Quotable Quotes Part II

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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WATER AND THE WORDS OF WISDOM.

The well grown ears of grains bend down while the worthless chaff stands upright! The heavier side of the scale moves down while the lighter side moves up.

The branch of the tree laden with many fruits bends down under their weight while the branch which has no fruits is rigid and straight.

The heavy gold chunk sinks to the bottom of water while the lighter wooden block floats on the surface of water.

The humble people are the honorable people. They can be compared to the low lying areas which can store water. The high lying areas cannot store the water.

The upadesam of a satguru is like the rain and falls equally on everyone-without exhibiting any partiality. If the person is humble and has the right mental make up, the upadesams are stored there and he benefits from them. The proud and the conceited mind is like the high ground and lets the upedesam run away from it.

A person must be humble in his heart. But he should not be a coward either. Humility is different from cowardice!! One should be humble in disposition and yet bold in what he stands for. A tiny grass withstands storms while the well grown strong trees get uprooted in the storm.

It is wise to develop a humble disposition so that our mind can collect , store, absorb and benefit from the words of wisdom of mahaans. It will help us to live a peaceful and useful life .

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit

Aristotle

Practice makes perfect. :juggle:

Perfection is excellence. :first:

Excelence becomes a habit. :thumb:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Hindu philosphy packs all these seven causes in just two
namely the ruchi and the vaasanaa of the person! :clap2:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”

Stephen R. Covey

Desire to do a thing leads to acquiring the required knowledge.

Employing the acquired knowledge leads to habit (as seen earlier)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”

John Dryden

First We make the habits is O.K!
Then habits make us or mar us is double OK!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tryon Edwards

Again reduced to just three steps

in our crystallized Hindu philosphy.

manam => mozhi => meippaadu.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Right is what that benefits the people!
-Hitler.

Right is what that benefits the party!
-Stalin.

Hitler's action did not benefit the people.
So he did not act right.

I doubt whether Stalins' actions benefitted his party.
So he too did not act right.

Common man's philosophy.

Whatever benefits ME is right!

Whatever causes me a loss is wrong!

Cool isn't it!

One more cool fact.

Two wrongs do not make a right. :nono:

How come three lefts make a right then???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Perfection

Human beings are not perfectible. :nono:
They are improbable. :whoo:
Eric Severeid

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream,
do so because they feel that it is one which would afford
no pleasure if it were realized.
John Stuart Mill.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Perfection

The desire of perfection is the worst disease
that ever afflicted the human mind. :whoo:
Louis De Fontanes

No perfection is so absolute
That some impurity doth not pollute. :nono:
William Shakespeare.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Perfection

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the
pursuit of sweetness and light. eace:
Matthew Arnold.

Trifles make perfection and :moony:
perfection is no trifle. :nono:
Michelangelo

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

It is the slight dash of color, the right choice of words,
the correct pitch of the music that differentiates
the perfect from the not-so-perfect mediocre.
Anon

P.S.
Encouraged by the words of Shree. K.B. (who forms the standard unit of my
like-o-meter) I will be including some quotes by Mr. Anonymous as well as by
Mrs. Anonymous in the future.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Idioms and Idiots do not really mix well...
despite sharing 5 out of 6 letters in them.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Curse is the other side of Boon in the Coin of Fortune.

A curse lurks in every boon and a boon in every curse.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Mix with the mob and
you will get mobbed!

Solitude is preferable to the company of
people lacking sensitivity and sensibility.

When people have shown their true colors,
they neither exhibit nor expect pretenses.

Anonymous

 

[manoharkumar]

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - ~Nelson Mandela~

 

[manoharkumar]

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - ~Nelson Mandela~

He is the proof - if proof were needed!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

One person CAN make a difference.

Mother Teresa is an ideal example.

Leaders are good in talking and brainwashing people.

They approach every problem with a open MOUTH and

not an open mind the way it should be!

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

Quotes of Swami Vivekananda


Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries forever.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
Sympathy for the poor, the downtrodden, even unto death-this is our motto.
Great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.

What India wants is a new electric fire to stir up a fresh vigour in the national veins.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

It is fear that is the great cause of our woes.

Doing good to others is virtue, injuring others is sin.



Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[vgane]

There is no substitute for hard work

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)


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[vgane]

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

 

[vgane]

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence


Colin Powell (1937- )​

 

[vgane]

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher (1925- )

 

[vgane]

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.

Michelangelo (1475-1564)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

There is no substitute for hard work

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

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The heights by great men reached and kept

Were not attained by sudden flight;

But they, while their companions slept,

Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.


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