Thoughts To Cherish

Thoughts To Cherish

· Great beauty, great strength and great riches are really and truly of no great use. A right heart exceeds all.

· When you live close to the graveyard, you can’t weep for everyone.

· The trick in eating crow is to pretend it tastes good.

· Character is what you are in the dark.

· Three groups spend other’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

· Nothing fails like failure and nothing succeeds like success.

· It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

· The greatest curse for a man is to remain a slave. The grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. The highest virtue is to battle against iniquity, no matter what the cost may be.

· If one does not know to which port he is sailing, no wind is favourable.

· Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of fragrance. For it is only in the depth of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

· Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves behind record upon the face as to what became of it.

· Poetry is like a perfume which on evaporation leaves in our soul the essence of beauty.

· A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

· Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

· By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong.

· Happy is the man who has a balanced mind; balance in success and failure. To him success is not success; it is duty discharged. To him failure is not failure; for even that is duty discharged. He has done what had to be done—the appropriate action—in the right spirit. That is one’s duty. Duty discharged is success. Therefore, in a way, it is perennial success, though that success does not belong to him, but to the Lord with whom he is united.

--Swami Vivekananda

-Tanushree Misra (IV SEM)