| Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. |
| The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. |
| I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. |
| Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. |
| One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both. |
| I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. |
| You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. |
| I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. |
| Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. |
| I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down. |
| You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. |
| You can lose everything in life, but not dreams. |
| If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. |
| You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. |
| You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry. |
| In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years. |
Friday, 12 October 2018
Reading Quotes Collection | Quotsagram
| Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. -Hazel Rochman |
| Think before you speak. Read before you think. -Fran Lebowitz |
| Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. -Diane Duane |
| There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -Joseph Brodsky |
| Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. -Voltaire |
| You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -Ray Bradbury |
| No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books. -Romain Rolland |
| I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -Groucho marx |
| If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. -Toni Morrison |
| Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. -Joyce Carol Oates |
| It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. -Oscar Wilde |
| The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read. -Mark Twain |
| Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. -Annie Proulx |
| Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. -Nora Ephron |
| Never make fun of someone, if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it it by reading. -Anonymous |
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Abraham Hicks Quotes Collection | Quotsagram
| You can’t watch out for bad things and allow good things at the same time. It is vibrationally not possible. |
| There is nothing you cannot be, do or have. |
| The greatest thing you can give yourself is freedom from what others think. |
| Dollars are not the root of happiness, but they are not the root of evil either. They are the result of how somebody lines up the energy. |
| If you’re not excited about it, it’s not the right path. |
| Everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything. |
| When you focus on the good, the good gets better. |
| Your choice of action may be limited, but your choice of thought are not. |
| The closer you are to alignment with what you want, the calmer it feels. |
| You will know your path by the fun of it. |
| Your vortex is pregnant with everything you want. |
| Find something that makes you happy and fixate on it. That is the answer to all things. It’s the answer to getting everything that you want. |
| Appreciation in advance brings everything you want, to you. |
| The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel. |
| Let go of the oars… everything you want is downstream. |
| Expectation is the most powerful condition that you can accomplish, because an expectation is a holding of a desire, a clear desire, and a belief about the same thing at the same time. |
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Philosophical Quotes about Smile | Quotsagram
| A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. -Phyllis Diller |
| Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. -George Carlin |
| A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. -Charles Gordy |
| If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. -Maya Angelou |
| All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. -Chris Hart |
| If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. -Les Giblin |
| Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. -John Ray |
| A smile is the universal welcome. -Max Eastman |
| Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. -Anthony J DAngelo |
| A laugh is a smile that bursts. -Mary H Waldrip |
| Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. -Lawrence G Lovasik |
| The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery. -Allen Klein |
| You're never fully dressed without a smile. -Martin Charnin |
| A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. -Roy T. Bennett |
| People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. -Lee Mildon |
| Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. -Mother Teresa |
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Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes Collection | Quotsagram (3)
| To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. |
| The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself. |
| Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. |
| If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. |
| The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. |
| At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. |
| People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. |
| Because you are alive, everything is possible. |
| There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. |
| You don’t need to die in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. In fact, you have to be truly alive in order to do so. |
| Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves– slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. |
| To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. |
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Albert Camus Quotes Collection | Quotsagram
| The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. |
| The habit of despair is worse than despair itself. |
| In the midst of winter, I finally learned that in me, there was an invincible summer. |
| People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. |
| Having money is a way of being free of money. |
| I only know of one duty and that is to love. |
| You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. |
| A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. |
| Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. |
| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. |
| By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. |
| Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. |
| Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. |
| There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. |
| A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. |
| Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. |
| Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. |
| Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. |
| The school prepares us for life in the world that does not exist. |
| It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. |
| All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. |
| Solitude is the luxury of the rich. |
| The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. |
Swami Vivekanand Quotes Collection | Quotsagram
| We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live. They travel far. |
| The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. |
| You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. |
| Cowards only sin, brave men never. No, not even in mind. |
| Condemn none; if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. |
| Have faith in yourselves, stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. |
| Oh, if only you knew yourselves! you are souls; you are gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man. |
| You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, None can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. |
| If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. |
| God is to be worshiped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. |
| All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. |
| If superstition enters, the brain leaves. |
| Calm and silent, and steady work, no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. |
| Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it. |
| Be not afraid, for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. |
| Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. |
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Young Age-Old Age Quotes Collection | Quotsagram
| Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old days. -Leonardo da Vinci |
| Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. -Eleanor Roosevelt |
| The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde |
| The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain |
| It’s amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again. -DeWayne Owens |
| The good thing about being old is not being young. -Stephen Richards |
| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. -Victor Hugo |
| What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew. -Robert Browning |
| At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. -Ann Landers |
| It is good to obey all the rules when you're young, so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. -Mark Twain |
| Young people tell you what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. -French Proverb |
| In youth we learn; in age we understand. -Ebner-Eschenbach |
| Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec |
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Thursday, 11 October 2018
Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes Collection | Quotsagram (2)
| The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. |
| Never underestimate the power of a kind word, a touch, or a smile. |
| Walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth, and not anxiety and sorrow. |
| The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water. |
| For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. |
| Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves. |
| We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. |
| If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. |
| Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world. |
| Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. |
| When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. |
| Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos- the trees, the clouds, everything. |
| Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. |
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Philosophical Quotes about Chess | Quotsagram
| Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. -Blaise Pascal |
| Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. -Albert Einstein |
| Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. -Ralph Charell |
| The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chess board. -Simon Williams |
| Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win. -Jennifer Shahade |
| Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when in you're trouble. -Stanley Kubrick |
| During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey. -Alexander Alekhine |
| Help your pieces so they can help you. -Paul Morphy |
| If cunning alone were needed to excel, women would be the best chess players. -Adolf Albin |
| If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. -Nigel Short |
| If the student forces himself to examine all the moves that smite, however absurd they look at first glance, he is on the way to becoming a master of tactics. -Cecil Purdy |
| If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure. -Garry Kasparov |
| In chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth. -Edmar Mednis |
| If a mistake or an inaccuracy occurs, there is no need to assume 'all is lost' and mope; one must reorient oneself quickly, and find a new plan to fit the new situation. -David Bronstein |
| It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan. -Eugene Znosko-Borovsky |
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Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes | Quotsagram
| You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. |
| When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible. |
| When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending. |
| People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle. |
| Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful. |
| My actions are my only true belongings. |
| Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late. |
| The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. |
| If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. |
| In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand. |
| Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. |
| There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is. |
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Monday, 8 October 2018
Popular Quotes on Sachin Tendulkar by others | Quotsagram
| There are two kinds of batsmen in the world. One, Sachin Tendulkar. Two, all the others. -Andy Flower |
| I have seen God, he bats at number 4 for India. -Matthew Hayden |
| He’s been in form longer than some of our guys have been alive. -Daniel Vettori |
| Sachin Tendulkar, the Little Master, is so talented that wherever you’re from, you can’t help but admire him as he hits another century. -David Cameron (former UK Prime Minister) |
| Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time. -Wasim Akram |
| When you play against Tendulkar, you almost want to see him get a few runs just to see him bat. -Mark Waugh |
| The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar. -Brian Lara |
| There is no better sight on the cricket field than watching Tendulkar bat. -Harsha Bhogle |
| Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching. -(Found on a placard at the Sydney Cricket Ground) |
| If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard. - Dennis Lillee |
| On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt at one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing a century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This genius can stop time in India! -Peter Roebuck |
| We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will. -TIME magazine |
