“These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me,” with such thoughts a fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?
Buddha
All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—’Wait and hope.’
Alexandre Dumas
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s
H. G. Wells
Mules are good, if tamed, and noble Sindhu horses, and elephants with large tusks; but he who tames himself is better still.
Buddha
We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.
Lewis Carroll
If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined to be offended, his own passions will grow, and he is far from the destruction of passions.
Buddha
You see, but you do not observe.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Objects fall away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing behind. But his longing also ceases, who sees the Supreme.
Lord Krishna
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Brontë
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
Jane Austen
Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy. He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.
Buddha
baare duniya mein raho gham-zada ya shaad raho, aisa kuchh kar ke chalo yaan ke bahut yaad raho
Mir Taqi Mir
Noble indeed are they all, but the wise man I regard as My very Self; for with the mind steadfast, he is established in Me alone, as the supreme goal.
Lord Krishna
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Lewis Carroll
The sea itself is one thing, the foam another; neglect the foam, and regard the sea with your eyes.
Rumi
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Conceive the Soul as a fountain, and these created things as rivers: while the Fountain flows, the rivers run from it.
Rumi
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
Charles Dickens
Devotees in the path of work perform action, only with body, mind, senses, and intellect, forsaking attachment, for the purification of the heart.
Lord Krishna
Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Lewis Carroll
The foolish regard Me, the unmanifested, as come into manifestation, not knowing My supreme state—immutable and transcendental.
Lord Krishna
lutf wo ishq mein paaye hain ke ji jaanta hai, ranj bhi aise uthaaye hain ke ji jaanta hai
Daagh Dehlvi
Boldness, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of hatred, absence of pride; these belong to one born for a divine state, O descendant of Bharata.
Lord Krishna
There is no place like home.
L. Frank Baum
If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.
Frances Hodgson Burnett