For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

~ Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

~Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

~ Dalai Lama

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

~ Kabir , reformer , poet ( late 15th Century )

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863)

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

~Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese proverb. You build toughness by doing.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

~ Gloria Steinem

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Today we will not just be like Gandhiji, but if the government doesn’t accept the peoples demands, we will become like Chhatrapati Shivaji !!!

~ Anna Hazare

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

~ Jean Cocteau, author and painter (1889-1963)

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

~Saadi, poet (c. 1213-1291)

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

~ Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.

~ Robert Cecil, British prime minister (1830-1903)

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

~Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

~Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (1875 -1965)

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)

Whatever steps, however small, one can take towards learning to reduce the influence of the negative emotions can be very helpful.

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.


~Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673)

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.


~William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

~John Maxwell

If you are brave to say "good bye", life will reward you with a new "hello".

~ Paulo Coelho