Great Quotes by Great People

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness therefore that I can show to any living being, let me do now & not defer or neglect it, for I may not pass this way again." - Siddhartha or Gautama Buddha


"Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth. A trusted friend is the best relative. Liberated mind is the greatest bliss." - Siddhartha or Gautama Buddha


"He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool." - Hippocrates (460BC - 380 BC), Father of Medicine

 

“Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato

"Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao-Tse

“Make yourself an honest man & then you may be sure there is 1 rascal less in the world” - Thomas Carlyle

"My brain is only a receiver, In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, & inspiration. I've not penetrated into the secrets of this core but I know that it exists" - Nikola Tesla


"The greatness of a nation & its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One doesn't become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." - Carl Gustav Jung

“Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!” - Albert Einstein

 

"Only a life lived for others is a worthwhile. It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service." - Albert Einstein

"Science without Religion Is Lame, Religion without Science Is Blind" - Albert Einstein

 

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex & more violent. It takes a touch of genius-& a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple & unassuming manner of life is the best for everyone, best for the body & the mind." - Albert Einstein

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift & the rational mind is a faithful servant. We've created a society that honours the servant & has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

 

"The only force that is more powerful than vapour, electricity & atomic energy is human will.’ - Albert Einstein

"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence doesn't belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind." - J. Krishnamurti

“All of us are surrounded by people who need understanding & love. When you give that, you will receive it in return. The two most powerful healing forces in human relations are understanding & love. They work wonders” -  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"Poverty isn't accident. Like slavery & apartheid, it's man-made & can be removed by the actions of human beings." - Nelson Mandela 

"Live with Love in Love for Love."- Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai

"Love all, Serve all. Help Ever Hurt Never" - Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai

“You need not oblige always. But you can speak always obligingly.” - Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai

“Prayer is to the mind what food is to the body” - Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai

 

“The measure of your Enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with Paradox, Contradiction & Ambiguity.” - Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai

“I’m not a body a mass of flesh bones & blood. I’m not the mind a bundle of wasteful desires manifest & unmanifest. I’m not the feeling of infatuation that obstructs my way to libration. I’m the eternal parmatman who is aware of the power.” - Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai

"Patience & the ability to forgive ('shama') are the largest power of a human being. Only those who are full of 'shama' has Sacred Love. If you lose this quality becomes demonic. This virtue can not be learned in textbooks, nor can it be learned from tutors, it can only be grown in the periods in which they must forced to face difficulties. When you are confronted by problems we must not alter nor should you become a victim of depression. You are the embodiment of strength not weakness. In periods of despair, cultivate the attitude of tolerance & be ready to forgive & forget." - Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai


"Remember always that it is easy to do what is pleasant; but it is difficult to be engaged in what is beneficial. Not all that is pleasant is profitable. Success comes to those who give up the path strewn with roses, and brave the hammer blows and the sword-thrusts of the path fraught with danger. As a matter of fact, no road is strewn with rose-petals. Life is a battlefield: a Dharmakshetra, where duties and desires are always in conflict. Smother the fiery fumes of Desire, Hatred and Anger, that rise up in your hearts. It is sheer cowardice to yield to turn you into beasts." - Bhagwan Shri Sathya Sai


"Love is the fruit of life. A fruit has three components: the skin, the juicy kernel and the seed. To experience the sweetness of the fruit, we have to first remove the skin. The skin represents egoism, the 'I' feeling which excludes, limits and individualises. The seed represents selfishness, the feeling of 'mine' which is possessive and greedy. This too has to be discarded. What remains is the sweet juice, the rasa, which the Upanishads describe as Divine, the Love Supreme." - Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation & five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” - Warren Buffett

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters." - Alan K. Simpson

"Difficulties in your life don't come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential & power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult" - Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

"Friendship has coolness in it. Love has heat hence it goes high, low; sometimes beautiful & sometimes everything ugly. Love changes. Friendship has a more eternal quality to it; it doesn't change. Let love be the first step & friendship the climax." - Rajneesh Osho

"I think human nature is basically good: though we have jealousy & hatred, our dominant characteristics seem to be affection & kindness." - Dalai Lama


"The planet doesn't need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more pacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, & lovers of all kinds." - Dalai Lama

Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer - Stephen Hawking (BBC News, January 16, 2002)

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity & his ability to affect those around him positively. Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold." - Bob Marley

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley

“I hope you’ll judge yourself not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you’ve addressed the world’s deepest inequities. On how well you treated people a world away who’ve nothing in common with you but your humanity” - Bill Gates

"Whatever I own is only temporary. It's our actions that have real value" - Nicolas Berggruen

“The secret for a weary world is still the gift of laughter, freedom from stress & anxiety. No matter how many vitamins you may consume, they’ll never make you healthy as the ingredient of a sense of humour & a relaxed mental state.” - Gloria Pitzer

"They may be smarter than you. They may have more money than you. They may come from a different city or a better family. But they can NEVER outwork you. And they can NEVER outprepare you. And they just can't outpractice you. And that's why you'll win." - Robin Sharma

"There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out." - A.R. Rehman

“I come from a country & civilisation that gave the world the word that precedes silence & is followed by more silence. That word is ‘OM’. So I dedicate this award to my country.” - Resul Pookutty (When he won an Oscar for best Sound Mixing on 22 Feb 2009 for Slumdog Millionaire)

 

“Every time we witness an injustice & do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence & thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves & those we love." - Julian Assange

“Murder, violence, greed, anger & temptation has made the human world a desperate place. A terrible storm has descended upon the human world, & this is carrying the world towards destruction. There is only one way to save the world & that is through ‘dharma” (religious practice.) When one doesn’t walk the righteous path of religious practice, this desperate world will surely be destroyed.” - Ram Bahadur Bomjon