Philosophy of Life

“Since every human being is unique by virtue of his molecular ( DNA)printout, the code of enlightenment, if there is any, would be unique to each individual.”

Destiny and the Law of Karma

Destiny & Law of Karma

Some of us believe that we have full control over our lives. However, this may not be entirely true. Destiny or fate plays a very important role in our lives irrespective of our gender, race, religion, nationality etc. To explain the concept of destiny, we need to understand what destiny is. The popular western view is that we are in control of our lives and everything that happens to us is because of our own choice. On the other hand, the popular eastern view is that not every thing that happens to us is under our control and that we are nothing but puppets in a preordained plan.

However, neither of these views is completely correct. According to the science of Spirituality, in the current times 65% of our lives are ruled by Destiny and 35% by willful action. However, we can overcome the 65% of the Destiny part, by using the 35% of our willful action to undertake the correct spiritual practice.

Destiny is when one has no control over life situations. Willful action is that portion of one’s life, which is still under one’s control.

An example of willful action: Let us take an example of a person who is drunk and has a poorly maintained car. In this state he decides to drive his car down a steep mountainside, crossing speed limits. He loses control of his car and skids off the road down the mountainside. Would that be an accident caused by destiny or willful action? It would be due to his willful action and not due to Destiny as he could have chosen not to drink and drive. He also had the option of keeping his car well maintained and could have driven it within the speed limits.

An example of an event influenced by destiny: Let us take another example wherein the person does not drink, drives his well-maintained car carefully, down the same mountainside within speed limits. All of a sudden, a portion of the road collapses due to a landslide and he meets with an accident. In this case, the person had no control over the landslide that occurred and hence this is a destined event.

Destiny heavily influences many aspects of our lives, such as the decisions that we make, with whom we spend our lives etc. All major events in our life such as birth, marriage, major illnesses, accidents and death are pre-destined.

Now, let us see why and how Destiny is created by us.

Destiny and the rule of Give-and-Take

According to the ‘Law of Karma’, every positive deed generates a ‘merit’ while every negative deed generates a ‘demerit’ or a sin. Subsequently one has to reap the results of one’s deeds as a part of destiny. Whenever one does a good deed to others, it is bound to give a positive return (in the form of some happiness). Whenever one inflicts harm, it is bound to give a negative return in the form of sorrow in some form. It cannot be undone by a simple ‘Sorry’! The ‘law of Karma’ is infallible. Throughout our lives, we are either settling an old account i.e. fulfilling our destiny, or creating a new one. If for some reason, the account cannot be settled in this birth, it gets carried over to the next birth. We are not consciously aware of the give-and-take accounts or the destiny that is generated in our previous births.

All major events in our lives such as the time and place of birth, our spouse, death, etc. occur as planned in our Destiny. One is born into a particular family, where conditions are conducive to undergo one’s destiny and where one has a significant give-and-take account with each member of the family. In addition, one also has a different give-and-take account with different individuals with whom one comes across such as relatives, close friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc.

If we continue to use our willful actions without undertaking spiritual practice then we will keep accumulating a give and take account thus increasing our destiny, and our spiritual growth will stagnate. This will keep us trapped in the vicious cycle of birth and death and away from the basic objective of achieving Liberation.

As Destiny is a spiritual root cause of difficulties in our life, we can nullify or reduce the effects of destiny only by undertaking the spiritual practice most conducive to the times. This is because destiny is completely a spiritual aspect, and can be overcome only with a spiritual remedy, which is undertaking spiritual practice as per the basic principles of Spirituality.

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Famous Quotes#5

        It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
-- Eddie Cantor

        You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
        I don't even know what street Canada is on.
        -- Al Capone

        If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

        -- Thomas Carlyle

        No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie


        Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
        -- Dale Carnegie

        A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
        -- Rosalynn Carter

        The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

        -- Carlos Castaneda


               As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett


        Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
        -- Viscount Cecil

      Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
        -- Charles A. Cerami


        Learn and think imperially.
        -- Joseph Chamberlian

        It is better to wear out than to rust out.
        -- Richard Chamberland

        Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
        -- Kyle Chandler
       
        The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
-- W. E. Channing

        Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
        -- Maurice Chevalier

        Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."
        -T'ao Ch'ien

        Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
        -- Chilton

        He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
        If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
        The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
        -- Chinese Proverb

               I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
        Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few
        Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
        Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´
        We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
        Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
        The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
        Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
        I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
        Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
        Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
        The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
        By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
        It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
        Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
        Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
        The price of greatness is responsibility.
        I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

        Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
        In time of war the law falls silent
        -- Cicero

        Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
        -- Arthur C Clarke

        There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on
        the same one."
        --Frances Clark


        America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
        -- Georges Clemenceau
               Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
-- Mark A. Clement

               Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
-- Peter Cochrane


        Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
        -- Samuel Coleridge
       
        When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

        I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
        Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
        -- Confucius

        Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
        No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
        -- Calvin Coolidge


        Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.
        -- Todd Coomber

        Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.
        -- Chad Coombs
       
        Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.
-- Michael Corleone
       
        I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
       
        Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-- E. Joseph Cossman

        While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
        -- Stephen Covey


        The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
        -- Thomas Cowan

        Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
        -- George Crane

        One never notices what has been done.  one can only see what remains to be done

        -- Marie Curie

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all ot  
her alternatives.

Abba Eban

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
– Tryon Edwards
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

-- Thomas A. Edison

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world
Imagination is more important than knowledge
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
The important thing is not to stop questioning
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a
prisoner's chains.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let
them have it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-- T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its
members.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
A man is known by the books he reads.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

-- Epictetus

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

-- Desiderius Erasmus

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

-- John Erskine

Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

-- Susan Ertz

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

-- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

-- Euripides

Famous Quote #6

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

-- Eddie Cantor

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

-- Al Capone

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

-- Thomas Carlyle

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

-- Andrew Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

-- Dale Carnegie



A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

-- Rosalynn Carter



The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

-- Carlos Castaneda









It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

-- Eddie Cantor



You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

-- Al Capone



If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

-- Thomas Carlyle

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

-- Andrew Carnegie





Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

-- Dale Carnegie



A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

-- Rosalynn Carter



The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

-- Carlos Castaneda





As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

-- Dick Cavett





Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

-- Viscount Cecil

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

-- Charles A. Cerami





Learn and think imperially.

-- Joseph Chamberlian



It is better to wear out than to rust out.

-- Richard Chamberland



Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

-- Kyle Chandler



The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

-- W. E. Channing



Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

-- Maurice Chevalier



Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."

-T'ao Ch'ien

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

-- Chilton



He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

-- Chinese Proverb



I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat

Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

In time of war the law falls silent

-- Cicero



Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-- Arthur C Clarke



There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on

the same one."

--Frances Clark





America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

-- Georges Clemenceau

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

-- Mark A. Clement



Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

-- Peter Cochrane





Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

-- Samuel Coleridge



When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

-- Confucius



Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

-- Calvin Coolidge





Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.

-- Todd Coomber



Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.

-- Chad Coombs



Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.

-- Michael Corleone



I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

-- Bill Cosby



Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

-- E. Joseph Cossman

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

-- Stephen Covey





The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

-- Thomas Cowan



Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

-- George Crane

One never notices what has been done. one can only see what remains to be done

-- Marie Curie



History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all ot

her alternatives.

Abba Eban



Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

– Tryon Edwards

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.



-- Thomas A. Edison



For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world

Imagination is more important than knowledge

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough

The important thing is not to stop questioning

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.



-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)





We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a

prisoner's chains.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let

them have it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

-- T.S. Eliot

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

-- Walter Elliott

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its

members.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

A man is known by the books he reads.



-- Dwight D. Eisenhower



We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

-- Epictetus





War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

-- Desiderius Erasmus





There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

-- John Erskine



Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

-- Susan Ertz




In youth we learn; in age we understand.

-- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

-- Euripides





As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

-- Dick Cavett





Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

-- Viscount Cecil

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

-- Charles A. Cerami





Learn and think imperially.

-- Joseph Chamberlian



It is better to wear out than to rust out.

-- Richard Chamberland



Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

-- Kyle Chandler



The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

-- W. E. Channing



Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

-- Maurice Chevalier



Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."

-T'ao Ch'ien

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

-- Chilton



He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

-- Chinese Proverb



I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat

Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour´

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

In time of war the law falls silent

-- Cicero



Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-- Arthur C Clarke



There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on

the same one."

--Frances Clark





America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

-- Georges Clemenceau

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

-- Mark A. Clement



Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

-- Peter Cochrane





Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

-- Samuel Coleridge



When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

-- Confucius



Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

-- Calvin Coolidge





Good looks open doors, but they don't keep you in the room.

-- Todd Coomber



Memories of today, brings legends for tomorrow.

-- Chad Coombs



Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment.

-- Michael Corleone



I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

-- Bill Cosby



Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

-- E. Joseph Cossman

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

-- Stephen Covey





The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

-- Thomas Cowan



Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

-- George Crane

One never notices what has been done. one can only see what remains to be done

-- Marie Curie



History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all ot

her alternatives.

Abba Eban



Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

– Tryon Edwards

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.



-- Thomas A. Edison



For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world

Imagination is more important than knowledge

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough

The important thing is not to stop questioning

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.



-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)





We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a

prisoner's chains.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let

them have it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

-- T.S. Eliot

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

-- Walter Elliott

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its

members.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

A man is known by the books he reads.



-- Dwight D. Eisenhower



We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

-- Epictetus





War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

-- Desiderius Erasmus





There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

-- John Erskine



Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

-- Susan Ertz





In youth we learn; in age we understand.

-- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

-- Euripides