Life and Existence

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life-giving.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with dirty feet.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends, but to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward.

Every one of us must find his peace from within. And peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outside circumstance.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased about the other.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased about the other.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased about the other.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the atomic age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the atomic age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday: This is the end Of Solomon Grundy.