INSPIRING THOUGHTS.

1. Let us give nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. (Michel de Montaigne).
2. Bhajans and prayers awaken positive vibrations in oneself and in the environment. (Mata Amritanandamayi).
3. Are we as free as we think we are? We are bound to our desires and cravings. You are a prisoner of yourself. (J.P. Vaswani). 
4. If one wants to be in the flow, then get into the habit of following one's heart. Experience results of your experiments with this new way of living. (Master Minood).
5. Spiritual is a spiritual feedback that somewhere you have lost your alignment to the Existential Order. (Mahatria Ra).
6. It is the lack of money that is evil. Money sustains life; with money, you but food, home, medical insurance. It is needed for anything you do on earth. (Baskaran Pillai).
7. When one is at a crossroads, keep asking the Divine what you should do. Asking attracts the answer, even if it is not immediate. (Shakti Durga).
8. If your dream is genuine and accounts for the well-being of others, you will get all the support you need. (Jyoti Kalia).
9. Diverse incidents are inevitable; sorrow and joy keep happening. But a true devotee keeps his objective distinct from these incidents. (Arup Mitra).
10. Anger has a place in life. But one must know how to handle it. (Seema Burman).
11. Our prayers are so dear to God that he's appointed angels to present them to him as soon as we express them. (Murali Krishna).
12. Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. (Sharon Salzberg).
13. Choices are the hinges of destiny. (Edwin Markham).
14. Wherever a holy saint sits, that place itself becomes a holy place of pilgrimage. (Srimad Bhagavatam).
15. If the Lord's name abides within the mind, even for an instant, it is like bathing at all the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage. (Adi Granth).
16. Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. (Marc Chagall).Don't be a creation of circumstances, challenge who you can be. (Steven Redhead).
17. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. (Mary Pickford). 
18. Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. (Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam).
19. You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. (Bonnie Prudden).Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. (Thomas Fuller).
20. You can't purchase friendship - you have to do your part to make it. (Chanakya in Arthasastra).
21. Trust, but verify. (Chanakya in Arthasastra).
22. Running away is not glorious, but often very healthy. (Chanakya in Arthasastra).
23. A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).
24. People call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than they have. (Anne Tyler).
25. Character is the result of two things; Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. (Elbert Hubbard).
26. To get anywhere, strike out for somewhere, or you will get nowhere. (Martha Lupton).
27. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. (Swami Vivekananda).
28. What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. (Carl Rogers).
29. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozel).
30. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. (Josh Billings).
31. A peaceful mind is your most precious capital. (Swami Vivekananda).
32. Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. (Swami Paripurnananda). 
33. Love is a creative force that uplifts, saves and heals. (Ramana Maharshi).
34. Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. (Anthony J. D'Angelo).
35. Throughout your life there will be peaks and valleys. Make today a peak. (Eric Eisenberg). 
36. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. (W. Clement  Stone).
37. You are bigger than your anger; it is a part of you, you are not a part of it. (Donald Neviaser).
38. It helps people to become honest when they are treated as honest. (Elijah Mcleon).
39. Character consists of what you do on the third and the fourth tries. (James A. Michener).
40. All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered. (Robin S. Sharma).
41. To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. (Suzanne Gordon).
42. The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. (Eric Gill).
43. We don't need more strength, more ability, or greater opportunity. (Chanakya in Arthasastra).
44. What you can do now is the only influence you have over your future. (Swami Dayanand Saraswati).
45. What you can do now is the only influence you have over your future. (Ramana Maharishi).
46. Begin where you are, but don't stay where you are. (Kabirdas).
47. We need men who can dream of things that never were. (John F. Kennedy).
48. Attract what you expect. Reflect what you desire. (Chinna Jeeyar Swami).
49. Most people make the mistake of looking too far ahead for things close by. (Swami Vivekananda).
50. Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. (Jack Canfield).
51. Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's goodness. (Wilberforce).
52. Example is more forcible than precept. (Cecil).
53. Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us. (Rousseau).
54. Envy is but the smoke of low estate, ascending still against the fortunate. (Brooke).
55. The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy. (Nerval).
56. Sleep, riches, health, and so every blessing, are not truly and fully enjoyed till after they have been interrupted. (Swami Vivekananda).
57. Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. (Galen).
58. Speech is the body; thought, the soul, and suitable action the life of eloquence. (C. Simmons).
59. Universal suffrage, without universal education, would be a curse. (H.L. Wayland).
60. No man is rich whose expensiture exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. (Haliburton).
61. The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfil another. (George Eliot).
62. What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. (Johnson).
63. All is holy where devotion kneels. (O.W. Holmes).
64. Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to beauty. (Degerando).
65. He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs. (Lavater).
66. Good company, and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. (Izaak Walton).
67. One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. (Persian proverb).
68. Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. (Bacon).
69. Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak, but they show what he is. (Thomas A. Kempis).
70. Children have more need of models than of critics. (Joubert).
71. Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. (Talmud).
72. We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through what we refuse and keep. (Mad. Swetchine).
73. In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation. (Paulo Coelho).
74. For light, I go directly to the source of light, not to any of the reflections. (Peace Pilgrim).
75. See, people from South India go on a pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine in North India. So this pilgrimage becomes a medium to connect and unite the people from Kanyalumari in the South with the people from Kashmir in the North. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar).
76. Everyone in this world is a pilgrim. He comes alone, treads his chosen path for a time, then leaves once more solitarily. His is a sacred destination, always dimly suspected, though usually not consciously known. What all men truly seeking is joy infinite, joy eternal, joy divine. (Swami Kriyananda).
77. Life is an eternal pilgrimage and the pilgrim is none other than jivatma, the very being that manifests its existence in partaking of the eternal... This journey of self-realisation is the only true journey - this journey is the journey inwards - this pilgrimage is the pilgrimage to the inner recesses of our mind. (Sudhanshuji Maharaj). 
78. God is with you always. Simply turn your face to Him. (Kirpal Singh).
79. I was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca and God met me on the way. He scolded me and asked, "Who told you that I am only there?" (Kabir).
80. And all the sacred shrines of pilgrimage established by the gods, long for the dust of the feet of the Holy. Meeting with the Lord's Saint, the Holy Guru, I apply the dust of His feet to my face. (Guru Ramdas).
81. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. (Mary Pickford).
82. Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. (Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam).
83. You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. (Bonnie Prudden).
84. absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. (Thomas Fuller).
85. You can't purchase friendship - you have to do your part to make it. (Anonymous).
86. Trust, but verify. (Chanakya in Arthasastra). 
87. Running away is not glorious, but often very healthy. (Swami Vivekananda).
88. A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).
89. People call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than they have. (Anne Tyler).
90. Character is the result of two things; Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. (Elbert Hubbard).
91. To get anywhere, strike out for somewhere, or you will get nowhere. (Martha Lupton).
92. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. (Swami Vivekananda).
93. What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. (Carl Rogers).
94. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. (Jonathan Kozel).
95. Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope. (Josh Billings).
96. A peaceful mind is your most precious capital. (Brahmakumaris).
97. Be geenerous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. (Mother Teresa).
98. Love is acreative force that uplifts, saves and heals. (Mother Teresa).
99. The bloom of tender flowers is past / And lilies droop forlorn, / For winter-rime is come at last, / Rich with its ripened corn; / Yet for the wealth of blossoms lost / Some hardier flowers appear / That bid defiance to the frost / Of sterner days, my dear. (Kalidas, Ritusamhara).
100. And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. (Kahlil Gibran).
101. It is your human environment that makes climate. (Mark Twain).
102. To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. (George Santayana).
103. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilerating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. (John Ruskin).
104. For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; everyday has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. (George Gissing).
105. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. (Eddie Rickenbacker).
106. Life without love is as empty as a dream. Give love! Live Love! and be Love's flowing stream. (J.P. Vaswani).
107. To be honest is to be truly beautiful. (J.P. Vaswani).
108. Forgiveness creates peace in the mind which in turn ensures a well-balanced body. Forgiveness is a cure for many ills. (J.P. Vaswani).
109. The health minister, Mr. Azad, insisted he used the controversial word "unnatural" with reference to homosexuality to draw notice to the wider debate in society about the legal status of homosexuality. (A news report).
110. The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" impacts the pathology of those who do become mentally ill...Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. (Ronald Gold). 
111. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. (Rita Mae Brown, 1982).
112. Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? (Ernest Gaines).
113. Lo! We have given you abundance; so pray to your Lord, and sacrifice. (Quran 108.1-2).
114. When with the Supreme Being as the offering the Gods performed a sacrifice, spring was the molten butter, summer the fuel, and autumn the oblation. On the grass they besprinkled Him, the Sacrificed Supreme Being, the first born. With him the Gods sacrificed, and those Sadhyas and the sages. From that sacrifice, fully offered, was gathered mixed milk and butter. And the birds of the air arose, the forest animals and the domestic. (Rig Veda).
115. So great is the power of sacrifice that it is the Self of the Gods. When, out of the essence of sacrifice, the Gods had made their own Self, they took their seat in the world of heaven. Similarly, the one who sacrifices now, when out of the essence of sacrifice he has made his own Self, takes his seat in the world of Heaven. (Satapatha Brahmanas 6.1.10).
116. "Make your offering", said the Master. "As you make it be pleased in mind. Make your mind completely calm and contented. Focus and fill the offering-mind with the giving. From this secure position you can be free from ill will". (Sutta Nipata 506).
117. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. (Psalm 1:3).
118. If all people were truly religious, this would be universal. Property would be secure; and, except so far as abundant harvests might be prevented by the direct providence of God - by blight, and mildew, and storms, and drought - all people would enjoy undisturbed the avails of their labour. Slavery, whereby one man is compelled to labour for another, would come to an end; every one who is now a slave would "eat the labour of his own hands"; and property would no more be swept away by war, or become the prey of robbers and freebooters. That is, happiness and security would be the consequence of true religion. (Barnes noted on the Bibles).
119. Husband and wife are the two wings of a bird. (Swami Vivekananda).
120. Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness. (Lao Tzu).
121. Blow O wind to where my loved one is. Touch him and come touch me soon. I will feel his gentle touch through you and meet his beauty in the moon. (Ramayana). 
122. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgive you. (Bible).
123. Ego lives by getting and forgetting;/Love lives by giving and forgiving;/Love is expansion;/Self is contraction;/Self is lovelessnes;/Love is selflessness. (Sri Sathya Sai Baba).
124. Marriage is like pi-natural, irrational, and very important. (Lisa Hoffman).
125. Anger deprives a sage of his wisdom, a prophet of his vision. (The Talmud).
126. Anger dissolves affection...Therefore, we should subvert anger by forgiveness. (Samanasuttam 135-36). 
127. You can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion. (The XIV Dalai Lama).
128. Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. (Swami Sivananda). 
129. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry withe right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. (Aristotle).
130. With these entreaties, O Ahura Mazda, may we not anger you, nor Truth or Best Thought, we who are standing at the offering of praises to you. (Zarathustra).
131. A true friend never breaches the trust of his companion or stabs in his back. He is trustworthy and reliable. One should therefore always try to be a true and reliable friend. (Sama Veda).
132. Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. (Bible).
133. Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace. (Gautama Buddha).
134. For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. (Indian Proverb).
135. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. (George Washington).
136. Whatever is given should be given with faith, with modesty, with fear, with kindness. (Taittiriya Upanishad).
137. Make your offering. As you make it, be pleased in mind. Make your mind completely calm and contended. Focus and fill the offering-mind with the giving. From this secure position you can be free from ill will. (Sutta Nipata).
138. Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in the silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him. (William Barclay).