Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Some Quotes

This is my first post on my blog and I have no idea what to write. So let me share a set of some good quotes which I have been collecting since I started preparing for civil services. I really like good quotes right from my childhood but started collecting them only few years back. These are arranged in random fashion some good, some bad, some in which I don't believe but still good to hear & some in which I have unwavering conviction. Although quotes are nothing but jugglery of words they can be a source of inspiration & knowledge. After all, they emanate from the experiences of life. Few among them are written by me. If you go through them properly there will be a bit of revelation for you.



QUOTES

I love.


Cogito ergo sum.

Life is calling. Where are you?

Truth alone triumphs.

Is equality a dream?

When I discover who I am, I shall be free.

Love is a verb, not a noun.
Osho

India, a multitude of mutinies.
V.S Naipaul

If winter comes, can spring be far behind.

I was leading a life in darkness, until I realized the light was within me.
Bhagwad Geeta

Live and help live.

We have created India. Now all we need is to create Indians.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven.
Wordsworth

How happy is blameless vestal's lot?
The world is forgetting by the world forgot,
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
Shakespeare

According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body
weight is not in the right proportion to its wingspan. Unknown to
these laws, the bee flies anyway.

Sometimes in order to see the light, you have to risk the dark.

Property is theft.
P.J Proudhon
 
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and the world laugh louder.

Sometimes the journey becomes the destination.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other  path, everyone's path, easy & wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way. 
Dharmakirti

When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Machiavelli

Arise, awake and rest not until the goal is achieved.
Vivekananda
 

I am the center of my universe.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Money, if it doesn’t bring you happiness will at least help you be
miserable in comfort.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the
point, however, is to change it.
Marx

If I can love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate
somebody at the glimpse of few faults?

Great men are almost always bad men.
Lord Acton

If someone gets something for free, someone else must be paying for it.

Recall the face of the poorest & the weakest man, and ask yourself, if
the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him.
Gandhi

When in doubt, listen to your heart. You wont regret it.

It's not a question of being in love with someone it's a question of
just being in love. Love in its entirety is not addressed to some
body. It's a state of mind.


If voting changed anything they'd abolish it.
Ken Livingstone

Stupidity produces anti-bodies.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

You are that and that is you.

Love me, and the world is mine.
David Reed

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Hitler

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be
slaves.
Thoreau

Love as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.
Tacitus

As a woman I have no country.
Virginia Woolf

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates

Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

When you lose, dont lose the lesson.

All that is solid melts into air.
Marx

I hate democracy because I love freedom..

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Einstein

Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.

Ever experienced uvajed
-what a trip
-it's dejavu backward

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry W Beecher

There is no remedy to love but to love more.
Thoreau

It is not simply that there are rich and poor. It is rather that some
are rich because some are poor.
J.C Kincaid

From everything One is made and from One everything.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a
heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium
of the people.
Marx

Is it India rising at 8 per cent or 8 per cent of India rising at 8 per cent.
M.J Akbar

The Muslim of India never voted for development. They voted for fear.
M.J Akbar

The more man puts into god, the less he retains of himself.
Marx

People can be more human than their society permits.
Fischman
 
The British introduced red tape, but we have perfected it.

We have fears because we have a self. When we do not regard that self
as self, what have we to fear?
Lao-Tse

It's déjà vu all over again.

It's easy to spot a fool unless he's hiding in you.

The key to happiness has nothing to do with what you do or don't have.
It's all about what you decide to do with what is already yours.
Linda Blair

Whoever blushes is already guilty. True innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Rousseau

If no one heeds your call, walk alone, walk alone.
Gandhi

The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe
every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but as long as there
are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
Nehru

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes
when we shall redeem our pledge.
Nehru

Colonialists like Churchill said India can't govern itself. Our elite
is bent upon proving them correct.
Arum Kimar (JNU)

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Marx-Engels

Women are made, they are not born.
Simone de Beauvoir

History is, and always will be, a graveyard of aristocracies.

Poverty is expensive.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
Marx

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Justice is the interest of the stronger.
Thrasymachus

It is better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
J.S Mill

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Gandhi

Most of us waiting for something dramatic to happen in our lives do
not realize that it has already happened.
Shekhar Kapur

They say winning isn't everything, and I've decided to take their word for it.

Be kind to mother Earth. We don't have a spare in the trunk.

Is it the society according to human nature or the human nature
according to the society.
Marx

History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Integrity of the process always determines the quality of the product
that comes out of it.

Truth realized, god is forever caught.

Social change is a hard, slow & painful task and all I can say is that
I will not give up.

The dominant media are not pro-corporates. They are corporates.

Bullets, guns, curfews and check posts. Welcome to Kashmir.

A man who loves himself has no rivals.

Smile, it increases your face value.

Work for free or for full price. Never for cheap.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Difference between optimists and pessimists is that the optimists have more fun.

Patriotism cannot be a final spiritual shelter. My refuge is humanity.
Tagore

Your life does not change when your boss, friends, partner or job
changes. It solely changes when "you" change.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Social solidarity is the first human law. Freedom is the second law.
Bakunin

Math tells us 3 cool love stories: Of parallel lines, who are never meant to meet. Of tangent lines, who were together once then parted forever. And of asymptotes, who could only get closer and closer, but could never be together.

Patriotism should not be limited to a sense of reverence towards the
abstract notion of a nation. It is also love towards fellow
countrymen.
Sikander Khan (a reader of The Hindu newspaper)

Did god create us or did we create god?

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you
are unhappy. But life salutes you when you make others happy.
Charlie Chaplin

In India, backward is forward.

The difficult can be done immediately,
the impossible takes a little longer.
The Army Corps of Engineers

Two roads diverged in a wood,
And I, I took the less one travelled by,
And that has made all the difference
Robert Frost

Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb

Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

How many yards of buttermilk are required to make a pair of shorts for
a black bull?

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how much they must
hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self.

He who fears you present, will hate you absent.

One need to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be
defended against the heaviest odds.
Gandhi

Character, not brain will count at the crucial moment.
Tagore

Life is tough. But I am tougher.

एक ही परिचय, अपना परिचय.  
Osho
 
P.S: These are only selected few from my collection. ;)

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