Sunday, April 11, 2010

Memorable Quotes

Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.
Katha Upanishad

The desires are superior to the senses, the mind is superior to the desires, the intuition (understanding) is superior to the mind, the great Self is superior to the intuition.
Katha Upanishad

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
Arthur Eddington

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans wrote in the 1930s, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.”

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason US comedian

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Socrates

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates

Hitler said..
"when you are in the light,everything follows you,
But when you enter into the dark,even your own shadow doesnt follow you."

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

He who desires is always poor.
Claudianus

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
Manu Smriti

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
Elvis Presley

One gradually attains tranquility of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else.
Bhagavad-Gita

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

“It is better to prevent and prepare than to repent and repair.”
Ezra Taft Benson

“Money is like Manure, it is no good unless you spread it around helping young things to grow”
Ephraim Levi

Penny wise, pound foolish.
Robert Burton

Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Leonardo DaVinci

Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception.
Erwin Schrodinger

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
Erwin Schrodinger

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain

The body is but a sacred garment.
Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.
Novalis (1772 - 1801)

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield US actor & comedian

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne US author & humorist

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison US inventor

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx US comedian with Marx Brothers

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Emo Phillips US comedian

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
Henny Youngman US comedian

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
Henny Youngman US comedian

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny Youngman US comedian

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia

“Politicians and diapers should be changed often, and for the same reason.”
Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog
Mark Twain

"People say motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why it's recommended daily." - Zig Ziglar

"Never settle on being average, because being average means you are the best of the worst and worst of the best." - From a bulletin board at Anoka-Hennepin Vocational-Technical College, Brooklyn Park, Minn.
"I do not fear success or failure, because in success I learn control, and in failure I learn to try again." - Sylvia Brown, author

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit on it." - Pat Koppman

"Every day will only be as productive as you allow it to be; don't let the hurdles of life ruin your race to success!"

"What we do on some great occasion will depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline" - H.P. Liddon

He who makes no mistakes has never made anything." - Joseph Heller

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke

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