A Thought for Today-146:

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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth, and too small for anything but love – Chennai Times, Oct.16, 2008.

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A Thought for Today-145:

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When the young behave badly, it is because society has already behaved worse. We have the teenagers, like the politicians and the wars that we deserve – J.B.Priestly.

A Thought for Today-145:

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The Secret of Inner Peace is a Healthy Life: Exercising Regularly, Eating Properly, Breathing Deeply. – J.Donald Waters

A Thought for Today-144:

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact – William James

A Thought for Today-143:

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Unity is the test of truth. Everything that makes for Oneness is truth. Love is truth, and hatred is false, because hatred makes for multiplicity. It is a disintegrating power – Swami Vivekananda

A Thought for Today-142:

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The poison generated by hatred could kill twenty persons. When hate somebody you are poisoning yourself. So in your own interest, don’t hate anybody - Unknown

A Thought for Today-129:

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Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A Thought for Today-128:

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited – Plutarch.

A Thought for Today-127:

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Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous – Goethe.

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Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart –

Steve Jobs

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All our dreams can come true –

if we have the courage to pursue them –

Walt Disney

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Give pleasure. Lose no chance in giving pleasure. For that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit – Henry Drummond.

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle – Albert Einstein (Grateful thanks to Vinod for the photograph).

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The Law of Reversion to Type runs through all creation. If a man neglects himself for a few years, he will change into a worse and a lower man. If it is his body he neglects, he will deteriorate into a wild and bestial savage. If it is his mind, it will degenerate into imbecility and madness. If he neglects his conscience, it will run off into lawlessness and vice. Or, lastly, if it is his soul, it must inevitably atrophy, drop off in ruin and decay – Henry Drummond (Thanks to Vinod for the photo)

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I have learned to keep looking ahead. There are still so many good books to read, sunsets to see, friends to visit, and old dogs to take walks with. (An 86-year-old man)
Courtesy: ‘Live and Learn and Pass it on’ – Compiled by H.Jackson Brown Jr. – Published by BPB Publications, New Delhi
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If we did the things we are capable of,

we would astound ourselves – Thomas Alva Edison

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Public-Domain-Photos.com

for freely providing the above photo.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil – Cicero

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A Thought for Today-185: December 26, 2007

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves – Thornton Wilder

A Thought for Today-184: December 25, 2007

Life has a meaning, our birth has a meaning: that meaning is to realize in ourselves, in each one of us, something of God, to express in our daily life something that is associated with God, knowledge, kindness, benevolence, purity and happiness. – M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry

A Thought for Today-183: December 24, 2007

Unstable emotions not only disturb our own state of mind, they also disturb the minds of others – His Holiness The Dalai Lama

A Thought for Today-182: December 23, 2007

The more we are able to develop an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the better the atmosphere we will create around us. – His Holiness, The Dalai Lama

A Thought for Today-181: December 22, 2007

Life is not meant to be somehow lived. It is to be geared to one central purpose if one is to achieve anything at all. – M.P.Pandit, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry

A Thought for Today-180: December 21, 2007

Evolution is always experimental. All progress is gained through mistakes and their rectification. No good comes fully fashioned, out of God’s hand, but has to be carved out through repeated experiments and repeated failures by ourselves. This is the law of individual growth. – Gandhiji

A Thought for Today-179: December 20, 2007

To be conscious is the first step towards overcoming – Sri Aurobindo

A Thought for Today=178: December 19, 2007

Happiness means that our life is rhythmic and harmonious – Swami Paramananda

A Thought for Today-177: December 18, 2007

Happiness lives clothed in the garb of work – Swami Rama Tirtha

A Thought for Today-176: December 17, 2007

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, but to love wisdom and live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust – Henry David Thoreau

A Thought for Today-175: December 16, 2007

That which is inherent in man is his virtue – Gandhiji

A Thought for Today-174: December 15, 2007

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy – Angelina Jolie

A Thought for Today-173: December 14, 2007

Life is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom – Greek adage