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“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

“Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“you can live a whole life time never being awake.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will know the truth.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“If you [can realise Brahman] by standing on your head, or on one foot, or by worshipping five thousand gods with three heads each â€� welcome to it! ... Do it any way you can! Nobody has any right to say anything. Therefore, Krishna says, if your method is better and higher, you have no business to say that another man’s method is bad, however wicked you may think it.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Later on we read what Krishna says, “Even those who worship other deities are really worshipping meâ€� (note 31). It is God incarnate whom man is worshipping. Would God be angry if you called Him by the wrong name? He would be no God at all! Can’t you understand that whatever a man has in his own heart is God â€� even if he worships a stone? What of that! We will understand more clearly if we once get rid of the idea that religion consists in doctrines. One idea of religion has been that the whole world was born because Adam ate the apple, and there is no way of escape. Believe in Jesus Christ â€� in a certain man’s death! But in India there is quite a different idea. [There] religion means realisation, nothing else. It does not matter whether one approaches the destination in a carriage with four horses, in an electric car, or rolling on the ground. The goal is the same. For the [Christians] the problem is how to escape the wrath of the terrible God. For the Indians it is how to become what they really are, to regain their lost Selfhood. ...”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference. We think and our bodies do not follow. Our actions do not harmonise with our thoughts. Our words have not the power of the words that become Vedas. ... Whatever they think must be accomplished. If they say, “I do this,â€� the body does it. Perfect obedience. This is the end. You can think yourself God in one minute, but you cannot be [God].”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness!”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“What is it that is whirling the mind? Imagination, creative activity. Stop creation and you know the truth. All power of creation must stop, and then you know the truth at once.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Even if you have knowledge, do not disturb the childlike faith of the ignorant. On the other hand, go down to their level and gradually bring them up (note 30). That is a very powerful idea, and it has become the ideal in India. That is why you can see a great philosopher going into a temple and worshipping images. It is not hypocrisy.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Absolute equality, that which means a perfect balance of all the struggling forces in all the planes, can never be in this world. Before you attain that state, the world will have become quite unfit for any kind of life, and no one will be there. We find, therefore, that all these ideas of the millennium and of absolute equality are not only impossible but also that, if we try to carry them out, they will lead us surely enough to the day of destruction.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga

“Just as inequality is necessary for creation itself, so the struggle to limit it is also necessary. If there were no struggle to become free and get back to God, there would be no creation either. It is the difference between these two forces that determines the nature of the motives of men. There will always be these motives to work, some tending towards bondage and others towards freedom. This”
― Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

“that my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not—of”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: an autobiography

“It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain. We must inform our minds that no one in this universe depends upon us; not one beggar depends on our charity; not one soul on our kindness; not one living thing on our help. All are helped on by nature, and will be so helped even though millions of us were not here. The course of nature will not stop for such as you and me; it is, as already pointed out, only a blessed privilege to you and to me that we are allowed, in the way of helping others, to educate ourselves. This is a great lesson to learn in life, and when we have learned it fully, we shall never be unhappy; we can go and mix without harm in society anywhere and everywhere.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

“The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga

“Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

“No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane”
― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.”
― Samuel Beckett