted with. It needs
careful handling. Else it can destroy us. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can
think about. [Benjamin Whorf]
Life and language are sacred. Homicide and verbicide – that is,
violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate
meaning, which is its life – are alike forbidden. [Oliver Wendell
Holmes]
Speech is the representation of the experience of the mind. [ Aristotle]
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from
sticking to the matter at hand. [Lewis Thomas]
The totality of the utterances that can be made in a speech
community is the language. [Leonard Bloomfield]
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their
own. [J. W. Von Goethe]
Though man has language as a potent means of expression and he
has intellect also to argue his case and to convince others, yet man
ultimately uses the ways of the animals who do not have language
and reason to seek justice. [Raja Yogi]
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do have language.
That may be the measure of our lives. [Toni Morrison]
When we study human language, we approach what some might call
‘human essence’, the distinctive qualities of mind that are, so far as we
know, unique to man. [Noam Chomsky]

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 Your language is your identity. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

LAUGHTER
A good laugh is sunshine in a house. [W. M. Thackeray]
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because
of their gravity. [G. K. Chesterton]
God is a comedian, playing to an audience who is too afraid to laugh.
[Voltaire]
I have always thought that a big laugh is a really laud noise from the
soul saying, “Is it not the truth”? [Quincy Jones]
Laugh and the world ignore you. Crying does not help either. [ Adolph
Hitler]
Laughter creates a deep silence and in that silence, problems and
worries dissolve. [Swami Sukhananda]
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the
best ending of one. [Oscar Wilde]
Laughter is the best medicine. [Anonymous]
Laughter is the shortest distance between any two people. [ Victor
Borge]
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it
ceases to be serious when people laugh. [Bernard Shaw]
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
[Goethe]
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [N.
S. Chamfort]
There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.
[Neils Bohr]
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or hell we shall no longer
be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper. [ Jules Renard]
What soap is to the body; laughter is to the soul. [ Yiddish Proverb]
When the baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a
thousand pieces and they all went skipping about and that was the
beginning of fairies. [James M Barrie]
When laughter originates in the bed of pain it bursts into tears.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

LAW
Deliberate well and lean not to either side; be impartial and consult
with the men of law; that is the way to administer justice.
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 Law and order is like patriotism. Anyone who comes on strong about
patriotism has got something to hide, it never fails. They always turn
out to be a crook or a traitor or something. [ Bill Mauldin]
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public
opinion. [Wendell Philips]
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
[Chinese Proverb]
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. [Montesquieu]
The laws not enforced cease to be laws and the rights not defended
may wither away. [Thomas Moriarty]
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one
and to give every man his due. [Justinian I]
The trouble with laws these days is that criminals know their rights
better than their wrongs. [Anonymous]
There are two kinds of lawyers, those who know the law and those
who know the judge. [Anonymous]
Working without regard to law brings nothing but failure. Working
with law enables us to do what seemed at first impossible. [ Ralph T.
Flewelling]

LEADERSHIP
A leader is a dealer in hope. [Napoleon Bonaparte]
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just
by example. [Joe Dimaggio]
Do not wait for the leaders. Do it alone, person to person. [ Mother
Teresa]
Essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is
offering oneself one’s spirit. [Lee Bolman]
I must follow my people. Am I not their leader? [ Benjamin Disraeli]
If you do not have all the qualities of God, you should not accept
leadership. [Pesikta Rabbati]
It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common
aim of working in unison towards an objective. Aspiration and desire
are not enough; the leadership must understand this well. [ Idris Shah]
Leaders are not made, they are born. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Leaders must encourage their organisations to dance to forms of
music yet to be heard. [Warren G. Bennis]
Leadership and learning are two inseparable things. [ John F.
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 Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.
[Peter F. Drucker]
Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.
[Stephen R. Covey]
Managers are people who do things right, leaders are people who do
the right thing. [Warren Bennis]
No leader should be chosen by his birth instead of his merit. [ Jigme S.
Wangchuck]
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999
follow women. [Groucho Max]
The art of leadership is saying “no”, not saying “yes”. It is very easy to
say “yes”. [Tony Blair]
The brave and wise man, who intends to overcome his foes, must first
of all strive to subdue the internal enemies of his own heart and mind,
and the members of his own body. [Yoga Vasistha]
The question, “who ought to be boss?” is like asking “who ought to be
the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
[Henry Ford]
You can only lead others where you yourself are prepared to go.
[Lachlan Mclean]

LEARNING
Change is the end result of true learning. [Leo Buscaglia]
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn
how to do it. [Pablo Picasso]
Learning is a costly affair. It forces you to unlearn many things.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Learning is life-long process. The day I stop learning, I die a mental
death. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Learning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere. [Chinese
Proverb]
The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. [ Alvin
Toffler]

LESSION
Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its
own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
[Malcolm X]

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 Your learning is useless to you till you have lost your text books, burnt
your lecture notes and forgotten the minutes which you have learnt
by heart for the examination. [Alfred North Whitehead]

LIBERTY
Give me liberty or give me death. [Patrick Henry]
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no
constitution, no law, no court can save it. [Justice Learned Hand]
One’s liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbour.
[Frederick Farrar]

LIE
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies. [ Tzu Tao]
If a lie runs for twenty years, it takes truth one day to catch up with it.
[Yoruba Proverb]
Lying lips are an abomination to the lord. [Spanish Proverb]
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. [ Ann
Landers]

LIFE
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing. [G. B. Shaw]
And what is life? A weary pilgrimage whose glory in one day fills the
stage with childhood, manhood and decrepit age. [ Francis Quarles]
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living. Your belief will
help create that fact. [William James]
Do not permit the events of your daily life to blind you, but never
withdraw yourself from them. [Huang Po]
Do not run through life so fast that you forget where you have been
and where you are going. [Socrates]
Every man dies – not every man really lives. [William Ross]
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness
and growth occurs while you are climbing it. [ Thomas Alva Edison]
Have a life. Remember everything is temporary, success is – and so is
failure. Enjoy the moment. [Kareena Kapoor]
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the
earth my feet know perfectly and my blood is part of the sea. [ D. H.
Lawrence]
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The
problem is that I cannot find anybody who can tell me what they
want. [Mark Twain]

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In the inner world no effort is needed. Once you start slipping inwards,
you find everything is happening as it should. Life is perfect. When
there is no way to improve upon it, the celebration starts. [ Osho]
In the long run we shape our lives as we shape ourselves. The process
never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our
own responsibilities. [Eleanor Roosevelt]
It is not that I cannot live without you; it is that I do not even want to
try. [Julia Roberts]
It is not, what life takes away from you, that counts. It is what you
make of what is left with you. [Hubert Humphrey]
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered
by values. [Jawaharlal Nehru]
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to
have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear that it will be lived
all the better if it has no meaning. [Albert Camus]
Life is a festival only to the wise. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Life is a gamble at terrible odds – if it was a bet, you would not take
it. [Tom Stoppard]
Life is a mirror. You get the best results when you smile at it.
[Anonymous]
Life is a sexually transmitted disease. [Anonymous]
Life is an adventure: get into it. Life is a tragedy: grow from it. Life is a
struggle: make it sacred. Life is a song: sing it. Life is a promise: meet
it. Life is a game: play it. Life is a duty: fulfil it. Life is a challenge: face
it. Life is a dream: realize it. Life is a beauty: feel it. Life is bliss:
experience it. [Anonymous]
Life is an art. The whole life of man is self-expression. The individual is
an expression of God. We suffer if we do not express ourselves. [ Perfect
Liberty Kyodan]
Life is an unanswered question. Let us believe in dignity and
importance of the question. [Tennessee Williams]
Life is but a tale told by an idiot full of sound and furry signifying
nothing. [William Shakespeare]
Life is formed from the inside out. What I am inside determines how I
am outside. [William Hornaday]
Life is good. You can make it better. [Richard Wisner]
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are getting.
[Adolph Hitler]
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism; the way you play it is free will. [ Jawaharlal Nehru]

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Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile, it
returns the greeting. [Anonymous]
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster
it goes. [Anonymous]
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way.
[Nancy Sims]
Life is not esoteric at all. It is written on each leaf of each tree, on each
pebble on the seashore; it is contained in each ray of the sun –
whatever you come across is life in all its beauty. [ Osho]
Life is perhaps the best regarded as a bad dream between two
awakenings. [Eugene O’Neill]
Life is real! Life is earnest! The grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, to
dust return, was not spoken of the soul. [H. W. Longfellow]
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. [John W. Gardner]
Life is the only thing worth living for. [Zen]
Life is tough, but I am tougher. [Anonymous]
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
[Leo F. Buscaglia]
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
[John Lennon]
Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realises that it is just
a game. [Nerijus Stasiulis]
Live life in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of the Mount
Vesuvius. [Frederick Nietzsche]
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. [ Carol Burnett]
Our life is love and peace and tenderness; and bearing one with
another and forgiving one another and not laying accusations one
against the another. [Isaac Penington]
Slow down and enjoy life. It is not only the scenery you miss by going
too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
[Eddie Cantor]
Take life as it comes and surge ahead. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The art of living is more like the art of wrestling than the art of
dancing. [Marcus Aurelius]
The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of the opposites.
[Jalaluddin Rumi]
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. [ Frank Lloyd
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The most wonderful thing we know about in the universe is life, and it
is the most complicated emergent phenomena we know of. [ Air
Martin Rees]
The purpose of life is to live it, to reach out eagerly without fear for
newer and richer experiences. [Eleanor Roosevelt]
The reason you are born was to leave your own indelible mark on the
world. [From FISH]
The tragedy of a life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
[Abraham Lincoln]
The true meaning of living is outliving, it is ever growing out of itself.
[Rabindranth Tagore]
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as if everything is. [Albert Einstein]
Those small daily happenings make a life so spectacular.
[Anonymous]
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and
when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good
and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. [ William
Saroyan]
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
[Winston Churchill]
We must be willing to let go the life we have planned so as to have
the life that is waiting for us. [E. M. Foster]
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
[George Eliot]
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. [ Dalai Lama]
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to
ask, “Compared to what?” [Sydney Harris]
When you are into the light, everything will follow you. But when you
enter the dark, even your own shadow will not follow you. That is life.
[Adolph Hitler]
When you live on a round planet, there is no choosing side. [Paul
McCartney]
Whenever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not
measured by length, but by use: some men have lived long and lived
little: attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the
number of years, for you to have lived enough. [ Montaigne]
Would that life were like the shadow cast on a wall by a tree? But
actually it is like the shadow of a bird in flight. [ The Talmud]
You cannot go around being what everyone expects you to be. Never
live your life through other people’s rules. Live happily and have inner
peace. [Swami Vivekananda]

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 Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it
take with you your all. [Kahlil Gibran]

LIGHT
If there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person, harmony in
the house, order in the nations, and peace in the world. [ Chinese
Proverb]
You have to keep the fire burning in you. Burn yourself to make the
world illuminated. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

LIGHTNING
Thunder is good; thunder is impressive. But it is lightning that does the
work. [Mark Twain]

LIMITATION
Argue for limitations and sure enough they are yours. [ Richard Bach]
Have a reality check on yourself. It is important to know where to
draw the line, when to cut off. [Kareena Kapoor]
First know your limits; then ignore it. [John Masson]
The true knowledge of your limitations is the pillar of your strength.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

LOGIC
Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.
[Anonymous]

LONGING
Longing carries an abundantly human overtone subsumed under a
sense of desire. [Ram Narayan Panda]

LOSS
A loser complains against others and about everything. [ Anonymous]
A loser counts his days. [Anonymous]
A loser does not do anything of his own. He does things what are
thrust upon him. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
A loser expects failure. [Anonymous]
A loser is afraid of winning. [Anonymous]
A loser is always busy doing nothing. [Anonymous]
A loser translates reality into life. [Anonymous]

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 A loser wastes time in various pretexts. [Anonymous]
For everything you miss, you gain something else, and for everything
you gain, you lose something else. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the
time. [Amy Van Dyken]
The most important lesson I have learned from sports is how to be not
only a gracious winner; but a good loser as well. [ Amy Van Dyken]
The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the
moment. [Marcus Aurelius]
Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. You learn more from
one loss than you do from a million wins. [ Amy Van Dyken]

LOVE
A beautiful woman is one who loves me. [Sloan Wilson]
A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you
do not love. [Anonymous]
A life without love is a ship without radar. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
A love song is just a caress set to music. [Sigmund Freud]
A simple “I love you” means more than money. [ Frank Sinatra]
All I know about love is that love is all there is. [Emily Dickinson]
All worldly love is false. [Guru Tegh Bahadur]
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of
love. [Hamilton Wight Mabi]
Do not fall in love. It will stick to your face. [ Woody Allen]
Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find.
[Charlie Chaplin]
Do not threaten me with love. Let us just go walking in the rain. [ Billie
Holiday]
Each one of us as human beings has been given a golden box filled
with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends
and God. Nothing can be more precious and nothing is more taken
for granted than is unconditional love. [Anonymous]
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile. [ David
Myers]
How on earth you go to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so
important a biological phenomenon as first love. [ Albert Einstein]
However much I might try to expound or explain love, when I come to
love, I am ashamed to my explanations. Love alone can explain the
mysteries of love. [Jalaluddin Rumi]

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I do not want to live – I want to love first and live incidentally. [Zelda
Fitzgerald]
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must
be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. [David Bissonette]
If love is blind then why is lingerie so popular? [Mark Twain]
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things
you lack. If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not
enough. [Ann Landers]
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet
remain two. [Erich Fromm]
In love, one and one are one. [Jean Paul Sartre]
It does not matter who you love or how you love, but that you love.
[Michael Douglas]
It is love, not money that makes you rich. [Anonymous]
Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness. [Anonymous]
Life is a game we play. Love is the reason we play it. [ Demi Moore]
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.
They bless the one who receives them and they bless you, the giver.
[Barbara De Angelis]
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul,
delight the heart and they both take practice. [Nora Roberts]
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love
and then you dwell in God; hate nothing but the evil that stirs in your
own heart. [William Law]
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an
illusion. [Mae West]
Love creates ‘us’ without destroying ‘me’. [Anonymous]
Love does not make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile. [Franklin P. Jones]
Love has it own time, its own season and its own reasons for coming
and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying.
[Kent Nerburn]
Love has no name or form. Love is abstract; yet it is concrete. This is
the mystery of love. [Sri Ravishankar]
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it is what
you are expected to give – which is everything. [Anonymous]
Love helps us widen our knowledge and understanding of life and the
world around us. [Sri Ravishankar]
Love is a decision, not an emotion, that if made from the heart will
outlast anything. [Raul Juarez]

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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every
hand. [Mother Teresa]
Love is a moment that lasts forever. [Julie Whitney]
Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. [ Goethe]
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. [ Robert Frost]
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the
recognition. [Alexander Smith]
Love is feeling, marriage is a contract and relationships are works.
[Lori Gordon]
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I can tell you a thousand
things that it is not; but not one that it is. [Duke of Ellington]
Love is life. Everything that I understand I understand only because I
love. [Keiichi Morisata]
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the
rules; then you must forget the rules and play by heart. [ Anonymous]
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it and it darts away. [Dorothy Parker]
Love is not about becoming somebody else’s perfect person. It is about
finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.
[Anonymous]
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is
willing to see less. [Julius Gordon]
Love is not blind, it just sees what matters it. [William Curry]
Love is not finding someone to live with; it is finding someone you
cannot live without. [Rafael Ortiz]
Love is not length of life, but depth of life. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not boast, it is not proud, it is not
rude, it is not self-seeking, and it is not easily angered. It keeps no
record of wrongs. [The Bible]
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. [ Ambrose Bierce]
Love is too strong a word to say too early, but it has too beautiful a
meaning to say it too late. [Kurt S. Cornish]
Love is true when it comes from the heart, not from the mouth.
[Aristotle]
Love me for a second, and I will make that second last a lifetime.
[Anonymous]
Love must be the foundation, the cornerstone – but not the complete
structure. It is much too pliable and too yielding. [ Bette Davis]
Love not only gives. It also forgives. [Spanish Proverb]

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or
woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been
married a quarter of a century. [Mark Twain]
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know
we cannot live within. [James Baldwin]
Love, not time, heals all wounds. [Anonymous]
Lover does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always
protects, always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres. Love
never fails. [The Bible]
Never pretend to love, which you do not actually feel, for love is not
ours to command. [Alan Watts]
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. So we
are saved by love. [Reinhold Niebuhr]
Only time is capable to understand how great love is. [Anonymous]
Take away love and our earth is just a tomb. [ Robert Browning]
The beginning of love is to let those we love be themselves and not
twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only reflection of
ourselves in them. [Thomas Merton]
The best way to lose love is to hold it too tight and the best way to
keep it is to give it wings. [Audrey Hepburn]
The love in your heart is not put there to stay. Love is not love until
you give it away. [Anonymous]
The tragedy of love is indifference. [Somerset Maugham ]
The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost. [ Sophocles]
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some
reason in madness. [Friedrich Nietzsche]
There is no remedy for love but to love more. [Henry David Thoreau]
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love;
there is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. [ Wayne Dyer]
There is nothing more important in life than love. [ Barbara Streisand]
To be in love is actually to be in a state of perpetual anaesthesia. [ H.
L. Mencken]
To live in this world you must be able to love what is mortal; to hold it
against your bones knowing your life depends on it; and when the
time comes, to let go. [Mary Oliver]
To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. [ David
Viscott]
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in others.
[Swetchine]

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 True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear
the bells get your ears checked. [Erich Segal]
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full
acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood. [ Karen Casey]
Under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated
and loved. [Anonymous]
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and it is the
only end. [Benjamin Disraeli]
We are never so unhappy as when we lose love. [Sigmund Freud]
We do not love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of
their defects as well as their qualities. [Jacques Maritian]
What a grand thing to be a lover! What a grander thing still, to love!
[Victor Hugo]
When in love, sometimes it is worse to win a fight than to lose it. [ Billie
Holiday]
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. [John
Ruskin]
When we are hungry, love will keep us alive. [The Eagles]
When we cannot have what we love we must love what we have.
[Roger de Bussy]
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. [ Paulo
Coelho]
When you are in love, it shows. [Anonymous]
Where there is love there is life. [Mahatma Gandhi]
While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things
easy. [Evan H. Hopkins]
Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to get lost
again. [Wayne Dyer]
You cannot put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
[Melanie Clark]

LUCK
If luck is the root of success, then perseverance becomes a dead word.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
It is better to be industrious than to be lucky. At least, we get
satisfaction for our success. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing. [ Albert
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MADNESS
Madness is to think of too many things is succession too fast or of one
thing too exclusively. [Voltaire]
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless
there are three other people. [Orson Welles]
Nobody realizes that some people expand a tremendous amount of
energy mere to be normal. [Albert Camus]
Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast. [Lewis Carroll]
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
[Oscar Wilde]

MAN
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself will never become a butterfly.
[Andre Gide]
A man is not made by his birth but by his deeds. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
A man is what he thinks about all day long. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Blessed is human birth. Even the dwellers in heaven desire this birth for
true wisdom and pure love may be attained only by man.
[Bhagabad Gita]
Every man and woman should work seriously and pass life in the
noblest of pastimes. [Plato]
Great men are they who see that spiritual force is stronger than
material force, that thoughts rule the world. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them
round to dinner. [Douglas Adams]
If the atom can have so much energy, what to say about man? What
to say about this small flame of consciousness in man? If some day this
small flame bursts forth, it is bound to become an infinite source of
energy and light. [Osho]
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been
searching for evidence which could support this. [Bertrand Russell]
Let me tell you that he on whom God has conferred the knowledge of
this mystery of transmutation esteems mere money and earthly riches
as lightly as the dirt of streets. His heart and all his desires are bent
upon seeing and enjoying the heavenly reality of which all these things
are but a figure. [Sophic Hydrolith]
Let us bury caste and creed. We have to bear each other. We are not
here for eternal stay. Let there be laughter in our meeting, let our
hearts be one. [Dhaniram Chatrik]

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 Man is a rational animal with high degree of eccentricity. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Man is made to be the playing of God and this is the best of him.
[Plato]
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. [ Albert Camus]
Man must fully recognise the urgency of maintaining the stability and
quality of nature and of conserving natural resources. [UN World
Charter]
Mankind is a part of nature and life depends on the uninterrupted
functioning of natural systems which ensure supply of energy and
nutrients. [UN World Charter]
Men have become the tools of their tools. [Henry David Thoreau]
Ornaments cannot be made of pure gold. Some alloy must be mixed
with it. A man totally devoid of Maya will not survive more than 21
days. So long as the man has a body, he must have some Maya,
however small it may be. [Sri Ramakrishna]
The beloved man lives in each one of us. [Bulhe Shah]
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that
opens in return. [Maria Edgeworth]
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung]
The truth is that men are tired of their liberty. [ Benito Mussolini]
The whole mankind has become so much one family that we cannot
insure our own prosperity except by insuring that everyone else.
[Bertrand Russell]
There is no such thing as a self-made man. We are made up of
thousands of others. [George Adams]
We are human beings, neither Hindus nor Mussalmans. We are bodies
and souls of the Supreme Being. Call Him Allah or call Him Ram.
[Guru Nanak]
We ought to live sacrificing and singing and dancing and then a man
will be able to propitiate the Gods. [Plato]
Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it cannot come true
unless man co-operates. [Stella Terrill Mann]
You are always a valuable and worthwhile human being if you
decide to believe so. [Wayne Dyer]

MARKET
Marketism is the opium of the classes. [Anonymous]
The world is getting smaller but the market is becoming larger. [ M. S.
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 When the world is a super market, we are nothing but saleable
commodities. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

MARRIAGE
A good marriage is like a casserole, those responsible for it only know
what goes in it. [Anonymous]
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the
individuals and in the way they express their love. [ Pearl S. Buck]
A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is
when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. [ Dave
Meurer]
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he is finished.
[Zsa Zsa Gabor]
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times and always
with the same person. [Mignon McLaughlin]
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn
the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest — never
vicious or cruel. It is healthy and constructive and brings to a marriage
the principle of equal partnership. [Ann Landers]
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she
gets the more interested he is in her. [Agatha Christie]
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they did
not, they would be married too. [H. L. Mencken]
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should
be happier than others. [Oscar Wilde]
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. [ Oscar
Wilde]
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny
threads which sew people together through the years. That is what
makes a marriage last — more than passion or even sex. [Simone
Signoret]
Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. [Scottish
Proverb]
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in
Europe. [Jackie Mason]
Every man should get married some time; after all happiness is not
the only thing in life. [Anonymous]
I do not worry about terrorism. I have been married for two years.
[Sam Kinison]
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage
and a career. [Gloria Steinem]

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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. [ Groucho
Marx]
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover spam.
[Johnny Carson]
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. [ Anton Chekhov]
In marriage be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before
beauty, mind before body; then you can have a wife, a friend, a
companion, and a second self. [William Penn]
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic,
a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a
reformer. [H. Norman Wright]
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay and you never get
anything back. [Al Bundy]
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half-shut afterwards.
[Benjamin Franklin]
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion
but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is
infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. [ W.
H. Auden]
Love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener. [Anonymous]
Marriage a kind of friendship recognised by the police and law.
[Anonymous]
Marriage is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and
suffering. [Anonymous]
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and
the remaining chapters are written in prose. [Beverly Nichols]
Marriage is a great institution, but I am not ready for an institution
yet. [Mae West]
Marriage is a not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate
dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of
balance and your choice of partner. [Amy Bloom]
Marriage is a relationship. When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you are sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
[Joseph Campbell]
Marriage is an investment that pays big dividends if you manage to
keep up the interest. [Lee Daniel Quinn]
Marriage is give and take. You will better give it to her or she will take
it anyway. [Joey Adams]
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, and
you lose interest. [Irwin Corey]

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Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring and then you
wake up. [Evelyn Hendrickson]
Marriage is painful procedure of finding out what kind of a man your
wife actually prefers. [Anonymous]
Marriage is that relationship between man and woman, in which
independence is equal, dependence mutual, and obligation is
reciprocal. [L. K. Anspacher]
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife
would have preferred. [Anonymous]
Marriage may often be a stormy lake but celibacy is almost always a
muddy horse-pond. [Thomas Peacock]
Marriage, families and relationships are more a process of learning in
dance rather than finding the right dancer. [Paul Pearsall]
Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later;
for another thing, they die earlier. [H. L. Mencken]
My advice to you is: get married: if you find a good wife, you will be
happy; if not, you will become a philosopher. [ Socrates]
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to
marry me. [Winston Churchill]
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is
not saying. [Woody Allen]
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre
one consists of leaving about three or four things unsaid. [ Harlan
Miller]
Once it is established that we are a team, I can demand of you and
expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and
the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the delusion of fusion. [ Carl
Whitaker]
Some pray to marry the man they love. My prayer will somewhat
vary; I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
[Rose Stokes]
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the
full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who
do not run away from life. [Paul Tournier]
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds — they mature
slowly. [Peter De Vries]
The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process. It
is an achievement. [David Mace]
The kind of marriage you make depends upon the kind of person you
are. If you are a happy, well-adjusted person, the chances are your
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 about your lot in life, you will have to change before you can expect
to live happily ever after. [Evelyn Duvall]
The middle years of marriage are the most crucial. In the early years,
spouses want each other; and in late years, they need each other.
[Rebeca Tilly]
The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
[Amy Grant]
The wedding rings look like miniature handcuffs. [ Bad Teddy]
There is a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic
banking. It is called marriage. [James Holt McGavran]
When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why. When a
ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why. [ Anonymous]
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence.
When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of
commitment. [Warren Farrell]
When you see what some girls marry for, you realize how they must
hate to work for a living. [Helen Rowland]
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single
and make thousand miserable? [Carrie Snow]
You do not need to be on the same wavelength to succeed in
marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other’s waves. [ Toni
Sciarra Poynter]
Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, ‘you are only interested in
one thing’, and you cannot remember what it is. [ Milton Berle]

MATURITY
Be the person you are. Never try to become another, and then you
will become matured. [Osho]
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you have had
and what you have learned from them and less to do with how many
birthdays you have celebrated. [Anonymous]
Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever
the cost. Risking all to be oneself — that is what maturity is all about.
[Osho]

MEASURE
Do no guess when you can calculate, and do not calculate when you
can measure. [Archimedes]

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MEDITATION
From daily doses of divine introspection and meditation, eight main
positive powers emerge and flourish in the self. These are powers of
tolerance, adaptability, discernment, decision making, courage,
cooperation, patience and humility, which are essential to realise and
restore holistic health, harmony and happiness in life and society. [B.
K. Sushant]
Meditate and realise this world is filled with the presence of God.
[Shvetashvara Upanisad]
Meditate on your God-gifted strengths and learn to encourage
yourself, for much of the time nobody else will. [ Anonymous]
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves you ignorant.
[Gautama Buddha]
Meditation is a movement in and out of the unknown. It is that
energy which out thought matter cannot touch. [Jiddu Krishnamurti]
Meditation is a way to knowing and beholding the eternal,
indestructible, essential centre of our inner being. [Rudolf Steiner]
Meditation is not the means to an end. It is both the means and the
end. [Jiddu Krishnamurti]
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to
ourselves and see what is going on. [Thich Nhat Hanh]
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
[Jeremy Taylor]
Meditation is to make everything – coughing, waving arms,
swallowing, motion, stillness, words, action, gain and loss – into one.
[Hakuin]
Proficiency in meditation amounts to fixity in the real. [ Sri Ramana
Maharshi]
Silence is the garden of meditation. [Maxims of Ali]
Whenever a man attains greatness on this earth he has his reward
according to his meditation. [Upanisada]

MEETING
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [ Carl Jung]

MEMORY
Although it is difficult today to see beyond the sorrow. But looking
back into your memory helps to comfort your tomorrow
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 If you always memorize your past your never march into your future.
[Niladri Sekhar dash]
One of the reasons why people hold on to the memories so tight is
because memories are the only things that do not change when
everyone else does. [Anonymous]
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
[Confucius]
We are our memories more than we are the sum total of our
experiences. [Seligmann]
We meet to create memories we part to preserve them. [ Anonymous]

MIND
A mind too active is no mind at all. [Theodore Roethke]
Control your mind to make your soul free. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Do not let your mind go wandering. It is too small to go out by itself.
[Woody Allen]
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is
perfect, but I miss my mind! [Anonymous]
Minds, like parachutes, function best when they are open.
[Anonymous]
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who
have not and do not. [Bernard Shaw]
Survival is solely a mind-game. If you mind to win, you will hardly
lose. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The deluded mind attaches false value to the objects of the world.
[Swami Venkatesananda]
The mind has exactly the same power as hands; not merely to grasp
the world, but to change it. [Colin Wilson]
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of a hell or
a hell of a heaven. [John Milton]
Whatever we see out there in the world is but a reflection of what is in
there within our mind, [Marie T. Russell]
Whoever controls media controls minds. [Jim Morrison]
You think that hating is bad. What is bad is a hating mind itself. [ Bon
Kai]

MIRACLE
If you think your life will take shape through the miracles rather than
through your efforts, you are doomed. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Where is the greatest love there are always miracles. [ Willa Cather]

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MISERY
Nobody really cares if you are miserable, so you might as well be
happy. [Cynthia Nelms]

MISTAKE
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill
your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in
the future. [Swami Sivananda]
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to
make mistakes. [Mahatma Gandhi]
If I never make mistake I will never learn. Learning is a long meander
full of mistakes. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Learn from other’s mistakes. Life is not long enough to make them all
yourself. [Anonymous]
My life takes shape from every mistake I make. [ Yuvraj Singh]
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. [Napoleon
Bonaparte]
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
[Bishop WC Magee]
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country
are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. [ George Burns]

MODESTY
Modesty creates success. [I Ching]
Modesty is not to be confused with weak good nature that lets things
take their own course. When a man holds a responsible position, he
must at times resort to energetic measures. [I Ching]
When modesty crosses the level of hypocrisy it becomes unbearable.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

MOMENT
All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and
surrendering. All the moments are blessings, only you have to be
capable of seeing these. All the moments are benedictions. If you
accept with deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong. [ Osho]
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is
endlessly bountiful. [Mahatma Gandhi]
He who seizes the right moment is the right man. [Goethe]

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MONARCH
My crown is called contentment – a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
[William Shakespeare]
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his
own arse. [Benjamin Franklin]

MONEY
A bank book makes good reading – better than some novels. [Harry
Lauder]
For I do not care too much for money. For money cannot buy me
love. [John Lennon]
I am tired of love; I am still more tired of rhyme. But money gives me
pleasure all the time. [Hilaire Belloc]
I would like to live like a poor man but with plenty of money. [Pablo
Picasso]
If we do not control our money, it will control us. [ Adolph Hitler]
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the
people he gave it to. [Dorothy Parker]
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be
happy without money. [Albert Camus]
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it is
good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you have
not lost the things that money cannot buy. [George H Lorimer]
Money always matters. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Money and money and money. It makes the world go round.
[Cabaret lyrics]
Money can buy you a house but not a home; it can buy you a clock
but not time; it can buy you a position but not respect; it can buy you
a bed but not sleep; it can buy you a book but not knowledge; it can
buy you medicine but not health; it can buy you a heart transplant
but not true love; it can buy you blood but not life. [ Anonymous]
Money cannot buy back all your youth when you are old, a friend
when you are lonely or peace to your soul. [ Jeff Buckley]
Money could not buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
[Spike Milligan]
Money does not buy class. [Anonymous]
Money is a very good servant but a very bad master. [ Anonymous]
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. [ Woody
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 Money is neither my God, nor my devil. It is a form of energy that
tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it is greedy or
loving. [Dan Millman]
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings
you food but not appetite; medicine but not health; acquaintance
but not friends; servants but not loyalty; days of joy but not peace or
happiness. [Henrik Ibsen]
No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he would
only had good intentions. He had money as well. [ Margaret Thatcher]
Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself. [ Italian
Proverb]
Well, fancy giving money to the government! Might as well have put it
down the drain. [A. P. Herbert]
When you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the
power, then you get the women. [Al Pacino]
Whoever says money cannot buy happiness simply does not know
where to go shopping. [Bo Derek]

MOTHER
A mother’s heart is a child’s schoolroom. [H. W. Beecher]
A mother’s love determines how we love ourselves and others. There is
no sky we will ever see nor lit by that first love. Stripped of love, the
universe would drive us mad with pain; but we are born into a world
that greets our cries with joy. [Verse from Internet]
All I am I owe to my mother. [George Washington]
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. That is his. [Oscar Wilde]
As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, loves and protects her
child, so let a man cultivate love without measure toward the whole
world. [Gautama Buddha]
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. [ Jewish
Proverb]
Honour thy father and mother: that thy days may be long upon the
land which the Lord thy God give thee. [The Holy Bible]
I believe in love at first sight. Because I loved my mother ever since I
opened my eyes. [Anonymous]
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life. [George Abraham Lincoln]
If evolution really works how come mothers only have two hands?
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 It is not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
[Anonymous]
M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she is
growing old, T is for the tears she shed to save me, H is for the heart of
purest gold, E is for the eyes, with love-light shining, R means right and
right she will always be. Put then together they spell ‘mother’ – a
word that means the world to me. [Howard Johnson]
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children. [ William
M. Thackeray]
My mother is a special gift God has given to me. [ Melanie Reid]
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. [ Bern Williams]
When it comes to love, mom is the word. [Anonymous]
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood? [ Isadora
Duncan]

MOTIVATION
Motivation determines what you do. [Lou Holtz]
Self-motivation is the best motivation. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The most important thing about motivation is the goal setting. You
should always have a definite goal. [Francie L. Smith]
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is to write books
about it. [Peter F. Drucker]
We talk on principle, but act on motivation. [Walter Savage Lander]
You do not have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to
complete. You can be just an ordinary man, sufficiently motivated to
reach challenging goals. [Edmund Hillary]

MURDER
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one
another, but similar that breeds their kind. [Bernard Shaw]
Murder is born out of love and love attains the greatest intensity in
murder. [Octave Mirbeau]

MUSIC
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible
is music. [Aldous Huxley]
The world is run by those who never listen to music anyway. [Bob
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MYSTERY
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to
understand. [Neil Armstrong]
One of life’s mysteries is how a two-pound box of candy can make a
person gain five pounds. [Anonymous]

NAME
Always remember a person’s name. A person’s name is to that person
the sweetest and the most important sound in any language.
[Anonymous]
Goodwill, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one.
[Francis Jeffrey]
Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. [Samuli Paronem ]
Names are an important key to what a society values.
Anthropologists recognise naming as one of the methods for imposing
order on perception. [David Slawson]
The name we give to something shapes our attitude to it. [ Katherine
Patterson]
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet. [William Shakespeare]
When you ask, ‘What is in a name?’ I answer, ‘Just about everything
you do’. [Morris Mandel]
Your name is what you curve. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

NATION
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small
nations like prostitutes. [Stanley Kubrick]

NATURE
All things are bright and beautiful, all creatures are great and small,
all things are wise and wonderful. The God has made them all. [Cecil
H. Alexander]
Finding your original nature is not difficult. You are just being
identified with wrong things. De-identify yourself with that. Who you
are, is definitely within you. [Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev]
I am plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not
preserve my self. [Quixote]
I can see and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark,
but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-
made world. [Helen Keller]

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 In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only
consequences. [Robert B. Ingersoll]
Nature is my God. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and
the forests are my cathedrals. [Mikhail Gorbachev]
Nature is the living thing, visible garment of God. [J. W. Goethe]
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water
and vegetation disregards his own existence. [Jain Cosmology]
The cosmic forces do not work up-word from below but downward
from above. [S. Hermes]
The earth is the lord’s and the fullness there of, the world and those
dwell therein. [Judaism]
This earth is a garden, the lord is gardener; christening all, none
neglected. [Adi Granth]
We cannot impose our will on nature unless we first ascertain what her
will is. [Ralph T. Flewelling]
When we respect the environment, the nature is good to us. Whenever
our hearts are good, the sky will be good to us. [ Maha Ghosananda]
The trees are like our mother and father; they feed us, nourish us, and
provide us with everything: fruit, leaves, branches and trunk. They
give us food and satisfy many of our needs. So we spread the truth of
protecting ourselves and protecting our environment. [ Maha
Ghosananda]
Your body is made of all the elements of the world. Nature supplied
all the ingredients that make your body, which means that the
universe made you by donating itself. If nature demanded that you
refund everything that nature loaned you, would there be anything
left of you? [Sun Myung Moon]
You can feel that the universe gave you birth and made you, so
nature is your first parent. Do you feel good that you are a microcosm
of the universe? [Sun Myung Moon]

NECESSITY
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of the tyrants; it is the creed of the slaves. [William Pitt]
Necessity knows no laws. [Anonymous]

NEGATIVITY
Negative feelings such as violence are damaging to life, whether we
act upon them ourselves or cause or condone them in others.
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 Negative thoughts are born of greed, anger or delusion and may be
slight, moderate or intense. Their fruit is endless ignorance and
suffering. To remember this is to cultivate the opposite. [ Patanjali]
Negativity in attitude not only destroys me but also all those who
cling to me. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

NEGOTIATION
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
[John F. Kennedy]
Negotiation is a good art. If you can exercise it properly you can win
many adamant hearts. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

NEIGHBOUR
Good fences make good neighbours. [Robert Frost]
Love thy neighbour as thou love thyself. [The Bible]
Man cannot worship God and at the same time despise his fellow-
beings. These are simply irreconcilable. [Mahatma Gandhi]
No one of you is a believer until he loves his brother what he loves for
himself. [Hadith of Nawawi]
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbour’s noisy party than
being there. [Franklin P. Jones]
Sometimes our neighbours become our mirror through which we like
to see ourselves. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns
those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore,
brothers. [Martin Luther King]
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the
designs of our neighbours. [Sun Tzu]
When your neighbour’s wall is on fire, it becomes your business.
[Horace]
You should love your neighbour as you love yourself. [ Leviticus]

NON-VIOLENCE
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-
violence is the means of realising him. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is
an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual
effort. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Non-violence is the greatest force at disposal of mankind. It is mightier
than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of
man. [Mahatma Gandhi]

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NOVEL
A novel that does not discover any hitherto unknown segment of
existence which is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
[Milan Kundera]
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating
themselves as fiercely as if they had never told before. [ Willa Cather]

NOVELTY
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we
do not know. [Ambrose Bierce]

OLD AGE
Do not complain about growing old – many, many people do not
have that privilege. [Earl Warren]
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for
none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have
used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough,
but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such
people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in
giving them his blessings, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet
calendar of a well-spent life. [Charles Dickens]
Life’s dusk brings its lamp with it. [Joseph Joubert]
No man is ever old enough to know better. [ Holbrook Jackson]
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old
by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. [Samuel Ullman]
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge.
The higher you get the more tired and breathless you become – but
your views become more extensive. [Ingrid Bergman]

OPINION
People seem not so see that their opinions about the world is also a
confession of their own characters. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Rights and wrongs are convertible terms. They depend upon popular
opinion. [William L. Garrison]

OPPORTUNITY
Do not wait for extraordinary opportunities to happen to you. Seize
common occasions and make them great if you can. [ Orison S.
Marden]
God allows us an opportunity to learn from our mistakes and move
forward. [Jeffrey R. Palmer]

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 God cannot help those who do not seize opportunities. [ Chinese
Proverb]
I asked favour and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I
wanted. I got everything I needed. [Anonymous]
If you are weak, wait for opportunities; if you are strong, make them.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
[Anonymous]
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people do
not recognise them. [Ann Landers]
Opportunity is missed by of the most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like hard works. [Thomas Alva Edison]
Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the
middle of difficulty lies the opportunity. [Albert Einstein]
Small opportunities are often, in disguise, the beginning of great
enterprises. [Demosthenes]
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living you love; there is
only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. [ Wayne Dyer]
We are all faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as
impossible situations. [Charles Swindoll]
When one door closes another opens. [Helen Keller]
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us. [A. Graham Bell]

OPTIMISIM
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I cannot make it
through one door, I will go through another door or I will make a
door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present is.
[Rabindranath Tagore]
I still believe that after every storm, eventually a rainbow appears.
[Mariah Carey]
If winter comes can spring be far behind? [P.B. Shelley]
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will
prevent you from seeing the glittering stars. [Rabindranath Tagore]
No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of
things. [Anonymous]
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and of true progress. [Nicholas Murray Butler]
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are
miserable. [Voltaire]

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 The predominant quality of successful people is optimism. Your level
of optimism is the best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy and
long-lived you will be. [Brian Tracy]

ORIGINALITY
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that
nobody had said it before him. [Mark Twain]
Give references? Why should you? Either your readers know where
you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless or they do
not know and you humiliate them. [Anatole France]
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what
he owed to others. [Charlotte Cushman]
Originality lies not in accumulation, but in assimilation. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
What is the originality? It is nothing but undetected plagiarism.
[William R. Inge]
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and
copy it. [Anatole France]

PAIN
If you ever want to see a rainbow, you have got to stand a little rain.
[Chad Phillips]
It is no use holding others responsible for your ruin and destruction.
Because whatever happens to you is the result of something bad you
have done someone, somewhere in the past. The person who has
harmed you is only the medium through which God has managed to
teach you a lesson. [Anjleena Khunger]
No pain no gain. [English Proverb]
Pearl is result of pain borne by an oyster. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that
there is pain in this world, but that it depends upon him to turn it into
good account. [Rabindranath Tagore]
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive,
overreacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too
personally. We tend to small things too seriously and blow them out of
proportion. [Dalai Lama]
When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves. [ Leo F.
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PARENT
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way
parents obey their children. [Duke of Windsor]

PASSION
Passion is the key to success. Be passionate about your goal, commit
yourself and come out victorious. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
[John Sheffield]
Passions consist of conceptualisations. The ultimate non-existence of
these conceptualisations and imaginary fabrications – that is the
purity – that is the intrinsic nature of the mind. [Vimalakirti]

PAST
Do not live in the past. Let go of things that are draining you. There is
nothing that you can change or correct – that can only be done in the
present. So do not hang on to the past. [Anonymous]
Look into your past to sharpen your present and to shape your future.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is
an appalling waste of energy; you cannot build on it; it is only good
for swallowing in. [Katherine Mansfield]
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde]
Our future is planted in our past. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The immediate past is of no more consequence than the more distant
past. So, we must think all past actions to be those of a past life. This
will make it easy to ignore them and to concentrate on laying the
basis for future spiritual development. [Sri Ramchandra Mission]
The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the
present and the future. [Paul-Emile Bordaus]
When your past is imperfect, your future is tense. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
Why does not the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting and
waiting to be admitted by the present? [D. H. Lawrence]

PATIENCE
How poor are they that have to patience. What wound did ever heal
but by degrees? [William Shakespeare]
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those
who are willing to endure pain with patience. [Julius Caesar]

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 Patience pays. [English Proverb]
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the
egg, not by smashing it. [Arnold Glasgow]
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women
submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
[William E. Borah]
We need patience to endure as we need courage to face challenges.
[Niladri Sekhar dash]

PATRIOTISM
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for
your country. [Jug Suraiya]
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.
[Thomas Paine]
PAYMENT
It is not what you pay a man but what he costs that counts. [ Will
Rogers]

PEACE
A peace is of nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are
subdued and neither party loser. [William Shakespeare]
All we are saying is give peace a chance. [John Lennon]
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of
God. [St. Matthew]
Children have little time for parents; parents have little time for each
other’ and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
[Mother Teresa]
Do not pay them, who beat you with fists, in the same coin. Go to
their house and kiss their feet. [Adi Granth]
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is
keep us out of war. [Maria Montessori]
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. [ Larry
Eisenberg]
I somehow feel that everything will change for the better; that this
cruelty too shall end; that peace and tranquillity will return. [ Anne
Frank]
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a
real war against war; we shall have to begin with the children.
[Mahatma Gandhi]

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If you want peace, fight for justice. [Anonymous]
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with
your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. [ Nelson Mandela]
If you want to make peace, you do not talk to your friends. You talk
to your enemies [Moshe Dayan]
If you want world peace, fight for justice. [ Anonymous]
In the light of all the trouble in this world I wish us all peace. [ Chris
Cooper]
Inner peace and outer peace are synonymous in the sense that
without one, the other would not happen. [Yoko Ono]
Inner peace starts with looking at you from inside. Everything from
friend to boyfriend to job is a direct reflection of what you are inside.
[Mary J Blige]
It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being in peace that
we can make peace. [Thich Nhat Hanh]
Let us not be justices of peace, but angels of peace. [ Saint Theresa]
Make every effort to keep among you the unity of spirit through the
body of peace. [Ephesus]
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to His creatures;
peace is our gift we can give to each other. [Ellie Wiesel]
No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for
restoration of wisdom. [E. F. Schumacher]
Nothing can bring you peace but you. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace
comes not from force. [David Borenstein]
Peace and friendship will all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish
we may be permitted to pursue it. [Thomas Jefferson]
Peace can be reached through meditation on knowledge which
dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon
that which is dearest to the heart. [Patanjali]
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be kept through
understanding. [Albert Einstein]
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it does not have as many
monuments [Kin Hubbard]
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing
opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
[John F. Kennedy]
Peace is the dividend of peace. [Dan Quayle]
Peace is more important than all justice: and peace was not made for
the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. [ Martin Luther
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Peace is not a happy dream. It is a necessity. [ Gael Garcia Bemal]
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
[George Bernard Shaw]
Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope
with it. [Sun Dial]
Peace is possible if only there is greater ‘mitrabhava’ – the feeling of
friendship and ‘bhratribhava’ – the feeling of brotherhood. [Kanchi
Shankaracharya]
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. [ Adlai
Stevenson]
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a far better buy.
[Anonymous]
Peace rules day, where reason rules mind. [ Wilkie Collins]
Peace starts within each one of us. [Dalai Lama]
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with other nations –
entangling alliances with none. [Thomas Jefferson]
Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a
righteous and dynamic faith. [John Foster Dulles]
Peace, prosperity, liberty and morals have an intimate connection.
[Thomas Jefferson]
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that
the defences of peace must be constructed. [UNESCO Constitution]
Striving for peace in the world is a foolish pursuit unless one has a
peaceful mind. For, once the mind is dealt with, it is easier to handle
worldly affairs. [Anonymous]
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and
understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned
that change comes really slowly. [Paul McCartney]
The most disadvantageous peace is always better than the most just
war. [Desiderius Erasmus]
The pursuit for peace and progress, with its successes and its setbacks,
can never be relaxed and never be abandoned. [Dag Hammarskjold]
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. [ Grover
Cleveland]
The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have
started. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
They change their clime, not their frame of mind, who rush across the
sea. We work hard at doing nothing; we look for happiness in boats
and carriage rides. What you are looking for is here, is at Ulubrae, is
only peace of mind does not desert you. [ Horace]

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 They make a wilderness and call it peace. [Tacitus]
True peace is not merely the absence of tension but is the presence of
justice and brotherhood. [Martin Luther King]
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. [ Dwight D
Eisenhower]
We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. [Martin
Luther King]
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
[Dwight D Eisenhower]
When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace
with neighbouring communities. [Dalai Lama]
When peace has been broken anywhere, peace of all countries is in
danger. [Franklin D. Roosevelt]
When the ‘power of love’ overcomes the ‘love of power’ the world will
know peace. [Jimi Hendrix]
When we say: war is over if you want it, we mean that if everyone
demanded peace instead of another TV set, we would have peace.
[John Lennon]
Where people are praying for peace the cause of peace is being
strengthened by their very act of prayer, for they themselves become
immersed in the spirit of peace. [John Macquarrie]
World peace does not require that each man love his neighbour – it
requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance. [ John F.
Kennedy]
You can bomb the world to pieces, but you cannot bomb it into
peace. [Michael Franti]

PEOPLE
It is impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what
they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
[Ender’s Game]
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is
revealed only if there is a light within. [Elizabeth Kubler-Ross]
People come into our life for a reason or for a season. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
There is nothing to understand people. All you have to do is to take a
close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. [ Isaac
Asimov]
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what
they are. [Malcolm Forbes]
We are the people our parents warned us about. [ Jimmy Buffett]

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PERCEPTION
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into
the world of objective perception and thought. [Albert Einstein]
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at
heart. I simply cannot build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of
confusion, misery and death. [Anne Frank]
Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will
produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practise a purer
perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good
qualities. [Dalai Lama]
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in
between are the doors of perception. [Aldous Huxley]
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than
to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. [ Dalai Lama]
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
and perceived. [R. W. Emerson]

PERFECTION
All mankind is born for perfection and each shall attain it. He has to
follow the nature’s duty. [Bhagavad Gita]
Few, among thousands of men and women, strive for perfection.
[Bhagavad Gita]
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can
reach for; perfection is God’s business. [Michael J. Fox]
I shall seek to develop perfection of generosity, virtue, doing without,
wisdom, energy, forbearance, truthfulness, love, resolution and
serenity. [Gautama Buddha]
If you want to be perfect in your work just fall in love with it. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
The yearning for our lost perfection, the urge to do and be that which
is the noblest, the most beautiful of which we are capable, is the
creative impulse of every high achievement. We strive for perfection
here because we long to be restored to our oneness with God.
[Yogananda Paramahansa]
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists – in the loved
one – the perfection. [Sidney Poitier]
When God created the soul he fell back upon himself and made her
after his own likeness. [Thomas Eckhart]
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head
back and laugh at the sky. [Gautama Buddha]

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PERFORMANCE
All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we
are doing what we have been told or asked to do. [ Zig Ziglar]

PERSEVERANCE
Good fortune and misfortune take effect through our perseverance.
All the movements under heaven become uniform through
perseverance. [I. Ching]
Great works of history are performed not by strength but by
perseverance. [Samuel Johnson]
Success forsakes those who always dream of fate. It favours those who
persevere. One should therefore always be active and alert. [Matsya
Purana]
The heights by great men reached and kept/ were not attained by
sudden flight/ but they, while their companions slept/ were toiling
upward in the night. [Longfellow]

PERSISTENCE
Persistent people achieve more than their less persistent colleagues.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

PERSPECTIVE
You can look within for value, but you must look beyond for
perspective. [Denis Waitley]

PERSON
Personal feelings do not make for good politics, legal decisions, or
business deals. [Christopher Zelazny]
Sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to
understand others. [Anonymous]
The easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with
people smarter than I am. [James Stuart]
When you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that
person continue to hurt you. [Anonymous]

PERSUASION
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. [ Mother Teresa]
Human nature is not to be coerced but persuaded and we shall
persuade her by satisfying the necessary desires if they are not going
to be injurious. But if they are going to injure, be relentless in banning
them. [Epicurus]

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 If you have an important point to make, do not try to be subtle or
clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it
again. Then hit it a third time, a tremendous whack. [ Winston
Churchill]
The degree of freedom that is possible is tied to the extent to which
people respond to persuasion or inducement. [Thomas Sowell]

PESSIMISM
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, while an optimist sees
opportunity in every difficulty. [Winston Churchill]
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a
past or future event, then you are residing on another planet.
[Thomas Alva Edison]
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an
uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
[Helen Keller]

PHILOSOPHY
Paradise is populated by a majority of simple folk – those who kept
themselves away from mischief of philosophy. [Jalaluddin Rumi]
There is only one thing a philosopher can relied upon to do, and that is
to contradict other philosophers. [William James]

PHOTOGRAPHY
A photograph is always invisible; it is not what we see. [ Roland
Barthes]

PILGRIMAGE
As I make my slow pilgrimage through this world, a certain sense of
beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow around me. [ Arthur C.
Benson]
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls
of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual
pilgrimage. [Morris West]
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of
separateness. [Jalaluddin Rumi]

PITY
Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has
lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. [ Mencius]

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PLACE
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. [ Beverly Sills]

PLAN
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. [ George S.
Patton]
Desires and dreams without planning are just wishful thinking.
[Anonymous]
It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
[Albert Einstein]
People fail not because they plan to fail. They fail because they fail to
plan. [Anonymous]

PLEASURE
The quest of pleasure brings us nothing but the torment abounding.
Man thus makes of his evil desires only to shackle about the neck. You
the seeker of false delights! Remember, true liberation comes only
through the love of God. [Adi Granth]

POLITICS
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything
done, ask a woman. [Margaret Thatcher]
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen
by conspiracy. [Jefferson Greenfield]
Ninety per cent of the politicians give the other ten per cent a bad
reputation. [Henry Kissinger]
‘Poli’ is a Latin word meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ means ‘bloodsucking
creatures’. [Robin Williams]
Politicians make strange bedfellows, but they all share the same bunk.
[Edgar A Shoaff]
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. [ Ronald
Reagan]
Politics is an art of looking for trouble, finding it, mis-diagnosing it and
then misapplying wrong remedies. [Groucho Marx]
Politics is the art of polluting a society with the tricks of pretended
service. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Politics is there for controlling the environment. [Hunter S. Thomson]
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they have been
appointed for and thinking that they have been anointed. [Claude D.
Pepper]

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 There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel
may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. [ Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin]
We are living in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
[Martin L. Cross]

POPULARITY
Avoid popularity if you want peace. [Abraham Lincoln]
Be popular at the cost of privacy of your personal life. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
Popularity is a kind of opium that creates a stupor of fanciful
intoxication. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

POSITIVISM
Being positive does not mean sticking your head in the ground in
order to avoid the negative of life. What it means is that we are
realists who understand the negative aspects of life and choose to be
optimists instead. [Richard Wisner]
Deal with the negative and pursue the positive. That is why life is
worth living no matter how expensive or painful the lessons one has to
learn. [Richard Wisner]
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Take less, give more. Talk
less, say more. Like less, love more. And all good things will be yours.
[Swedish Proverb]
If you think, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your
demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith,
and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in
achievement and experience. [Swami Vivekananda]
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not
try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them
bloom. [Thich Nhat Hanh]
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. [Elbert Hubbard]

POSSIBILITY
Pleasure often disappoints; possibility never does. [Soren Kierkegaard]

POTENTIAL
Focus on your potential, not your limitations. Remember God lives in
you. [Anonymous]
When you realise the depth of your potential you can turn a
mountain with will. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

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POVERTY
Poverty will come upon you like a vagabond and want like an armed
man. [Chinese Proverb]
The poor men do not need charity; they need inspiration. [ Wallace
Wattles]
Poverty does not refer to the lack of affluence alone; it also refers to
lack of creativity. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

POWER
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who put our
hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. [ Swami Vivekananda]
Anyone who is capable of getting himself into a position of power
should on no account be allowed to do the job. [ Douglas Adams]
Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
[Kenneth Blanchard]
First of all, power is about making life for people around you better.
Second, power is about feeling better about yourself, in the sense that
you have done good things and people have benefited. And I would
say it’s certainly much more the first than the second – power is all
about making a difference to the people around you. [ N.R.
Narayana Murthy]
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered
himself is mightier still. [Lao Tzu]
I do not feel I am a superman. Power is responsibility and hard work.
The day I forget it, all my power leaves me. [Azim Premji]
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less
we use our power the greater it will be. [Thomas Jefferson]
Power invariably corrupts a man. It is inevitable in the present social
system. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you are
not. [Margaret Thatcher]
Power takes as ingratitude – the writhing of its victims.
[Rabindranath Tagore]
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. [Edmund
Burke]
The real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the
capacity to prevent it. [Anne McCornick]
There are only two powers in the world – the spirit and the sword; and
in the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
[Napoleon Bonaparte]

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 To me the thing that matters most is the ability to influence the course
of change. And, after all, it is about the power of ideas. [ Nandan
Nilekani]
Where there is power there is corruption. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

PRAYER
For the Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds
and hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to him in a loud voice.
[Black Elk]
Of all prayers of the heart, the best prayer is the prayer of the Master,
to be given the grace of properly praising the Lord. [Adi Granth]
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
[Edwin Keith]

PRETENTION
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we
pretend to be. [Kurt Vonngeut Jr.]

PRESENT
Do not dwell in past; do not dream of future, concentrate your mind
on the present moment only. [Gautama Buddha]
Our future is an extension of our present. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Nothing is worth more than this day. [Goethe]

PRESS
The printing press is the artillery of novel thoughts. [Anonymous]

PRIDE
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I
really was the greatest. [Muhammad Ali]
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than lose
that someone you love with your useless pride. [Chinese Proverb]

PRIVACY
Privacy is beginning to transform from the classic ‘right to be left
alone’ to the notion ‘I want control over my information’. [ Chris Kelly]

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PROBLEM
Every problem you encounter, you gather experiences in your mind.
[Gautama Buddha]
It is not that I am so smart. It is just that I stay with problems longer.
[Albert Einstein]
It is not that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the
problem. [G. K. Chesterton]
Life without problems is a real problem for survival. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
Problem is a part of solution. Face the problem and get the solution.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Problems invite us to go inside to recognize a bigger picture of
ourselves and of life. [Dalai Lama]
Solving problems requires me to become a leader in every sense of the
word. [From FISH]
Solving fundamental problem of life equips us with immense inner
strength to face and solve all the other problems. It does not promise
a magical solution but awakens mind with a new vision of life, which
is beyond all conflict and want. [Pramod Kumar]
The solution to a problem lies in the same place wherefore the
problem itself has arisen. [Gautama Buddha]
You cannot solve a problem on the same level on which it was
created. You have to rise above it to the next level. [Albert Einstein]

PROGRESS
If you always look back, you will never proceed. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The first condition of progress is removal of censorship. [ Bernard Shaw]
Without deviation from the norm, progress is impossible. [Frank
Zappa]

PROMISE
The more seriously we take future promise of God’s kingdom, the
more unbearable will be the contradictions of that promise which we
are destined to meet in the present. [Jurgen Moltmann]
Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform.
[Charles Haddon]

PROSPERITY
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
[Woodrow Wilson]

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PROTEST
He who protests an injustice is not an accomplishment to the act.
[Talmud]
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. [H. G. Wells]
The protest is more important than the form it takes, the issue is more
important than the language it is couched in. [Urvashi Butalia]
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. [ William Blake]
There may be times when we are simply powerless to prevent an
injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. [ Elie
Wiesel]

PUBLIC
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything but genius.
[Oscar Wilde]
Public is a thin cloth where threads are loosely bound. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]

PUNCTUALITY
Punctuality is a reflection of your self-discipline. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate
it. [Franklin P. Jones]

PUNISHMENT
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as
charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. [Henry Ford]
Punishment – the justice that the guilt deals out to those that are
caught. [Elbert Hubbard]
Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you – to make
you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the
sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity. [ Paramahansa Yogananda]

QUARREL
In false quarrel there is no valour. [William Shakespeare]
Quarrel is a healthy practice. It sharpens your tongue and increases
your vocabulary. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

QUIT
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he
quits. [Richard M. Nixon]
A winner never quits, a quitter never wins. [Anonymous]

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 Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. [Adolph
Hitler]

RAIN
And then the monsoons came, and they could not have come at a
worse time, bang in the middle of the rainy season. [ Spike Milligan]
God makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on
the just and on the unjust. [Matthew 5.45]
On the dusty earth-drum beats the falling rain; now a whispered
murmur, now a louder strain. Slender, silvery drumsticks, on an
ancient drum beat the mellow music bidding life to come. [ Joseph S.
Cotter]
Rain is a grace; rain is the sky condensing to the earth; without rain,
there would be no life. [John Updike]
The daily showers rejoice the thirsty earth and bless the flowery buds.
[Matthew Prior]
There is always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-
smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
[Don Delillo]
When clouds form in the skies, we know that rain will follow, but we
must not want for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to
interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed. [I
Ching]

REACTION
I am better able to react to what I did not say than what I did. [ Ibon
Gabriel]
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. [ Isaac Newton]

REALITY
Consciously and unconsciously, by our thoughts, beliefs and actions, we
create our realities. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time.
[Adolph Hitler]
Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one. [ Albert
Einstein]

REASON
Do not make reasons for him to stay, only reasons for him to return.
[Katherine Hepburn]

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 He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is week. [Michel de Montaigne]
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they
want to, when all they need is one reason why they do. [ Willis
Whitney]

RECOGNITION
Recognition is the appreciation of the achievement we make in our
sphere of action. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Recognition is the greatest motivator. [Gerard Eakedale]
Recognition must be followed by resolute and persevering action. [ I.
Ching]

RECONCILIATION
In reconciling a great injury, some injury is sure to remain, how can this
be good? Therefore, the sage holds the left-hand tally (obligation) of
a contract; he does not blame others. The person of virtue attends to
the obligation; while the person without virtue attends to the
exactions. [Tao Te Ching]

REGRET
Never regret anything because at one time it was what you wanted.
[Anonymous]
We regret because we fail to visualize the consequences while we act.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

RELATION
A relationship held loosely with respect and freedom for the other
person is likely to remain intact. But holding it too tightly and too
possessively makes it to slip away to be lost. [Kaleel Jamison]
It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are
frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. [ Scully, The X-Files]
One day you look at a person and see something more that you did
the night before, like a switch has been flicked somewhere and the
person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever
imagine yourself with. [Scully, The X-Files]
Relationships of all kinds are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely,
with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close
your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, sand trickles through your
fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. [ Kaleel
Jamison]

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RELAXATION
In your very being, in every fibre, in every cell of your being there will
be relaxation. This relaxation is the beginning of meditation. [ Osho]

RELIGION
A religious person has nothing to do with organised religion, but he
has something to do with the inner poetry, the poetry of life. He has
something to do with inner dance; he has dancing energy. He is in
deep romance with life, he is in romantic love with life. He is
immensely grateful to each moment of joy that God goes on giving.
[Osho]
A religious person, a genuinely religious person, is also a very tolerant
person. [Intizar Hussain]
All religions must be tolerated. Every man must go to heaven in his
own way. [Frederick the Great]
Brother, if you say there is but one way to worship and serve the
Great Spirit; if there is but one religion, why do you people differ so
much about it? [Red Jacket]
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity
within by controlling nature – external and internal. Do this either by
work or worship or psychic control or philosophy – by one or more or
all of these – and be free. This is the whole of religion. [Swami
Vivekananda]
I do benefit from all religions — I would hate to blow the hereafter on
a technicality. [Bob Hope]
I hope I never get so old I get religious. [Ingmar Bergman]
If we lose Hindu-Muslim unity, it would be whole humanity’s loss.
Eleven hundred years of common history have enriched India with our
common achievements. Our language, our poetry, our literature, our
culture, our art, our dress, manners and customs – everything bears
the stamp of our joint endeavours. This joint wealth is the heritage of
our common nationality. [Abdul Kalam Azad]
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one
who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
[Mahatma Gandhi]
It is religion, the inquiry into the beyond that makes the difference
between a man and an animal. [Swami Vivekananda]
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. [ G. K.
Chesterton]
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it;
anything but live for it. [Charles Colton]
My religion is simple, my religion is kindness. [Dalai Lama]

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 Never quarrel about religion. All quarrels and disputes concerning
religion show that spirituality is not present. [Swami Vivekananda]
Hindus and Muslims. Tell me which religion says to ignore the God in
your heart and be obsessed only with the temple or the mosque.
[Shah Haim]
One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of
God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at
the folly of savages who beat their gods when their prayers are not
answered; but it is the mockers who are fools and savages. [ Sri
Aurobindo]
Religion is opium of the mass. [Karl Marx]
Religion is the feeling of goodness, that love which is like river, living,
moving everlastingly. [J. Krishnamurti]
Religion is the manner in which you live your life. [ Rajan Nand]
Religion must not be considered true because it is necessary, but
necessary because it is true. [Swami Chinamoyananda]
Religion today has boiled down to a strange fear, anxiety, hope
towards an unknown dictator called god. [Swami Parthasarathy]
Religious quarrels are always over the husks. When purity, when
spirituality goes, leaving the soul dry, quarrels begin and not before.
[Swami Vivekananda]
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind
[Albert Einstein]
That religion which forbids humanitarian behaviour between men is
not a religion but a penalty. [B. R. Ambedkar]
The religious man tries to understand, not to control. He becomes
more meditative, simply watches, tries to understand what anger is,
and in that very understanding he transcends. He becomes a witness,
and in his witness the anger melts as if the sun has risen and the snow
has started melting. [Osho]
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our
own brain and our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
[Dalai Lama]
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know
what religion is. [Mahatma Gandhi]
When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same
lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. [ Theodore
Gomperz]

REMEDY
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. [Francis
Bacon]

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 If you have a problem, you have a remedy also. You have to just find
it out. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

REPENTANCE
Those who have an inclination of repentance have a good soul in their
body. [Manoj Kumar]

REPUBLIC
The republic is defended in two stages: Ballot Box and Jury Box. [ Eric
Schaub]

REPUTATION
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden
it was or what freedom really is. [Margaret Mitchel]
Reputation is the responsibility disguised in recognition. [Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

REQUEST
Just put forth a clear request and everything your heart desires must
come to you. [Mahatma Gandhi]

RESERVATION
Reservation is like a train compartment: those who are inside are
always in conflict with those who want to get inside. [Anonymous]

RESOLUTION
Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where
they have no account. [Oscar Wilde]
One resolution I have made and try always to keep is this: to rise
above little things. [John Burroughs]

RESPONSIBILITY
Entrust responsibility to a free bird and it becomes maker of a new
world. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
[Virginia Wolf]
Human responsibility is the absolute law of God, and unless you fulfil
it you have no way to get into heaven. [S. M. Moon]
Man must cease attributing all his problems to his environment, and
learn to exercise his will — his personal responsibility in the realm of
faith and morals. [Albert Schweitzer]

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 Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of the countries, it lies
with each of us, individually. [Dalai Lama]
Responsibility is a detachable burden easily shifted to shoulders of
God, fate, fortune, luck or one’s neighbour. In the days of astrology it
was customary to upload it upon a star. [Ambrose Bierce]
Responsibility is a golden crown with hidden thorns. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of a man. [ Roy L
Smith]
The high price of greatness is responsibility. [Winston Churchill]
To take responsibility is the most difficult problem in the world. [ Sun
Myung Moon]
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what
we are. [Jean Paul Sartre]

REST
And the rest is in rest. [Anonymous]
How wonderful it is to do nothing and then take rest afterwards.
[Spanish Proverb]
Never take rest before your goals are accomplished. [ Anonymous]
Rest for a while if you have miles to go. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Sometimes the cure for your restlessness is rest. [ Colleen Wainwright]
Time to relax is when you do not have time for it. [ Jim Goodwin]

RESULT
However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great
when it is not the result of a great purpose. [ Duc de La
Rochefoucauld]
Result-oriented action endorses better exercise. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

RETIREMENT
Retirement is resignation from life, but an opportunity to live a full,
dynamic life. [B. K. Trehan]

RETURN
Many a times a day, I realise how much my outer and inner life is
built upon the labours of people, both living and dead, and how
earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I
have received. [Albert Einstein]

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REVENGE
A life well lived is the best revenge. [Anonymous]
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. [ Mahatma Gandhi]
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
[Confucius]
He that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise
would heal and do well. [John Milton]
Revenge is a diet best served when cold. [Anonymous]
The best revenge is to be unlike him, who performed the injury on
you. [Marcus Aurelius]

REVOLUTION
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a
new bureaucracy. [Franz Kafka]

RICHNESS
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. [ W. C. Fields]
Be rich to be ruined. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
One of the greatest secrets of life is that we are all born rich but
become beggars. We do not search within ourselves for the treasures
we hold within. [Swami Sukhabodhananda]
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are
infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. [ Oscar Wilde]
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they
torment us with their loss. [Epicurus]
The richer you become, the bigger your enemies become.
[Anonymous]

RISK
Do not be afraid to confront risks. It is by taking chances that we learn
how to be brave. [Abraham Lincoln]
No risk no gain. No pain no gain. [Anonymous]
Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. [ George
S. Patton]

SAFETY
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
[William Shed]
Safety is not a gadget but a state of mind. [ Eleanor Evert]

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 If you are safe you are stagnant. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

SANITY
Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as
it is and not as it should be. [Miguel De Cervantes]

SATISFACTION
If the entire universe together with all its wealth is given to you, still it
can neither satisfy your craving nor will it be able to protect you.
[Lord Mahavira]
When you are satisfied with your works, your creativity is dead.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

SCHOOL
School is a weird thing. I am not sure it works. [ Johnny Deep]

SCHOLAR
One of the proud joys of the man of letters – is to feel within himself
the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize.
[Edmond Jules de Goncourt]

SCIENCE
And science, we should insist, better than any discipline, can hold up to
its students and followers an ideal of patient devotion to the search for
objective truth, with vision unclouded by personal or political motive.
[Henry H. Dalt]
It is a mistake to believe that a science consists of nothing but
conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it
should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for
authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism
by something else, even if it be a scientific one. [Sigmund Freud]
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating
ten more. [George Bernard Shaw]
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Do not worship it. Feed
it. [Aubrey Eben]
The value of science to society is in its unorthodoxy and ability to
challenge accepted concepts and theories. [Prasanta Chandra
Mahalanobis]

SEASON
If you give up in Winter, you will miss promise of Spring, beauty of
Summer and fulfilment of Fall. [Anonymous]

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 You cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season. The essence
of who they are and the pleasure, joy and love that come from that
life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.
[Anonymous]

SELF
Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is
because we are different and that each of us is special. [ Nelson
Mandela]
He that can compose himself is wiser than he that can compose books.
[Benjamin Franklin]
If what you are working for really matters, you will give it all you
have got. [Nido Qubein]
Never think or speak negatively about yourself. It puts you in
disagreement with God. [Anonymous]
The hardest battle you are ever going to fight is the battle to be just
you. [Leo F. Buscaglia]
The most difficult thing in life is know yourself. [ Thales]
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you.
[Wayne Dyer]
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. [John Lubbock]
You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you
do. [Bob Richards]

SELF-EFFORT
Attain self-knowledge by self-effort alone. Renounce fatalism and
apply your self-effort. [Anonymous]
By self-effort acquire wisdom and then realise that this self-effort is
not without its own end. It is the direct realisation of truth.
[Anonymous]

SELFISHNESS
If you want the whole world to admire you, make everyone happy
and waste no time in self-admiration. [Sayings of Zarathustra]
Seek your happiness in the happiness of others. Regard the sorrows
and sufferings of others as yours and hasten to assuage them. [ Sayings
of Zarathustra]
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from excessive
self-love. He who intends to be a great man ought to love neither
himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to
be done by himself or by another. [Plato]

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SENSE
The absence of sense is the presence of non-sense. [Niladri Sekhar
Dash]

SENTIMENT
Public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail and without it
nothing can succeed. [Abraham Lincoln]
Sentiment without action is a ruin of the soul. [ Edward Abbey]

SERVICE
All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy. [Mahatma Gandhi]
I stand here as the Republic’s first servant … to live up to the high
expectations of the people … and serve the best interest of the people.
[Prativa Patil]
Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or
state; servants of fame; and servants of business. [ Francis Bacon]
Our service to the needy is a prayer to the God in disguise. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
President means chief servant. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
[Muhammad Ali]
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the
served. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. [ De
Stael]
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
[Mahatma Gandhi]
The greatest service we can do the common man is to make all men
uncommon. [Normal Angell]
There is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than
being at service to someone in need. [Gillian Anderson]
We are born to serve in different capacities for betterment of
humanities at large. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It
comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. [Henry Ford]
With a genuine readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in
any group or community. [Sathya Sai Baba]

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SEX
A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four
times; and her intelligence, eight times. [Sanskrit Proverb]
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation. [ Kenneth
Rexroth]
I can remember when air was clear and sex was dirty. [ Robert Burns]
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. [ Zsa Zsa
Gabor]
I have been on so many blind dates; I should get a free dog. [ Wendy
Lieberman]
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many
books on how to? [Bette Midler]
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having
children; life is the other way around. [David Lodge]
Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics.
[Anonymous]
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their
strengths. [Lois Wyse]
Men get laid, but women get screwed. [Quentin Crisp]
My reaction to porn films is as follows – after the first 10 minutes, I
want to go home and screw. After first 20 minutes, I never want to
screw again as long as I live. [Erica Jong]
Nobody will ever win the battle of sexes. There is too much
fraternizing with the enemy. [Henry Kissinger]
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. [Woody Allen]
Sex has not been the same since women started enjoying it. [ Lewis
Grizzard]
Sex is a bad thing. It rumples the clothes. [Jackie Onassis]
Sex is great until you die, but it is never as great as it was when you
were a kid, when it was a mystery. [David Duchovny]
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won’t
either. [Joseph Fischer]
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. ‘Yes’ is the answer. [Swami
X]
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the
most amount of trouble. [John Barrymore]
Shopping is better than sex. If you are not satisfied after shopping you
can make an exchange for something you really like. [ Adrienne
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 The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females
begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl’. [Shirley Chisholm]
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. [ Normal Mailer]
We got new advice as to what motivated man to walk upright: to
free his hands for masturbation. [Jane Wagner]
When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A
woman already knows. [Frederick Ryder]
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean
conversation. [Samuel Johnson]
When women go wrong, men go right after them. [ Mae West]
Women need a reason to have sex — men just need a place. [Billy
Crystal]
You know why God is a man? Because if God was a woman she
would have made sperm taste like chocolate. [Carrie Snow]
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever
see a smart woman with a dumb guy. [Erica Jong]

SHORTCOMINGS
Keep your shortcomings in perspective – you are still a work in
progress. [Anonymous]

SIGNATURE
A signature always reveals truly a man’s character and sometimes
even his name. [Michael Moncur]

SILENCE
And the rest is silence. [Thomas Carlyle]
I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence. [ Xenocrates]
In awareness there is melody of music of spheres pulsating with cosmic
life. Hear only in silence. [Ananda Rajan]
In the emerald blue silence there is space for aware-full existence of
the fullness of Ananda. [Ananda Rajan]
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends. [Martin Luther King, Jr.]
It is better to be silent than to be a fool. [ Harper Lee]
Silence has the loudest voice, [Anonymous]
Silence is golden when you cannot think of a good answer.
[Muhammad Ali]

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 Silence is the hardest arguments to refute. [Josh Billings]
Silence is the only thing that cannot be misquoted. [Adolph Hitler]
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. [Confucius]
There are some times when silence has the loudest voice. [ Anonymous]
When our heart sinks, silence speaks. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. [ Jalaluddin
Rumi]

SIMPLICITY
You have to be a genius to understand simplicity. [ Dennis Ritchie]
Simplicity is the best art of expression. [English Proverb]

SIN
A saint is just a sinner who fell down and got up. [Jeffrey R. Palmer]
Indifference is a sin. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. [ Jose Marti]
Sin is not just breaking the law, but failing to discover the adventure
at the very heart of living. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to
be indifferent to them; that is the essence of inhumanity. [ George
Bernard Shaw]

SINCERITY
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. [Jules Renard]
My sincerity is my greatest friend as well as my worst enemy [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Only those who are absolutely sincere can fully develop their nature. If
they can fully develop their nature, they can fully develop the nature
of others also. [Doctrine of the Mean]
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. [Oscar Wilde]

SITUATION
There is no situation that is not transferable. [ Desmond Tutu]
We are the children of contexts punctuated with situations. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

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SLAVE
There is no such thing as a well-adjusted slave. [Martin Luther King Jr.]
We are born slaves to our instinct. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

SMARTNESS
Half of being smart is knowing of what you are actually dumb about.
[Solomon Short]
It is not that I am so smart; it is just that I stay with problems longer.
[Albert Einstein]

SMILE
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. [ Charles Gordy]
Everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile. [ Anonymous]
If your sweet simple smile irritates somebody, be sure the man is a
crack. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Have a day full of smiles. [Anonymous]
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. [ Jules
Renard]
Smile a while and while you smile, smile another smile, and soon there
will be miles and miles of smile, just because you smiled. [Anonymous]
Smile can do wonders. It heals wounded hearts, it wins friends. [ Dell
Carnegie]
Smile! It makes people wonder what you are thinking about. [ D.
Gilbert]
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of other’s joy. [Anonymous]
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks
better than all. [Anonymous]
Wear a smile, be positive. It changes your day and the way you think.
[Kareena Kapoor]
You have not lost your smile at all. It is right under your nose. You
have just forgot that it is there. [Anonymous]

SOLUTION
Every problem has a solution. The only thing is that we need to
identify it. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. [Billy Graham ]

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SORROW
He best can pity who has left the woe. [John Gray]
I thought I alone had sorrow; but sorrow is spread all over the whole
world. From my roof-top I saw every home engulfed in sorrow’s
flames. [Adi Granth]
If winter comes can spring be far behind? [P. B. Shelley]
Never grumble.All sorts of forces enter when you grumble and they
pull you down. We find in others what is in us…If we always find mud
around us, it proves that there is mud somewhere in us. [ The Mother]
People who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrow
knows how to swim. [Woody Allen]
Sorrow purifies our heart and fills it with purity. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]
The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrows are denied. [ Eddie Vedder]

SPACE
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited
dimension. [Lao Tzu]
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to
develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal
adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These
are things which he has thought about as a child. [ Elbert Einstein]
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is
opinions. [Democritus]
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a
dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle
ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
[Rod Sterling]
There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment
that may only be traversed by his longing. [ Kahlil Gibran]
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
[Joseph Campbell]

SPEECH
A word spoken in due season, how good it is! [ English Proverb]
Conversation is the one of the greatest pleasures in life. But it wants
leisure [Somerset Maugham ]
Everything that can be said can be said clearly. [ Ludwig Wittgenstein]
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
to say it. [Voltaire]
I must dare to speak the truth, when truth is my theme. [ Plato]

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 If we do not speak ill of the dead, who will? [Harold Bloom ]
If you have not got something nice to say, you should not say anything
at all. [Anonymous]
Now speak or be ever silent. [Philip Massinger]
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. [ Theodore
Roosevelt]
When it is not necessary to speak, it is necessary not to speak.
[Anonymous]
When you speak so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying. [ Galileo
Galilee]
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. [ Paul Brown]

SPEED
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on
man. [Milan Kundera]

SPIRIT
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds. [Albert Einstein]
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. [ Earl
Warren]
Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the
rich. It is a choice of the wise. [Swami Chinmoyananda]
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
[Mark Twain]
The spirit in thee is a river. Its sacred bathing place is contemplation;
its waters are truth; its banks are holiness; its waves are love. Go to
that river for purification; thy soul cannot be made pure by mere
water. [Hitapadesh]

SPORTS
It is amazing what can be accomplished when you do not care who
gets the credit. [Anonymous]
It is what you learn after you know it all that actually counts.
[Anonymous]
Sports play a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist
attitudes. They are designed to organise a community to be
committed to their gladiators. [Abhram Noam Chomsky]

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STABILITY
A society will change when hundreds of people become stable within
themselves. You cannot stabilise a society without stabilising people.
[Jaggi Vasudev]
First thing is to stabilise life. We do not know when that can happen.
So the first thing is to stabilise your system, your energies, your
emotions, and your mind. If you stabilise this, irrespective of what is
happening around you, you pursue your goal. [ Jaggi Vasudev]
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore
avoid undone elation in prosperity or undone depression in adversity.
[Socrates]

STAGE
Every one of us plays a pre-ordained part on the stage of life. We are
like puppets whose strings are in the hands of God. No one knows
when or how or even which one of us He might withdraw from this
show next. [Johnny Walker]
For in and out, above and below, it is nothing but a Magic Shadow
Show, played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, round which we
Phantom Figures come and go. [Omar Khayyam ]
The cause of human happiness and misery is a false representation of
the understanding. This world is a stage stretched out by the mind, its
chief actor, and Atman sits silent as a spectator of the scene. [ Yoga
Vasistha]
The world has no substantial reality, but exists as a shadowy pageant
or play. [Shabistari]

STATE
The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and
precisely what not to do. [Eric Hoffer]
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of individuals
composing it. [John Stuart Mill]

STATISTICS
Lie, damn lie, and statistics. [Anonymous]
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they
conceal is vital. [Aaron Levenstein]
Statistics must have a clearly defined purpose, one aspect of which is
scientific advance and the other, human welfare and national
development. [Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]
There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind
you make up. [Rex Stout]

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STEALING
Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you
king. [Bob Dylan]
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
[Malcolm McLaren]

STORM
Storms make tress take deeper roots. [Dolly Parton]

STRATEGY
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without
strategy is the noise before defeat. [Sun Tzu]
Strategic partnership is a tragedy of friendship. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]

STRENGTH
Be faithful in small things because it is in them, your strength lies.
[Mother Teresa]
Do not expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
[Calvin Coolidge]
I can always pray for someone when I do not have the strength to
help him in some other way. [Calvin Coolidge]
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Strength does not come from winning. In truth, your struggles develop
your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to
surrender, that is strength. [Arnold Schwarzenegger]
The stronger man’s arguments are always the best. [Jean de La
Fontaine]

STRESS
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the
breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an
emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. [Natalie
Goldberg]

STRIFE
Striving connotes a mechanical activity of trying to achieve something
motivated by a visualised target. [Ram Narayan Panda]

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STRIKE
It is difficult to go on strike if there is no work in the first place.
[George Brown]
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody,
anywhere, anytime. [Calvin Coolidge]
What do you do when a tomato goes on strike? You Picket.
[Anonymous]

STYLE
Style transforms common quartz into an Egyptian pebble. It is in the
inter texture of the substance itself. [John Burroughs]

STRUGGLE
Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to the endless night.
[Jim Morrison]
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
[Franklin Roosevelt]

SUBTRACTION
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars;
that is subtraction. [Mae West]

SUCCESS
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited
enthusiasm. [Charles Schwab]
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can
spend. [Anonymous]
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him. [David Brinkley]
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
[Mark Twain]
Behind every successful man, there is a long history of many unsuccessful
years. [Bob Brown]
Coming together is beginning, keeping together is progress, and
working together is success. [Anonymous]
Do not measure yourself by those things you have accomplished, but
rather by what you should have accomplished with your abilities.
[Anonymous]
Eighty per cent of success is showing up. [ Woody Allen]
For success you need four things: think, believe, dream and dare.
[Walt Disney]

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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of success
of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it
regardless of the possible outcome. [Golda Meir]
I have become convinced that every detail is important and that
success usually accompanies attention to little details. It is this that
makes difference between champion and near champion. [ John
Wooden]
I have been brought up with the belief that there is no shortcut to success
and nothing can replace hard work. Ultimately, it is one’s efforts that pay
off. Anyone who works with efficiency and a good, clean heart will always
be successful. [Sunil Bharti Mittal]
If you do not stand for something, you will fall for everything. [ Steve
Waugh]
If you want big success, take up big challenges and face big problems.
[Anonymous]
If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you
go. [John B. Gough]
It is most difficult to separate any success, whether it be in your
profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
[John Wooden]
It is only through ceaseless hard labour I can convert my failures into
success. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are,
without any sort of self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of
events, by which the path to success may be recognised. This recognition
must be followed by resolute and preserving action. [ I Ching]
Life’s battles do not always go to the stronger or faster man; but
sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
[Anonymous]
Never mistake activity for achievement. [Anonymous]
Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
[Navjot Singh Sidhu]
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This
is the secret of your success. [Swami Sivananda]
Success can never be controlled, but performance can. [ John F.
Murray]
Success forsakes those who always dream of fate; it favours those who
persevere. One should therefore always be active and alert. [ Matsya
Purana]
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cannot
lose. [Bill Gates]
Success is all in a state of mind. [Anonymous]

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Success is dream and determination combined together. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Success is how high you bounce back when you hit the bottom. [George
Patton]
Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set
yourself on fire. [Fred Shero]
Success is not what you do, but how you do it. No system is good if
players are not well-grounded in fundamentals. [Anonymous]
Success is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine per cent
perspiration. [Thomas Alva Edition]
Success is peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfaction in
knowing you gave your best effort to become the best of which you
are capable. [Anonymous]
Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks and courage. [ Charles Luckman]
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have
let go. [William Feather]
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
[Henry David Thoreau]
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to
success. [Shaquille O’Neal]
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but lack of will. [ Vincent T.
Lombardi]
The LAW of success lies in Looks, Actions and Words. [ Arindam
Chakrabraty]
The path from dream to success does exist. May you have the mission
to find it, courage to get on to it, and perseverance to follow it.
[Kalpana Chawla]
The secret of success is reticence. [John Irvine]
The secret of success is to start from a scratch and keep on scratching.
[Dennis Green]
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person
does not like to do. [Thomas Alva Edison]
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man wonders what
is right. [Confucius]
There is no shortcut to any place worth going. [ Socrates]
To be the best, you got to do your best. [ Kareena Kapoor]
To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life
and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and
the people that make you happy – this is success. [Sasha Azevedo]

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 When a man takes something upon himself he can manage more
than one could think. [Johann H. Pestalozzi]
Whenever I hear ‘it cannot be done’, I know I am close to success.
[Michael Flatley]
You have success within. It is up to you to bring it out. [ Anonymous]

SUFFERING
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn with it [ Anonymous]
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. [African Proverb]

SUPPORTERS
Supporters are like a woman, they need to be conquered daily.
[Ronaldo]

SURVIVAL
Survival for the fittest. [Charles Darwin]
Survival is all about reliving good memories and hoping for a better
future. [Anonymous]
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know
enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another
question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
[Desmond Morris]

SYMPATHY
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
[Edmund Burke]

TACTNESS
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. [ Isaac
Newton]

TALENT
Use what talent you possess. The woods would be silent if no birds
sang except those that sang best. [Henry Van Dyke]

TAX
Count the day won when turning on its axis this earth imposes no
additional taxes. [Franklin P. Adams]
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax. [ Albert
Einstein]

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 The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone
designed it on purpose. [William E. Simon]
The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur; not the
automobile. [Woodrow Wilson]

TEACHER
He, who can, does; he, who cannot, teaches. [George Bernard Shaw]
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. [ Chinese
Proverb]
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and
pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with
a sharp stick called ‘truth’. [Dan Rather]
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a
teacher, only a fellow student. [Soren Kierkegaard]

TEAM
TEAM: Together Everybody Accelerating a Mission. [ Anonymous]
There is no ‘I’ in TAEM. [Anonymous]
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team
confidence, excellence becomes a reality. [Joe Paterno]

TEAR
No man is ever worth your tears... and the one who is not, makes you
cry! [Anonymous]
Tear is a costly commodity. [Anonymous]
Tears can be more special than smiles. For smiles can be given to
anyone, but tears are shed for people we love. [ Anonymous]

TECHNOLOGY
A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
[Arthur C. Clarke]
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not
experience it. [Max Frisch]

TEMPTATION
Temptation is a bad friend. It often leads one to a mirage. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for
the wrong reason. [T. S. Eliot]

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TENACITY
It is really hard to beat a person who never gives up. [Babe Ruth]
Never give up when things go wrong or seemingly insurmountable
problems arise. Failures simply are practice shots for success. Creativity
put to work can turn a problem into a gold mine. [ Frozen Thoughts]
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. [Mother
Teresa]

TENSION
Tensions are our guests; we have invited them. Relaxation is our
nature; we do not have to invite it. You do not have to relax; you
have just to stop inviting tensions and relaxation will start on its own
accord. [Osho]

TERROROSM
Fighting terrorism is like being a goal-keeper. You can make a
hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the
one that gets past to you. [Paul Wilkinson]
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. [Anonymous]
Like most things terror is in the mind more than reality. [ Anonymous]

THOUGHT
A man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
[Mahatma Gandhi]
A man is what he thinks all day long. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. [ Thomas
Szasz]
I can think, therefore I can differ. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
I think, therefore I am. [Rene Descartes]
I think, therefore I exist. [Anonymous]
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your
thoughts. [Alan Cohen]
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. [ Bertrand
Russell]
Now, if you choose thoughts that will create problems and pain, that
is rather foolish. It is like choosing food that always makes you ill. We
may do this once or twice, but as soon as we learn which foods upset
our bodies, we stay away from them. It is the same with thoughts. Let
us stay away from thoughts that create problems and pain. [ Louise L.
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 The ancestor of every action is a thought. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
The intellect makes itself visible in the act of thinking. [ Hermetica]
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
[Marcus Aurelius]
There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. [ William
Shakespeare]
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is
everything. [Henri Poincare]
Thought is the most potent and creative power in the world. It initially
takes shape in an individual mind. When shared with others, any
benevolent thought starts growing as a vibrant process encompassing
more and more people. [Swami Bhumananda]
Thoughts have power. Thoughts are energy. And you can make your
world or break it by your own thinking [ Susan Taylor]
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. And,
with our thoughts, we make the world. [Gautama Buddha]
We create our own world by our own thoughts, and thus we make
our own heaven – and our own hell. [Swami Mukutananda]
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The
man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. [ Marquis De
Sade]
Your thought creates your reality. [Jane Abram]

TIME
One thing you cannot recycle is wasted time. [Anonymous]
Only through time, time is conquered. [T. S. Eliot]
Remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you
have for sure. [Oprah Winfrey]
The less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
[Anonymous]
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but
there must never be a time when we fail to protest. [ Elie Wiesel]
Time and tide wait for none. [English Proverb]
Time can be your best friend as well as your worst enemy. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Time in itself is nothing, but from it thought receives its rise. [Lucretius]
Unless time is managed nothing else can be managed. Unlike other
resources time cannot be stocked, stored or utilized at will. It is a
unique commodity and has to be spent judiciously. [ Peter Druke]

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 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. [Oliver W. Holmes]

TIREDNESS
The only thing lazy people do fast is get tired. [Adolph Hitler]
Tiredness is inevitable after a long journey called life. [ Niladri Sekhar
Dash]

TOBACCO
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I have done it a
thousand times. [Mark Twain]
Tobacco is cheap, but it raises the insurance. [ Mark Twain]

TOGETHERNESS
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. [ Helen Keller]
It is because one antelope will blow the dust from the other’s eye that
two antelopes walk together. [Akan Proverb (Ghana)]

TONGUE
Fear your tongue: it is an arrow that hardly misses the mark.
[Anonymous]
The tongue is a savage beast; leave it free and it will wound you.
[Maxims of Ali]

TRAGEDY
The tragedy of life is not death, but what dies within you when you
are alive. [Anurag Basu]
Tragedy gives us an opportunity to look into our inner self. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]

TRAINING
People are busy gathering spiritual teaching. They have got half a
dozen gurus in their handbag. In your lifetime, in your many lifetimes,
if you meet just one live Guru, you are fortunate. [ Sadguru Jaggi
Vasudev]
We are trained right from childhood to gather everything that we can
get. We think gathering is education. All the time we want to gather.
[Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev]

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TRANSITION
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is
troublesome. [Isaac Asimov]

TREE
I never saw a discontented tree. [John Muir]
The image of a tree is the template within which all of the sacred
world could be apprehended. [Brian Bates]
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
[Rabindranath Tagore]
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet
we cut them down. People still wonder why some are afraid when
they are told they are loved. [Anonymous]

TRUTH
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine to five
hours. [Hunter S. Thompson]
It is always the best policy to speak the truth – unless, of course, you
are an exceptionally good liar. [J. K. Jerome]
It is better to declare the truth and be rejected than to withhold it just
to be accepted. [Anonymous]
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people
laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in
learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. [ Umberto
Eco]
The truth goes to market, but it is unsold; lying costs very little to buy.
[Yoruba Proverb]
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. [Oscar Wilde]
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly
approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human
spirit is capable. [Thomas Daly]
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. [George
Bernard Shaw]

TRUST
Better and more rewarding is God’s reward to those who believe and
put their trust in Him: who avoid gross sins and indecencies and, when
angered, are willing to forgive ... he who forgives and seeks
reconciliation shall be rewarded by God. [Holy Qur’an]
Never trust a person who is not having at least one crisis.
[Anonymous]

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 The best proof of love is trust. [Joyce Brothers]
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. [ George
Macdonald]
When we trust as far as we can, we often find ourselves able to trust
at least a little further. [Mark Gibbard]

TYRANY
When in despair I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers,
and for a time they can see seem invincible, but in the end they
always fail. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Whenever law ends, tyranny begins. [John Locke]

UNFORTUNATE
He is the most unfortunate who is today is not better than yesterday.
[Muhammad]

UNGRATEFULNESS
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the
intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful
to these teachers. [Kahlil Gibran]
People are normally ungrateful. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

UNIQUENESS
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a
woman manly or a man womanly. [Virginia Wolf]
If you are unique you are destined to be marooned. This world is not
grown up enough to endure your uniqueness. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]

UNITY
Every great construction is a combination of smaller units united into
a synchronized whole. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what
they do when they stick together. [Verna M. Kelly]
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
The earth is but one country and the mankind is its citizens.
[Bahaullah]
United we merge; divided we emerge. [Anonymous]
United we stand; divided we fall. [Anonymous]
Unity is strength. [English Proverb]

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 We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by
embracing one another. [Luciano Crescenzo]

UNIVERSE
Always think of the universe as one living organism, with a single
substance and a single soul. [Marcus Aurelius]
And there is no object so soft but it makes the hub of the wheeled
universe. And I say to any man or woman, let your soul stand cool
and composed before a million universes. [Walt Whitman]
Each man is a microcosm of the universe. [ Sun Myung Moon]
Gazing up at the stars, for the first time, I laid my heart open to the
benign indifference of the universe. [Albert Camus]
I do not pretend to understand the universe — it is a great deal bigger
than I am. [Thomas Carlyle]
In every atom of this existence there are countless universes. [ Yoga
Vasistha]
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the
language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a
text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we
are able to decipher a small fragment. [Arthur Koestler]
Is the universe a great mechanism, a great computation, a great
symmetry, a great accident or a great thought? [ John D. Barrow]
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul. Somehow, I am in
tune with the Universe. [Mercedes Mac Cambridge]
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but
that it is indifferent. [Stanley Kubrick]
The universe becomes intelligible to the extent of our ability to
apprehend it as a whole. [Arnold Toynbee]
The universe is both one and many. [Hakuin]
The universe is one of God’s thoughts. [Friedrich Schiller]
The universe is transformation. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
[Marcus Aurelius]
The whole universe is my native land. [Kalpana Chawla]
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest
in intelligence — or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-
products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly’s
wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. [ Arthur C.
Clarke]

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VALUE
Each object’s
true value is its value in context. [Swami
Venkatesananda]
The true value of a thing lies in its application. [ Niladri Sekhar Dash]

VANITY
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.
[Francois De le Rochefoucauld]

VEGETABLE
I am a vegetarian not because I love animals. I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants. [Anonymous]

VICE
All vices are like chains thrown around the neck. [Adi Granth]

VICTORY
Between the victor and the vanquished the scales are even. Each is
helpless in his own incapacity. Drawn into the vortex of the other’s
personality by a gravitational pull natural as water and air, inevitable
as life and death. [Bejan Daruwalla]
Even victors are by victories undone. [John Dryden]
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than one who conquests
his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. [ Aristotle]
It is not enough to conquer. One must know how to seduce. [ Voltaire]
Once you hear the details of a victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a
defeat. [Jean Paul Sartre]
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner
satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you
have got the most out of what you had to give. [ Howard Cosell]
The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or
not. In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters, but
victory. [Adolph Hitler]
The victors belong to the spoils. [Andrew Jackson]
Victory belongs to the most persevering. [Napoleon Bonaparte]
Victory breeds hatred, for the defeated live in pain. Happily live
peacefully giving up victory and defeat. [Dhammapada]
We know the destination and we will stay on the path mile by mile,
all the way to destination, and all the way to victory. [ George Bush]

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 When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But
regardless to the short-term outcome, the very fact for your
continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
[Daisaku Ikeda]

VIOLENCE
All the violent delights have all the violent ends. [William
Shakespeare]
All violence is injustice. [Thich Nhat Hanh]
I object to violence because when it appears to be good, the good is
only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. [ Mahatma Gandhi]
It is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending
her borders. [Mahatma Gandhi]
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put
on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be
defended and not to be shared. [Henri Nouwen]
Non-violence does not always work – but violence never does.
[Madge Micheels-Cyrus]
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence but
also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but
also refuse to hate him. [Martin Luther King]
Nothing good ever comes of violence. [Martin Luther]
Only reverence can restrain violence – reverence for human life and
the environment. [William Coffin]
People try non-violence for a week, and when it does not work, they
go back to violence which has not worked for centuries. [ Theodore
Roszak]
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
[Mahatma Gandhi]
Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other
person but also to oneself. It is only with compassion that we can
embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships
between individuals as well as in relationships between nations. [ Thich
Nhat Hanh]
Suffering is the offspring of violence. Realize this and be ever vigilant.
[Acharanga Sutra]
That which you consider worth destroying is yourself. That which you
consider worth disciplining is yourself. That which you consider worth
subjugating is yourself. That which you consider worth killing is
yourself. The result of actions by you has to be borne by you. So do
not destroy anything. [Acharanga Sutra]

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 The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
[Chinese Proverb]
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the
most probable change is to a more violent world. [ Hannah Arendt]
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil,
it multiplies it. Violence merely increases hate. [Martin Luther King Jr.]
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not
channelled and understood, it will break out into war or in madness.
[Sam Peckinpah]
To be free of violence is the duty of every man. No thought of
revenge, hatred or ill-will should arise in your minds. Injuring others
gives rise to your hatred. [Swami Sivananda]
Violence breeds violence. [Anonymous]
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a
sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person or
when we obey because there is fear. [Juddu Krishnamurti]
Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy,
and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the
violence for what it was. [Gil Baile]
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent [Isaac Asimov]
Violent revenge is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son’s
death. Let us reflect and pray. Let us think about a rational response
that brings real peace and justice to our world. But let us not, as a
nation, add to the inhumanity of our times. [ Letter to President Bush
from the parents of a victim of 11th September 2001]
When one is established in non-injury, beings give up their mutual
animosity in his presence. [Yoga Sutras]

VISION
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. [ H. Jackson
Brown Jr.]
The foolish rejects what he sees and not what he thinks. The wise
rejects what he thinks, not what he sees. [Huang-Po]
The only limits are those of vision. [James Broughton]
We need vision not only to look beyond but also to look within.
[Niladri Sekhar Dash]

VOTE
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever designed by man for
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 imprison men because they are different from other men. [ Lyndon B
Johnson]

WALK
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away
from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts. Thus if
I keep on walking, everything will be alright. [Kierkegaard]
If they heed not thy call, then walk alone, walk alone, walk alone.
[Rabindranath Tagore]
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. [ Anatole
France]
Never lose your desire to walk. Consistent walking on the path will
bring to near to your destination. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Our nature lies in the movement; complete clam is death. [ Pascal]
Walk is the way-less way, where the sons of God lose themselves and,
at the same time, find themselves. [Meister Eckhart]
There is no happiness for the man who does not travel. Living in the
society of men, the best man becomes a sinner. [ Aitareya Bharmana]
You cannot travel the path before you have become the path itself.
Walk on. [Gautama Buddha]

WAGE
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages [Edwin
H. Stuart]

WANT
After a time, you may find that ‘having’ is not so pleasing a thing,
after all, as ‘wanting’. It is not logical, but is often true. [ Spock]
I wanted to be someone; but since I did not know who it was, I
became no one. [Anonymous]
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide
what you want. [Ben Stein]
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything
else. [Andre Gide]

WAR
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on
military defence than on programmes of social uplift is approaching a
spiritual death. [Martin Luther King, Jr.]
After a war, a hero is just a man striving with one leg. [ Anonymous]

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All warfare is based on deception. [Sun Tzu]
As in law or in war, the longest purse finally wins. [ Mahatma Gandhi]
Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Cicero]
Even a short war could cost the world one per cent of GDP per year
over the next few years. [An Australian Estimate]
Global military expenditure is twenty times the total official
development assistance. Never before has the earth faced so much
death and danger. [Indira Gandhi]
I launched the phrase: ‘The war to end war’ – and that was not the
least of my crimes. [H. G. Wells]
If it is natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn
how? [John Baez]
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you
would never see another. [Napoleon Bonaparte]
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners,
but all are losers. [Neville Chamberlain]
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an
act of murder. [Albert Einstein]
Mankind must put up an end to war before war puts an end to
mankind. [John F. Kennedy]
Modern war has become a struggle for men’s minds as well as for their
bodies. [Robert McClure]
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is
not a crime. [Ernest Hemingway]
No one can claim that war might lead to a safer, more just and more
stable world. [de Villepin]
No one is so foolish as to prefer peace to war, in which, instead of sons
burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. [ Croesus, Lydian King]
No one wins a war. [Brock Chisholm]
One is left with the horrible feelings now that war settles nothing; that
to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. [ Agatha Christie]
Real disarmament cannot come unless the nations of the world cease
to exploit one another. [Mahatma Gandhi]
Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that
the defences of peace must be constructed. [Preamble, UNESCO
Constitution]
Sometimes they will give a call for war and nobody will come. [ Carl
Sandburg]
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of
the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. [ Robert Lynd]

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The opposite of war is not peace, it is creation. [ Jonathan Larson Rent]
The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing
which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. [Vera
Brittain]
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels
for carving out peaceful tomorrows. [Martin Luther King Jr.]
The quickest way of ending war is to lose it. [George Orwell]
The tragedy of war is that is uses man’s best to do man’s worst. [ Henry
Fosdick]
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to
seek peace like intellectual pygmies. [Basil O’Connor]
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better
achieve without it. [Havelock Ellis]
There is only one truth about war: people die. [ Sheridan]
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be
found to prevent the drawing of the sword. [ S. Grant]
This war will not be over by the next commercial break. [Anonymous]
Those who celebrate victory are bloodthirsty and the bloodthirsty
people cannot have their way with the world. [Sun Tzu]
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of
the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
[Pythagoras]
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. [ John
Kennedy]
War does not determine who is right. It only says who is left.
[Anonymous]
War has no fury like a non-combatant. [C. E. Montague]
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. [ Georges
Clemenceau]
War is like love; it always finds a way. [Bertolt Brecht]
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. [ A. de Saint-
Exupery]
War is terrorism magnified a hundred times. [Anonymous]
We build more bombs to sadly learn that it is not peace those
weapons earn, when mountains melt and rivers burn. [ Gerald
Bosacker]
We live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious
election results that elect a fictitious president. We have a man who is
leading us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war. [ Mike
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 We make war that we may live in peace. [Aristotle]
We need to start asking why war is considered to be an instrument of
policy. [Dennis Kucinich]
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not things which
enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war.
Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
[Simone Weil]
When women are depressed they either go for eating or shopping.
Men invade another country. [Elayne Boosler]

WATER
All the water that will ever be is right now. [National Geographic,
October 1993]
Filthy water cannot be washed. [West-African Proverb]
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. [ Loran Eisely]
Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl
Harbour or Argonne or Gettysburg or Saratoga. [ Jim Wright]
The high quality of water is more than the dream of conservationists,
more than a political slogan’ high quality water, in the right quality, in
the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and
economic growth. [Edmund S. Muskie]
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing;
it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
[Lean Giraudoux]
Water is the petroleum of the 21st century. [Yao Graham ]
We have never really learned how important water is to us. We
understand it, but we do not respect it. [William Ashworth]
What is the earth but a lump of clay surrounded by water?
[Bhartrihari]
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. [ Benjamin
Franklin]
When you drink water remember the spring. [Chinese Proverb]

WEAKNESS
Accept your weakness. Everybody has them. Instead of spending your
time and energy trying to overcome, make friends with it and make it
work for you [Anonymous]

WEALTH
A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man dreams of happiness. [ Turkish
Proverb]

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 He who loses wealth, loses much; he who loses friends, loses more; but
he who loses his spirit, loses all. [Spanish Proverb]
The accumulation of wealth is the way to scatter the people, and the
letting it be scattered among them is the way to collect the people.
[Great Learning 10.9]
The character is your wealth; your good conduct is your wealth and
your spiritual wisdom is your wealth. [Atharva Veda]
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you
lost all your money. [Anonymous]
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times compared to the man with
a satisfied mind. [Jeff Buckley]
Wealth is like an orchard, a fruit tree. You have to distribute the fruit,
not the branch. You have to plant more seeds to create more wealth.
[Carlos Slim Helu]
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. [Benjamin Franklin]
Wealth is not what we have but what we are. [Anonymous]
Wealth, property and Maya are false; in the end, the mortal departs
in sorrow, leaving these behind. [Guru Nanak]

WICKET
Wickets are like wives — you never know which way they will turn.
[Navjot Singh Sidhu]

WIFE
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his
cleverness and just stupid enough to admire it. [Israel Zangwill]
A man without a woman is like a fish without water. [Anonymous]
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that
your wife will give you for free of cost. [ Anonymous]
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back to
home always. [Henny Youngman]
If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife yelling at the
front door, let in the first. At least he will shut up after you let him in!
[Anonymous]
If your wife wants to learn to drive, do not stand in her way.
[Anonymous]
In my house I am the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. [Woody
Allen]
My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours. That was only for the
estimate. [Anonymous]

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 Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let
her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
[B. Johnson]
She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell
off. [Anonymous]
She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, “Am I too late for the
garbage?” Following her down the street I yelled, “No, jump in”.
[Anonymous]
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. [ Anonymous]
When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of
one thing: either the car is new or wife. [Anonymous]
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let
him keep her. [Sacha Guitry]
WIFE: War Invited For Ever. [Anonymous]

WIN
A winner celebrates others. [Anonymous]
A winner does not do different things. He does the same things
differently. [Anonymous]
A winner is not afraid of losing. [Anonymous]
A winner is willing to pay a price. [Anonymous]
A winner makes his days count. [Anonymous]
A winner never quits while a quitter never wins. [Anonymous]
A winner takes all. [Anonymous]
A winner translates dreams into realities [Anonymous]
A winner works harder than a loser. [Anonymous]
For winning three factors are essential: focus on the goal,
resourcefulness and an effective process. [Bhagavad Gita]
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a
cause that will some day lose. [Woodrow Wilson]
If I win I win, if I lose, I learn to win. [Anonymous]
If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.
[Walter Reuther]
If you think it is going to rain, it will. [Clint Westwood]
It is not whether you win or lose; it is how you place the blame. [Oscar
Wilde]
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.[Bruce Springsteen]
One has to win internally to win externally. [Anonymous]

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 Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you
come second are your wife and your dog. [ Damon Hill]
Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. You learn more from
one loss that you do from a million wins. [ Amy Van Dyken]

WISDOM
A wise man is totally free from all kinds of attachment. His actions are
absolutely free from egoism and therefore motiveless. He can
transcend all the limitations. [Swami Nityaswarupananda]
Be wise to know your limitations. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. [ Earl of
Chesterfield]
Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is
governed. [Count Oxenstierna]
Endowed with wisdom one gets rid of both good and evil. Wisdom
and action revitalise each other through interaction in the course of a
man’s life. [Bhagavad Gita]
Even the wise cannot see all ends. [William Golding]
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. [ English
Proverb]
God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty. [I Corinthians]
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference. [Reinhold Niebuhr]
He alone is wise who fears not another, nor makes others afraid.
[Guru Tegh Bahadur]
He who is satisfied with wisdom and direct vision of Truth, who has
conquered the senses and is ever undisputed, to whom a lump of
earth, a stone and gold are the same, that Yogi is said to be a Yukta,
a saint of established wisdom. [Bhagavad Gita]
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
[Lao-Tze]
I am better off than he (a man reputed for wisdom) is, for he knows
nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I
know. The truth is that God only is wise. [Plato]
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be
reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
[Mahatma Gandhi]
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom. The music is nothing if the
audience is deaf. [Anonymous]

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 Kings may rule the world, but the wise men rule the kings. [ Shekel
Hakodesh]
Knowledge complicates while wisdom simplifies. [Mason Cooley]
The man who cannot distinguish gold from mud is a mad; one who
sees differences but is not affected by it is a sage. He knows the true
value of every object in God’s nature, and fulfils God’s will in every
way. [Swami Venkatesananda]
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom. [H. L. Mencken]
The wise man gladly leaves fame to others. [I. Ching]
The wise man gladly leaves fame to others. He does not seek to have
credited to himself for things that stand accomplished, but hopes to
release active forces; that is, he works in such a manner that they may
bear fruit for the future. [I. Ching]
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but
for deliverance from fear. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
The wise man overcomes anger through mind control, lust through
renunciation of desire. Through his conduct he protects mind and
speech. Through constant vigilance he sheds fear and through service
of the people he overcomes pride. [Bhrama Purana]
The yogi will use a clod of earth to clean his hands, a stone to keep his
papers from flying and a piece of gold to feed the hungry: but he has
risen above the false sense of values. [Swami Venkatesananda]
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. The
wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I
myself perceived also that one even happens to them all. [Ecclesiastes]
Truly wise is he who is unstirred by praise or blame, by love or hatred.
He is not moved by the opposites of life. [Bhagavad Gita]
Wisdom is a weapon to ward off destruction; it is an inner fortress
which the enemies cannot destroy. [Thiruvalluvar Thirukural]
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it
merely because it comes late. [Felix Frankfurter]

With only coarse rice as meal and only plain water as drink, and only
my arms as pillow, I still find joy in the midst of these conditions.
Wealth and honour acquired contrary to righteousness are to me like
the passing cloud. [Confucius]

WIT
Wit ought to be glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like
marmalade. [Noel Coward]

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WOMAN
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. [ Fannie
Hurst]
Beautiful women are never faithful. But faithful women are not
always beautiful. [George Bernard Shaw]
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. [ Maryon Pearson]
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did He give us a
brain? [Clare B. Luce]
For most of history, anonymous was a woman. [ Virginia Woolf]
I believe that women have a huge role to play in creating a just, non-
violent and peaceful world. [Betty Williams]
I have spent my whole life looking for the perfect woman, and now I
have found her. Too bad she is looking for the perfect man. [ Mark
Twain]
In the beginning, God created earth and rested. Then God created
Man and rested. Then God created Woman. Since then, neither God
nor Man has rested. [Anonymous]
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women
should try and give their best qualities to men – bring them softness,
teach them how to cry. [Joan Baez]
Men are made for war: Without it they wandered greyly about,
getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organise the
really important things of life. [Alice Thomas Ellis]
Most hierarchies were established by men who now monopolize the
upper levels, thus depriving women of their rightful share of
opportunities to achieve their incompetence. [Lawrence J. Peter]
Oh, I am not a woman; I am a force of nature. [ Courtney Love]
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is
a woman’s heart. [Josiah G. Holland]
The mouth of a cannon is safer than the mouth of a woman scorned.
[Anonymous]
The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons? [ Susan
B. Anthony]
The trouble with most women is they get all excited about nothing,
and then they marry him. [Joan Cherry]
Too many women in too many countries speak the same language of
silence. [Anusuya Sengupta]
What is amazing is that women are unaware of their worth.
[Anonymous]
Why, to the women of this country I would say exactly what I say to
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 hopeful and unashamed, and remember that, with something to
take, Hindus have immeasurably more to give than any other people
in the world. [Swami Vivekananda]
Woman bear hardships and they carry burdens, yet they spread
happiness, love and joy. [Anonymous]
Women are pro-peace because they care about life. [Shiva Vandana]
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answers. They
were not even one of the questions. [Julian Barnes]
You do not love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful
because you love her. [Anonymous]

WORD
Look at the ocean beyond the spray; look at the essence beyond the
words. [Jalalluddin Rumi]
One should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow
he may have to eat them. [Anonymous]
One thing you can give and still keep is your word. [ Anonymous]
Words exist because of meaning. Once you have got the meaning, you
can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten
words, so I can talk with him? [Tuang Tzu]
You can get more with a nice word and a gun than you can with a
nice word. [Al Capone]

WORLD
Concerned alone with the upholding of the world, you should act.
Whatever the best man does, others do that also. The world follows
the standard he sets for himself. [Bhagavad Gita]
Do not let the spacious plans for a new world divert your energies
from saving what is left of the old. [Winston Churchil]
If people of this world treated Mother Earth with the same love as
that of their own mother, this world would have been a heaven. [ Simi
Bajaj]
May be this world is another planet’s Hell. [Aldous Huxley]
The trouble with this world is that God needs to self-actualise.
[William G. Buchanan]
The world stands upon three things: upon the law, upon worship, and
upon showing kindness. [Mishnah Abot]
View the world through the eyes of a child and then you will find the
pleasure of living in it. [Niladri Sekhar Dash]

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WORK
As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great
day. Your colleagues, team members, and you yourself will be
thankful. [From FISH]
At the end of the day nothing but your works stand by you. [ Niladri
Sekhar Dash]
Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much get done. [ J.
Ling]
Go to the ant, consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any
chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her food in summer, and gathers
her sustenance in harvest. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding
of hands to rest. [Chinese Proverb]
God gives every bird its food, but does not always drop it into the nest.
[Anonymous]
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their
sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. [ Sam
Ewing]
He who always says, ‘It is too hot, too cold, too late!’ leaving the
waiting work unfinished still, lets pass all opportunities for good. But
he who reckons heat and cold as straws and like a man does all that is
to be done he never falls away from happiness. [ Digha Nikaya]
He whose livelihood is earned through work, and part given away in
charity — such a one, truly knows the way of God. [ Adi Granth]
Honour lies in honest toil. [Cleveland]
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to a patient who
considers his work important. [Bertrand Russell]
If you do not want to work you have to work to earn enough money
so that you won’t have to work. [Ogden Nash]
Labour Day [1st May] is dedicated to plain people rather than heroes
and historic events. We need this annual reminder because during the
rest of the year the contributions made to our well-being by workers
are taken for granted. [George Meany]
Someone once asked me why do you always insist on taking the hard
road? And I replied why do you assume I see two roads? [ Anonymous]
There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if
there is not a choice about the work itself. [From FISH]
Those who seek to enjoy the fruits of their work are verily unhappy
because one has no control over the results. [ Bhagavad Gita]
We are serious about our works without being serious about ourselves.
Stay focused to present when your customers and team members
need you. [From FISH]

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 When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is
slavery. [Maxim Gorky]
When you feel your energy lapsing, try this sure-fire remedy. Find
someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear
— and make their day. [From FISH]
When your work speaks for itself, do not interrupt. [ Henry Kaiser]
Whoever works righteousness benefits his own soul; whoever works
evil, is against his own soul; Your Lord is never unjust to His servants.
[Holy Qur’an]
Work is either fun or drudgery. It solely depends on your attitude. I
like to call it a fun. [Colleen C. Barret]
Work is worship. [English Proverb]

WORRY
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
[Leo Buscaglia]
Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but gets
you nowhere. [Van Wilder]

WORSHIP
He who has served and helped one poor man, seeing Shiva in him,
without thinking of his caste or creed or race, or anything — with him
Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in
temples. [Swami Vivekananda]
This is the gist of all worship — to be pure and to do good for others.
[Swami Vivekananda]
Worship Him through the meditation in the sanctuary of your heart.
[Bhagabad Gita]

WRITING
Let us beware of writing too well; it is the worst possible manner of
writing. [Anatole France]
Two sorts of writers possess genius; those who think, and those who can
others to think. [Joseph Roux]

YOGA
In the beginning yoga is a practice. Then it becomes a way of life.
[Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati]
When yoga becomes a way of life identification with and expression of
balanced, positive and optimistic nature takes place and then one
attains physical, mental and spiritual clam. [Swami Niranjanananda
Saraswati]

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 YOUTH
In youth we ran into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. [ Josh
Billings]
When young, we trust ourselves too much; and we trust others too
little when old. Rashness is the error of youth; timid caution of age.
[Charles C. Colton]
You will be nearer to heaven through football than through study of
the Gita. You will understand the Gita better with your biceps, your
muscles, a little stronger. [Swami Vivekananda]
You will understand the Upanishads better and the glory of the
Atman when your body stands firm upon your feet and you feel
yourselves as men. [Swami Vivekananda]

THE END

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