QUOTES OF GENIUS
How to play the game of life? WE should not
play the game of life in such a way that we
may lose our credit in the court of God.---GURU NANAK
We are lie silk-worms. We make the
thread out of our own substance and spin the cocoon, and in course of time, are
imprisoned inside. But this is not for
ever. In that cocoon we shall develop spiritual realization, and like the
butterfly come out free. This network of
Karma we have woven around ourselves; and in our ignorance we feel as if we are
bound, and weep and wail for help. But
help does not come from without; it comes from within ourselves. Cry to all the gods in the universe. I cried for years, and in the end I found
that I was helped. But help came from
within. And I had to undo what I had
done by mistake. That is the only
way. I had to cut the net which I had
thrown round myself, and the power to do this is within. ----SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
India’s historic destiny. It was India’s
historic destiny that many human races and cultures and religions should flow
to her, finding a home in her hospitable soil, and that many a caravan should
find rest here. Even before the dawn of
history, these caravans trekked into India and wave after wave of new-comers
followed. This vast and fertile land
gave welcome to all and took them to her bosom.
One of the last of these caravans, following the footsteps of its
predecessors, was that of the followers of Islam. This came here and settled here for good. This led to a meeting of the culture-currents
of two different races. Like the Ganga
and Jumna, they flower for a while through separate courses, but nature’s
immutable law brought them together and joined them in a sangam. This
fusion was a notable event in history.
Since then, destiny, in her own hidden way, began to fashion a new India
in place of the old.----MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD
What type of religion do we require? We require a religion which is both
scientific and humanistic. Religion, science,
and humanism were sisters in ancient India; they were allies in, Greece. They must combine today if we are to attract
all those who are equally indifferent to organized religion and atheism, to
supernaturalism and nihilism. We need a
spiritual home, where we can live without surrendering the rights of reason or
the needs of humanity. Reverence for
truth is a moral value. It is dearer
than Buddha or Jesus. Truth is opposed,
not to reason or the Greek spirit, but to dogma and fossilized tradition. We cannot rest the case of religion any more
on dogmatic supernaturalism.---DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN.
Real great men have democratic
tendency. The
great men of the world who were, born to bring the real advancement of mankind
had a marked democratic tendency. They
were more anxious to raise than to rise.
They used their abilities for the betterment of human lot. Though they were themselves highly gifted,
they never showed any contempt for the common run of people but, on the
contrary, they freely mixed with them, worked for them and as one of them. This is the one great distinguishing trait in
the character of all real benefactors of humanity, be he a prophet or a man of
action. Their universal sympathy
radiates all through their words and actions.----AUROBINDO GHOSH
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WITH CHILDREN WE MUST MIX GENTLENESS
WITH FIRMNESS.—THEY MUST NOT ALWAYS HAVE THEIR OWN WAY, BUT THEY MUST NOT
ALWAYS BE THWARTED.---IF WE NEVER HAVE HEADCHES THROUGH REBUKING THEM, WE SHALL
HAVE PLENTY OF HEARTACHES WHEN THEY GROW UP.---BE OBEYED AT ALL COSTS; FOR IF
YOU YUIELD YOUR AUTHORITY ONCE, YOU WILL HARDLY GET IT AGAIN.---SPURGEON.
SELF LOVE IS NOT SO VILE A SIN AS
SELF-NEGLECTING.---SHAKESPEARE.
CHOOSE SUCH PLEASURES AS RECREATE MUCH
AND COST LITTLE.---FULLER.
THE SUPERIOR MAN WILL WATCH OVER HIMSELF
WHEN HE IS ALONE. HE EXAMINES HIS HART
THAT THERE MAY BE NOTHING WRONG THERE, AND THAT HE MAY HAVE NO CAUSE OF
DISSATISFACTION WITH HIMSELF.---CONFUCIUS.
STRENGTH IS BORN IN THE DEEP SILENCE OF
LONG-SUFFERING HEARTS; NOT AMIDST JOY.---MRS. HEMANS
TRUST NOT THE WORLD, FOR IT NEVER PAYETH
WHAT IT PROMISETH.----AUGUSTINE
A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW AND THEN IS
RELISHED BY THE WISEST MEN.---OLD NURSERY RHYME
THE GREAT WEAKNESS OF WOMEN (WHO SEEK CAREERS) IS THAT THEY HAVE NEVER
BEEN TRAINED TO WORK LIKE MEN. I MEAN
TRAINED SO FROM INFANCY. MEN ARE BROUGHT
UP IN THE TRADITION THAT MEN MUST WORK. ----JOHN B. WATSON
IN SCANCAL AS IN ROBBERY, THE RECEIVER
IS ALWAYS AS BASD AS THE THIEF.----CHESTERFIELD.
PEACE IS SUCH A PRECIOUS JEWEL THAT I
WOULD ANYTHING FOR IT BUT TRUTH.—M. HENRY
FALSEHOODS NOT ONLY DISAGREE WITH
TRUTHS, BUT THEY USUALLY QUARREL AMONG THEMSELVES.----DANIEL WEBSTER
SIN HAS MANY TOOLS, BUT A LIE IS THE
HNDLE THAT FITS THEM ALL.---O.W.HOLMES
THERE IS NO PLACE SO HIGH THAT AN ASS
LADEN WITH GOLD CANNOT REACH IT.---ROJAS
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