(Collection of Quotes by Turlapati Sambasivarao garu)
I don't know what your
destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be
really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert
Schweitzer
The world is a looking
glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William
Makepeace Thackeray
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy
It takes great wit and
interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity.
One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Herrick
I don't want to be
interesting. I want to be good. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If only I may grow:
firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. Dag Hammarskjold
God does not die on the day when we cease to
believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be
illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of
which is beyond all reason. Dag Hammarskjold
The game of life is a
game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later
with astounding accuracy. Florence Scovel Shinn
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
James Cash Penney
Music must take rank
as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other,
ministers to the human spirit. Herbert Spencer
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal
relations to external relations. Herbert Spencer
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. Pablo
Neruda
A child who does not
play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child
who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. Pablo Neruda
As I grow older, I pay
less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
Never be in a hurry;
do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for
anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de
Sales
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman
You should tell
yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives
you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Jane Roberts
A child's education
should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr.
All action results
from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. Sai Baba
The real religion of
the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all,
who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
We are told to let our
light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses
don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. Dwight
L. Moody
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really
need. Vernon Howard
Just be honest with
yourself. That opens the door. Vernon Howard
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of
himself..Abraham.H.Masloe
I wanted to be with
the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one
of them again, no matter how hard you try. Ethel Waters
My motto is: Contented
with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb
The third-rate mind is
only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only
happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy
when it is thinking. A. A. Milne
Genius might be the
ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
The only kind of
dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of
others. Dag Hammarskjold
I've always believed
that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. James A.
Baldwin
What we have once
enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen
Keller
It is not our purpose
to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other
and honor him for what he is. Hermann Hesse
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but
self-rejection. Henri Nouwen
While the river of
life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on
either bank seems to change. Max Muller
Man is the miracle in
nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Jean Ingelow
Do your little bit of
good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm
the world. Desmond Tutu
In God's family, there
are no outsiders, no enemies. Desmond Tutu
When you are
enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very
simple. Paulo Coelho
One of the sanest,
surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good
fortune of others. Robert A. Heinlein
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. Sam Levenson
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. Samuel Johnson
Being entirely honest
with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of
thankfulness for what we have. Daniel Defoe
The soul is placed in
the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will
never appear. Daniel Defoe
No act of kindness, no
matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
The real voyage of
discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
I can only note that
the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It
expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only
about the past. Virginia Woolf
If thou desire the
love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but
itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue,
nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles
Good words are worth much, and cost little. George Herbert
Take all that is given
whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good
digestion all can be turned to health. George Herbert
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
My strength is as the
strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every action of your
life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to
bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with
each one of us? Dorothy Day
In everyone's life, at
some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter
with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who
rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer
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