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  • #1
    “A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return”
    Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

  • #2
    “No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come”
    Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

  • #3
    Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
    “The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.”
    Ved Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

  • #4
    “When meditation is mastered,
    The mind is unwavering like the
    Flame of a lamp in a windless place.
    In the still mind,
    In the depths of meditation,
    The Self reveals itself.
    Beholding the Self
    By means of the Self,
    An aspirant knows the
    Joy and peace of complete fulfillment.
    Having attained that
    Abiding joy beyond the senses,
    Revealed in the stilled mind,
    He never swerves from the eternal truth.”
    Bhagavad Gita

  • #5
    “Krishna says: "Arjuna, I am the taste of pure water and the radiance of the sun and moon. I am the sacred word and the sound heard in air, and the courage of human beings. I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the radiance of fire; I am the life in every creature and the striving of the spiritual aspirant”
    Bhagavad Gita

  • #6
    “Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed.”
    Bhagavad Gita

  • #7
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    Frederick Lewis Donaldson

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #10
    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    Howard Nemerov

  • #11
    A.C. Bhaktivedanta
    “Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.”
    A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

  • #12
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
    Winston Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #15
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #16
    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    Winston S. Churchill

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  • #18
    “We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.”
    Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body

  • #19
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #20
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #21
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #22
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #23
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #24
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

  • #25
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #26
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

  • #27
    Audre Lorde
    “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
    audre lorde

  • #28
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #29
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
    Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

  • #30
    James Baldwin
    “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
    James Baldwin



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