Wise Sayings Quotes - Page 13

Harmony doesn’t come merely through tolerance. You don’t need to tolerate people from other cultural backgrounds. It is time you start loving them. Toleration may make you a decent person, but it is love that makes you a true human being.

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power over your life.

Be pure, live a conscientious life, defend your dignity and be loving to others.

We cannot just live any how.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.

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Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain’s ability to act out of rage and fear.

In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.

All I want is to be at service of humanity, rather than being a teacher. I cannot teach anyone anything I can only make them think.

Harmony also is not a luxury, it is an evolutionary necessity, if we are to advance further. And harmony cannot be compromised for any book in the world, no matter how ancient, or who wrote it.

The Self is the measure of everything.

Anyone who utters “salvation only through Christ” inadvertently commits to the greatest blasphemy of all, which is differentiation, and this in turn diminishes the very essence of the title Christian.

The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within.

Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.

No God, Religion, Race or Nation is higher than the humans.

Forget all the formal decency of tolerance, and simply love your fellow humans. And the Self within you shall attain the highest pedestal of greatness, way higher than all the book-learned preachers in the world.

Continue to exercise your imagination and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your will and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your conscience and it will take you higher.

Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation.

There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.

The human body is not necessarily a human being.

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

The world needs something from you, my friend. It needs the heart that is deep as the ocean and infinite as the outer-space. Can you provide that my friend! Can you make your will so large and your conscience so sharp that in front of which, a thousand Everests and a thousand Kilimanjaros would bow!

The darkness of ignorance, blindfold us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With patient, you shall possess your soul.

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Test all things. But hold fast to the good.

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Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond religion – it is beyond all sectarianism.

Be the help you seek from others.

Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind.

Luxury is the enemy of growth.

It is fatal to forget the past.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When God opens a door no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.

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Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill is mission.

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Three powerful d’s of life Dream. Desire. Dare.

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Reading is my breath.

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There is no substitute for education.

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Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.

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If you don’t allow one to become a lion, one will become a sheep. And the world is already filled with sheeps, which is the major cause of the society’s intellectual and moral downfall. For a better future to evolve, where humanism will be an all-pervading virtue and separatism will be a matter of ancient history, the world needs lions.

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they’ll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they’ll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history.

Too much study leads to worn out,

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The real education is the reality of how well you live life.

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The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

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Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.

The real certificate is to know Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Ignorance is the deepest sin of dark doom.

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It is always, first Self, then everything else.

The real battle is within yourself.

It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.

Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.

Without failure, there is no success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.

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It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.

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A search for knowledge is a search for the truth.

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Knowledge is vast like ocean. It is inexhaustible quest!

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Knowledge is light.God is light.God is knowledge.

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Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.

Imagine the ancient society of India, and in fact all over the world, a few thousands years ago. In those days, rational thinking was quite scarce. Ignorance was the default mode of thinking. Only a handful of individuals were capable of higher intellectual thinking.

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