Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 2

I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.
Rabindranath Tagore
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past not to worry about the future nor to anticipate troubles but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
Discipline does not mean suppression and control nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
Buddha
No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart you will see Him everywhere.
Swami Sivananda
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Laurence Durrell
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
Mother Teresa
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu proverb
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
Mahatma Gandhi
I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.
J.B.S. Haldane
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Hindu proverb
If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
The Buddha
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
In truth to attain to interior peace one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore
Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
Mahatma Gandhi
With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
Mahatma Gandhi
I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.
J.B.S. Haldane
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Hindu proverb
If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
The Buddha
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
In truth to attain to interior peace one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore