Assorted Sayings

* If you take time out to reflect on a few experiences you go through each day, you can benefit much in terms of life-skills. Also, this is a great way to spend time.

* A good way to be happy is to appreciate the goodness that exists abundantly around you.

* Your development is premised on your interactions with others. This means that your development and that of others are inter-related, intertwined, interdependent.

* You are where you are presently, not because of chance but because that’s where you are meant precisely to be.

* It is better to be by yourself than to suffer the company of fools.

* Every sentence you utter can be a work of art. Every step you take can be a work of art.

* It is not possessing much material wealth that is wrong. What may be wrong is what you do with it.

* Possess wealth, but don’t be possessed by it.

* I may not know your language, but we can still communicate, and rather well, through the language of love.

* You can grow in wisdom only when you are aware that you don’t know all you need to and are eager to learn. You need both, that awareness and that eagerness.

* Often, we do things not because we really need to but simply because if we didn’t, we might even go mad out of boredom.

* One reason for so much hate in the world is because it is so easy to hate. It requires little effort.

* Love means going beyond yourself.

* Thanks to trashy films and novels, love is widely misunderstood as lust.

* No one else has the ability to make you happy. Only you can make yourself happy, for it is a state of your own mind, not someone else’s.

* The way you view the world shapes the way you experience it.

* Generally, people believe something to be true not because they know it to be true (in which case, they wouldn’t need to believe it to be true), but because they want it to be true.

* Generally, refrain from giving advice unless asked for it.

* Be neither a leader nor a follower. Be simply yourself.

* Miracles do occur, but generally speaking, you can get what you seek only if you put in the required effort.

* Don’t do the ‘good’ you like but what God tells you to.

* At least when old age arrives and the body begins more rapidly to deteriorate, one should realise, and be relieved and rejoice in the realization, that one is not the body.

* Don’t tire yourself out foolishly seeking to save the world.

* Guard your tongue to guard yourself.

* It’s a great blessing that while God gave our face two eyes, two nostrils and two ears, He gave it only one tongue.

* Let the process of the body going back to where its components came from happen unimpeded. It’s a beautiful thing to let it drop that way instead of foolishly trying to prevent the process.

* If you know you’re going to meet God when you leave the body, you may not pine to continue your stay on Earth more than you need to.

* You can’t serve others very long or very effectively if you neglect yourself.

* Foolishly, we’ve been made to feel guilty if we aren’t always engaged in doing some work or the other almost all the time through our walking hours. As if that is all that we came here for.

* Suffer the company of fools at your own peril.

* Pride of knowledge is a sign of ignorance.

* Our firmest opinions about others are often very lopsided.

* Actions, positive and negative, very swiftly are accompanied by their positive or negative consequences for oneself.

* A genuine act of service can win over even a stony heart.

* ‘Big’ deeds of charity cannot substitute for small acts of kindness.

* If you don’t try, you will likely never succeed.

* We don’t ever die. Nothing dies. It’s just the material body going back to Earth, whose elements it is made of.