Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 219

"Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a Bank where thay have no account."

~ Oscar Wilde

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 218

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

~ Helen Keller, American social activist, public speaker and author (1880-1968)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 217

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

~ Jonathan Swift, English satirist (1667-1745)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 216

Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is : Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

~ Jesus Christ, Matthew 22:36-40

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 215

To every people did we appoint rites (of sacrifice), that they might celebrate the name of God over the sustenance He gave them from animals (fit for food), But your God is One God: submit then your will to Him (in Islam) and give thou the good news to those who humble themselves.

~ Qur’an 22.34

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 214

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it .

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

But after observations and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is

conductive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

~ Buddha

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 213

For everything there is a season,

And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, And a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

~Ecclesiastes, 3:1-3:8

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 212

 

"Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies."

~ Anon

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 211

“Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. “

~ PSALM 90:12

 

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 210

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.


~John F. Kennedy

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 209

Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.

~ The Dhammapada

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 208

 

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 207

Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

~ Bible

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 206

Festival of lights

Today's the 'Festival of Lights' all o'er;
a joyful day for minds and hearts and souls;
And people throng the Temples to offer,
Prayers, resolving to take roles.

And most of them are richly clad and clean,
and eat such dainty foods and sweets with mirth;
Whilst noisy crackers burst, their lights are seen,
It seems to be a happy day on Earth!

But are there not hearts woe-filled, very sad?
Denied of laughter, smiles for days;
Today's the triumph of Good over bad;
But what about the wastage in much ways?
True joy is when you see someone else smile!
True charity gives joy in Heav'nly style.

~ John Celes

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 205

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

~W. Somerset Maugham

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 204

"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

~George Bernard Shaw

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 203

Forests are the ‘lungs’ of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

~ Franklin D Roosevelt

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 202

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today ? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.

~ Babatunde Olatunji

Words of Wisdom Of the Day 201

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

~ Deepak Chopra

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 200

No matter what conditions you encounter in life, your right is only to the works, not to the fruits thereof. You should not be impelled to act for selfish reasons, nor should you be attached to inaction.

~Bhagavad Gita 2.47

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 199

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

~Rabindranath Tagore ( from Gitanjali)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 198

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

~Helen Keller

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 197

UN observes 2nd. October, Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, as the "International Day of Non-violence" for the first time. Lets rededicate ourselves to carry forward his messages towards creating a better world.

“Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.”

~ MK Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi)

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 196

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that can not be taken from you.

~ Oscar Wilde

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 195

Life becomes richer as love grows. And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you- friendship with trees, birds, animals, mountains, rivers, oceans, with stars.

~ Osho

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 194

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.

~ Mary kay Ash

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 193

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

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 192

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges. You have to believe in yourself.

~ Muhammad Ali

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 191

The Human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

~ Maria Edgeworth

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 190

The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. To be good and do good - that is the whole of religion.

Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man.

~ Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) (A towering spiritual monk of India)

 

 

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 189

"Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it."

~Rabindranath Tagore

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 188

men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

~ Oscar Wilde

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 187

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

~W. Somerset Maugham

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 186

In order to protect the righteous and also to punish the wicked, I incarnate myself on this earth from time to time.

~ Bhagavad Gita

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 185

“The best way to know God is to love many things.”

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 184

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

~MK Gandhi

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 183

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.

~ Qur’an

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 182

Eat of your Lord’s provision, and give thanks to him.

~ Qur’an

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 181

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

~David Attenborough

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 180

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 179

Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

~ Ralph Marston

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 178

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"

~Mark Twain

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 177

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

~Oscar Wilde

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 176

Love is the beauty of the soul.

~Saint Augustine

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 175

Spring has its hundred flowers
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breeze,
Winter its snow.
If you allow no idle concerns
to weight on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.

~ The Golden Age of Zen

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 174

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

~ Agatha Christie

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 173

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

~ Helen keller

Note : Helen Keller was deaf and blind from infancy

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 172

Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.

~Spike Milligan (04/16/1918 - 02/27/2002)
Actor

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 171

Honesty is the best policy.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 170

"Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away."

~ Cernuda y Bidon

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 169

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 168

We stand now where two roads diverge…. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

The other fork of the road, the one less traveled by, offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

~ Rachel Carson, woman of science

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 167

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.'

~Albert Einstein

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 166

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

~ Helen Keller

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 165

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 loyalty,
days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

~Henrik Ibsen

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 164

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

~ Deepak Chopra

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 164

"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"

~Victor Hugo

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 163

The rose with its redolent petals

The water lily with its robe of virgin white

These have surely come to us in transmigration

Of but a few of those

Endowed with sublime beauty and grace.

Some embrace death to spout again,

But most, forever, in dust remain.

~Mirza Ghalib

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 162

If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.

~ an African proverb

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 161

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR AN HOUR

TAKE A NAP

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR A DAY

GO ON A PICNIC

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR A WEEK

GO ON A VACATION

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR A MONTH

GET MARRIED

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR AN YEAR

INHERIT WEALTH

IF YOU WANT HAPPINESS FOR LIFE TIME

LEARN TO LOVE WHAT YOU DO

~ Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 160

"In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today -- more serious even than the threat of terrorism."

~ David A. King

5th June observed as "World Environment Day"

(David King, Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government, once said this warning in a International science meet in 2004 to bring the issue of Global Warming in to sharp focus.)

Photo : TOI dated 5/6/07

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 159

Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.

~ Anon

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 158

Marriage – an investment that pays rich dividends, if you manage to keep up the interest.

~Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 157

"Love is like a butterfly, hold it to tight and you will crush it, look away and it'll be gone."

~ Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 156

“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”

~ Calvin & Hobbes

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 155

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

~Henry Van Dyke

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 154

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.'

~Marie Curie

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 153

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

~Lao Tzu

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 152

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'

Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

~Erich Fromm

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 151

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

~ Mahatma Gandhi (MK Gandhi)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 150

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

~ William Shakespeare

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 149

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

~ ~William James

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 148

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over."

~ Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 147

" For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

~Judy Garland

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 146

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

~Helen Keller

Helen Keller (1880-1968 ) was deaf and blind from infancy. But she never lost the battle and she became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. She will remain alive as inspiration to the blinds of the world.

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 145

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Thought on Mothers' Day ( # 144 )

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.



~ Lin Yutang

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 142

"Health is the greatest gift,

contentment the greatest wealth,

faithfulness the best relationship".

~ Buddha