Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.

-  Proverbs

World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.

-  Sri Chinmoy

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.

-  Rumi

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

-  W. C. Jones

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

-  Nikolai Gogol

The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

-  John Flavel

In life, if anything "unexpected or unforeseen" happens with you or around you, then it is nothing but the manifestation of your foolishness.

-  Deep Trivedi

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence.

-  Lord Byron

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

-  Michael Cunningham