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Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
Expectation | Peace | Expectation | Happiness |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
An outlaw to Truth is an in-law to pain.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Have no fear to not know where you are going in life.
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
Let us now some nobler things! [marks the transition in a text to a more important subject]
François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
I have explored the seas of the Old World and the New, and trodden the soil of the four quarters of the Earth. Having camped in the cabins of Iroquois, and beneath the tents of Arabs, in the wigwams of Hurons, in the remains of Athens, Jerusalem, Memphis, Carthage, Granada, among Greeks, Turks and Moors, among forests and ruins; after wearing the bearskin cloak of the savage, and the silk caftan of the Mameluke, after suffering poverty, hunger, thirst, and exile, I have sat, a minister and ambassador, covered with gold lace, gaudy with ribbons and decorations, at the table of kings, the feasts of princes and princesses, only to fall once more into indigence and know imprisonment.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Peace | Prosperity |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
We must expose ourselves fully to life's experiences. Nothing is discovered in isolation, any more than a rainbow is discovered in a closet. To harmonize with life we must be with it altogether, without resistance, with no concern for what it may bring us.
Feelings |
François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
A weakness natural to superior and to little men, when they have committed a fault, is to wish to make it pass as a work of genius, a vast combination which the vulgar cannot comprehend. Pride says these things and folly credits them.
If a householder molds himself according to the circumstances just like nature molds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. One who does this successfully gains in all walks of life.
By practicing concentration the mind can be made stable. A stable mind helps in taking right decisions and achieving the desired result.
Pay no heed to little worries; attach your mind to the Lord and then you will be led to the Company of good men and your talents will be transmuted.
Peace |