When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. jiddu krishnamurti

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. swami sivananda

Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting. Dale Carnegie

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. Martha Graham

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. Clarence Darrow

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C Maxwell

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure." Gerald.N Weiskott

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one. Edward Keating

WISE MEN DON'T NEED ADVICE; FOOLS WON'T TAKE IT - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams : believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. Paulo Coelho

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

"Enemies are so stimulating." - Katharine Hepburn

Celebrate Life - I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree, a serious bird or a serious sunrise. It seems they are all laughing and dancing in their own ways. The whole of existence is a celebration. Osho

Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfilment...intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.- Deepak Chopra

September tries its best to have us forget summer. - Bern Williams

"There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live." - Jean de la Bruyere

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go." - Percy H. Johnson

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." - Josephus Daniels

Smile and silence

"We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them." - Richard Cecil

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines." - Gary Sinise

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." - A. Whitney Griswold