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Serenity, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purity of thought are the austerities of the mind.

Bhagavad Gita 17:16

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.

Guru Ramdas

Simplicity is not to be found; it does not lie as a choice between the essential and the non-essential. It comes into being when the mind is not caught in speculations, conclusions, beliefs, ideations. Such a free mind only can find truth. Such a mind alone can receive that which is immeasurable, which is unnameable; and that is simplicity.

J Krishnamurti

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness.

The XIV Dalai Lama

Manifest plainness,

Embrace simplicity,

Reduce selfishness,

Have few desires.

Lao-Tzu

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Christmas is not over yet

You are the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is pointing upwards and its branches grow on all sides. It is orderly. At the time of year when no tree bears anything, it has many gifts to offer. And it is green throughout the year. A Christmas tree bears the gifts and the lights not for itself. All the gifts you are carrying in your life are for others. Anyone who comes to you, you offer them your gifts.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Christmas gift sugges-tions: To your enemy, forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to a customer, service; to all, charity; to every child, a good example and to yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

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Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.

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Norman W Brooks

Kindness The Essence of Living

Kindness Quotes and Inspiring Quotes

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.

Talmud

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When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

The Dalai Lama

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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received or how much money we have made... We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, i was naked and you clothed me, i was homeless and you took me in.'

Mother Teresa

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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If i stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: If i do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Martin Luther King Jr

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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

Audrey Hepburn

Rules For Living

Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs
   Respect for self
   Respect for others
   Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Enjoy Every Minute

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.
Mother would come out and say, You're tearing up the grass.
We're not raising grass, Dad would reply.We Are raising boys.

~Harmon Killebrew

Fathers matter. So does keeping the important things in perspective.
The lawn will always be there, but children grow up and move away, and being a parent to lively young children is fleeting it. Enjoy every minute!


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What Is Life Quotes

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time


Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Anonymous


Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
Claude Pepper



Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Marion Howard


Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
Forrest Gump


Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton John Sheen


Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson


Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru



Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown


Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer


Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz





Life is like a vicious circle.... only the ones on the edge know what it is to face Highs and lows Siddharth Astir


Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg


Life is like an hour glass, every grain of sand means something.
zachary roderiques


Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip


Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
Unknown


Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
John Updike


Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg


Life is like driving on the road.... Most of those who are right , Loose patience and change lanes(paths) and are generally the ones to reach the destination quickly. However if they are not careful they may end up in disarray.
Siddharth Astir

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Samuel Butler


Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler



Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein


Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand


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Most Famous Quotes by Jawahar Lal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889–27 May 1964) was an Indian statesman who was the first prime minister of India, from 1947 until 1964.


A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Jawaharlal Nehru

A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru



Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Great causes and little men go ill together.
Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Jawaharlal Nehru


The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Jawaharlal Nehru

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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There is no fire like lust

"There is no fire like lust,
and no chains like those of hate.
There is no net like illusion,
and no rushing torrent like desire."

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Delight Yourself in The Lord

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Teach me to do your will

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Parents are Here Always to help Us

Quotes On Parents

Let your mother be to you like unto a god!
Let your father be to you like unto a god!
Let your teacher be to you like unto a god!
Taittiriyaka Upanishad 1.11.2
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Son, why do you quarrel with your father,
Due to him you have grown to this age?
Adi Granth, Sarang Rag
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Treat your parents with kindness;
if either of them or both reach old age in your presence, do not rebuff them.
Speak to them with the utmost respect.
Quran 17:23-24
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When a man honours his father and mother, God says,
"I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."
Talmud
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If your parents take care of you up to the time you cut your teeth, you take care of them when they lose theirs.

African Proverb

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REALLY BEAUTIFUL WORDS

REALLY BEAUTIFUL WORDS

1] Prayer is not a "spare wheel"
that you pull out when in trouble; it is a "steering wheel"
that directs us in the right path throughout life.


2] Do you know why a car's WINDSHIELD is so large & the rear view mirror is so small? Because our PAST is not as important as
our FUTURE. So, look ahead and move on.




3] Friendship is like a BOOK. It takes few seconds to burn, but
it takes years to write.
4] Allthings in life are temporary. If going is well enjoy it, they will
not last forever. If going is wrong don’t worry, they can't
last long either.




5] Old friends are like Gold! New friends are Diamonds! If you get
a Diamond, don't forget the Gold! Because to hold a Diamond,you always need a base of Gold!
6] Often when we lose hope and
think this is the end, GOD smiles from above and says, "Relax, sweetheart, it's just a bend, not
the end!
7] When GOD solves your problems, you have faith in HIS
abilities; when GOD doesn't solve your problems HE has faith
in your abilities.


8] A blind person asked St. Anthony: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?" He
replied: "Yes, losing your vision."
9] When you pray for others, God listens to you and blesses
them; and sometimes, when you are safe and happy, remember
that someone has prayed for you.
10] WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES; it takes away today’s PEACE.



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So We Might As well Dance

It is childish and ignorant to talk of duality and non-duality; the enlightened ones laugh at all this. However, without such a discussion based on duality and non-duality, it is not possible to clean one's consciousness of ignorance.

Yoga Vasishta


A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Bible


We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Japanese Proverb


Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer courts of religion, and the echoes of it should resound in the sanctuary.

Reinhold Niebuhr


Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Surrender To ME

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender
unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful
reaction. Do not fear.

Bhagavad Gita 18: 66

God has put you in the world. What can you
do about it?

Resign everything to Him.
Surrender yourself at His feet.

Then there will be no more confusion.

Then you will realise that it is God
who does everything.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Complete surrender does require that you have no
desire of your own. You must be satisfied with
whatever God gives you and that means having
no desires of your own.

Ramana Maharshi

Linguistically, surrender means to surrender to
somebody, but religiously,
surrender simply means trust, relaxing. It is an
attitude rather than an act: you live through trust.
Osho

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always
been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

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Live Each Day To Its Fullest

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow
a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
Kalidasa, Ushavandanam
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Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the
mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha

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So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough troubles of its own.
Matthew 6:34

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You are either in the past or in the future - both are non-existent. You can`t do anything with the past, nor with the future. All that you can do is with the present, and if you are engaged somewhere else, it simply slips by and you have missed the train.
Osho

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With the past, i have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Think Before You Speak

The disaster-destined
let themselves be
ruled by ego-driven
thoughts, violence,
arrogance, lust and
extreme anger.
Bhagavad Gita 16.18

Those who are clever
in arguments about
Brahmn, but are
without the action
pertaining to Brahmn
(infinite consciousness)
and who are greatly
attached to the world -
those certainly are born
again and again (in this
world) through their
ajnana (ignorance). Tejobindu Upanishad

Calvin : Sometimes
when I'm talking, my
words can't keep up with
my thoughts. I wonder
why we think faster
than we speak.
Hobbes: Probably so we
can think twice.
Bill Watterson,
Calvin & Hobbes

The trouble with
talking too fast
is you may say some-
thing you haven't
thought of yet.
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Do You Know Who You Are ?

The Universe is a multilayered existence; there are many levels: there are the molecular, the atomic and the subatomic levels. So also the human consciousness: though one, yet, it is many.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

He who knows others is learned;

He who knows himself is wise.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Unlike a drop of water that loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of society alone, but for the development of the Self.

B R Ambedkar

Your identity changes with how you perceive reality.

Vithu Jeyaloganathan

All men should strive

to learn before they die

what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Keep Your Cool

One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honour and dishonour; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.
Bhagavad Gita, 6:7
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The strong is not the one who overcomes people by his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger.
Hadith , Sahih Al-Bukhari
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Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it leads only to evil.
Psalm 37:8
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Gautama Buddha
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Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.
Author unknown
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