Thursday, January 29, 2015

My quotes collection 4

(Collection of quotes by Turlapati Sambasiva Rao garu)

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller 

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou  

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel 

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. Sai Baba 

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck 

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. Brian Tracy

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Charles de Montesquieu

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. Amy Tan

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. Jerry Falwell 

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne





you worship his form,you repeat his name ; but without practcing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind. All else is a mere show .Empty rirual...Satya Sai Baba

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. Baltasar Gracian 

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John Lennon 

Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished...Lao Tzu

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha 

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford 

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 



Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Lord Chesterfield

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life...swami vivekananda.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in. Louise Brown

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. Thomas Bailey Aldrich    

                 

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