quotes

It is by a constant inner growth that one can find a constant newness and unfailing interest in life. There is no other satisfying way. - Sri Aurobindo

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Give as the rose gives perfume, because it is its own nature, utterly unconscious of giving

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The Universe rearranges itself to fit your perception of reality
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The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had..
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Happiness is crazy arithmetic. It multiplies when you divide it
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Live life while making the hours count and not by counting the hours
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When u r dealing with a game of odds, persistence is obviously the key to eventually winning. And persistence is under ur control
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Good judgment comes from bad experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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Wise Men talk because they have something to say; fools becasue they have to say something. - Plato
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Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.
robs you of innocence
does not bring joy
-- Sri sri ravishankar
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If you are afraid of humiliation, you can neither make progress in material life nor in your spritual life. When you are commited to truth and not to you ego, then you also do not feel humiliated. --SSRS
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If I am humble, I am not honest
If I am honest, I am not humble. --SSRS
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You get pleasure from an object or a person only when you desire them. Desire for truth removes all other desires; it dissolves that and what remmains is bliss. --SSRS
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You are with the guru because you belong to the guru. There is no choice. -SSRS
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The more intentions you have, the more "in tension" you will be. To minimize your intentions could be your last intentions.
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Aggresion as a way to overcome depression :

Aggresion is the antidote to depression.
Depression set in if there is a lack of zeal to fight.
Depression is the lack of energy; anger and
aggresion are a bolt of energy.

If you are depressed, do not take prozac - just fight for any cause.
If aggression corsses a certain limit, it leads you back into depression. That is what happened iwth King Ashoka who won the Kalinga war but became depressed. He had to take refuge in Buddha.
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How can you alwyas be happy? Forget about "always," then you will be happy.
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In always wanting to be comfortable, one becomes lazy.
In always wanting perfection, one becomes angry.
In always wanting to be rich, one becomes greedy.
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Fear comes when we do not realize that only life is for always.
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The mind goes on trying to find support for its negativity. It looks for a hook on which to hang its negativity.

If he is unwilling to see anything negative, then turn the negative into a positive. Call illiteracy an opportunity not a blight. Call poverty a challenge not a shame. Call universal health a goal, not a pipe dream. Call clean water an aspiration, shelter a target, so on and so forth.
-- For Indian express : AMRITA SHAH
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What kind of a language is yours, you write Moscow and pronounce it Leningrad? -stalin
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