My Quotes Collection 9

(Collection of quotes by Turlapati Sambasiva Rao garu )

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen

“Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. Henry Ward Beecher 

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. - Harvey fierston

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. Douglas Horton

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer 

Men are only as great as they are kind. Elbert Hubbard

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. Michel de Montaigne

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. Francis of Assisi  

  

  

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit. Charles Stanley

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. Anna Freud

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles R. Swindoll

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. James Loeb  

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Tension is self-given. Be careful.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too. Ram Dass

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore

Guru is Shiva without his three eyes, Vishnu without his four arms Brahma without his four heads. He is parama Shiva himself in human form. -Brahmanda Purana

Real riches are the riches possessed inside. - B. C. Forbes

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. B. C. Forbes

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. David Hockney 

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. David Hockney

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. Christian Nestell Bovee

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie    

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. A. C. Benson

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. Elbert Hubbard.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray  

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln 

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. Christopher Morley

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. William R. Alger

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. William R. Alger

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. William R. Alger  

God made me and broke the mold. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau