Quotable Quotes Part II

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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One has to make a resolution in life that one must try
to keep above petty things without magnifying it.

Petty things as well as pretty things

depend on the importance we give to them!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion
because it embraces all others.

Shri Aurabindo

Hinduism is NOT a religion but the right way of living.

No wonder it can embrace any other religion

which preaches personal virtue and pure living. :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

Petty things make little people angry! eh?

Henceforth I won't let anything less than

the size of an elephant make me get angry! :becky:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

It always seems impossible until it's done.- Nelson Mandela

Everything seems impossible until we decide to do it.

 

[sarasa]

“What is the use of living, if it not be to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”


— Winston Churchill (speech in Dundee, 1908)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

You may likely be deceived if you trust too much a person, but
there is also a possibility that you may live in Vedana if you don't
have enough trust.

It is better to trust and get cheated than :spy:

not trust and live in perpetual suspicion! :suspicious:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Your likes and dislikes are not to be suppressed, stifled or strangled. Your intellect has only to examine and deal with them appropriately.' A. Parthasarathy, The Fall of the Human Intellect, Chapter 8

I KNOW about the strangling feeling when

we are denied the liberty to do what we love doing most -

considering that it is neither illegal nor immoral!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze; but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere.

Ramayana

Human virtue DOES NOT need a

medium or an agent to convey or carry it.

That is why the blind can SEE our kindness

and the deaf can HEAR our kindness. :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

And the secret of survival is

the ability to adapt to the changes! :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

As birds are made to fly and rivers to run, so the soul to follow duty

Ramayanam

But we also have flightless birds,

flying fish and squirrels,

rivers of sand devoid of any water.

Are these due to the effect of KALI YUGAM??? :noidea:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Those who have knowledge of Dharma say that
Truth is the highest Dharma.
Ramayanam

Satyam is ahimsa!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

As a man determines, so he becomes

We become what we eat.

We become what we think.

So extra care should be taken to see that

the wrong things do not enter into our system.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

You have been blessed with a human birth, which is difficult to attain.
Don't waste the precious moments of your life in pursuit of sensual
pleasures.


Adi Shankara

Looking at the exploding population

I doubt whether it is really dificult

to be born as a human being.

I agree that is difficult to be born as

A GOOD HUMAN BEING!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Disturbed mind can never achieve success in life.

A disturbed can successfully disturb more minds!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I am sure two persons missed me most :spy:+ :spy:

not knowing what to do with their spare time!!! :bored:

Well I am back to you keep on your toes- as before!!!:roll:

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

Sorrow is in fact better than fear. Fear becomes a persistant
event and it turns into a intolerable one at times, while sorrow is
only is an indication of a happening.

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma. But competition in another’s dharma breeds fear and insecurity.


Bagavad Gita

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

The main cause of unsuccessful or unhappiness in life is nothing
but tantamount to a trading similar to market, i.e. what one
wants most in a particular moment.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Sorrow is in fact better than fear. Fear becomes a persistant
event and it turns into a intolerable one at times, while sorrow is
only is an indication of a happening.

FEAR is the feeling before losing a thing!:fear:

Sorrow is the feeling after having lost it!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma. But competition in another’s dharma breeds fear and insecurity.

Bagavad Gita

With the destruction of vernaasramam

everybody is doing everything.

Small wonder that the whole world

is feeling so insecure and frightened!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The main cause of unsuccessful or unhappiness in life is nothing
but tantamount to a trading similar to market, i.e. what one
wants most in a particular moment.

People are ready to part with their soul

or at least an arm and a leg to get what they want!

 

[mkrishna100]

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. —Gautama Buddha

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Lord Krishna says in Bhavgavat Gita,

Man is his own friend and man is his own enemy.

( 6th sloka in the 6th chapter)

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

One can have old memories but one think of fresh rejuvenating hopes.

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

The shadow of a person in life is caused by standing in
his/her own sunshine.