I have often been irritated, though it would be comic if the consequences were not so awful, by observing how men shut one another in a delusion and cannot get out of this magic circle. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Everyone, and especially the young, should understand…”
Everyone, and especially the young, should understand that to devote your lives, or even to occupy yourselves with arranging by violence the lives of others according to your own ideas, is not only a crude superstition, but is an evil, criminal business, pernicious to the soul. Understand that the desire of an enlightened human soul for the good of others, […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Let a man but realize that the aim of his life is…”
Let a man but realize that the aim of his life is the fulfillment of God’s law, and that law will replace all other laws for him, and he will give it his sole allegiance, so that by that very allegiance every human law will lose all binding and controlling power in his eyes. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “How much trouble he avoids who does not…”
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only what he does himself, that it may be just and pure. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “We should not act and speak…”
We should not act and speak as if we were asleep. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Quotation from the Upanishads – “Different is the Good and different is the dear…”
Different is the Good and different is the dear, they both, having different aims, fetter you men; He, who chooses for himself the Good, comes to wellbeing, he, who chooses the dear, loses the goal. The Good and the dear approach the man, The wise man, pondering over both, distinguishes them; The wise one chooses the Good over the dear, […]
Quotation from the Upanishads – “The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over…”
The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard. Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as…”
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Marcus Aurelius Quote – “If you are pained by any external thing…”
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment now. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, who hinders you from correcting your opinion? Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Adelaide Anne Procter Quote – “All yesterday I was spinning…”
All yesterday I was spinning, Sitting alone in the sun; And the dream that I spun was so lengthy, It lasted till day was done… I went up the hill this morning To the place where my spinning lay — There was nothing but glistening dewdrops Remained of my dream to-day. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 – 1864)