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Shri Ravindranath Tagore on God  Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. God loves me when I sing. God respects me when I work. God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. Shri Swami Vivekanand Bhakti is a higher thing higher than even desiring heaven. The idea of heaven is of a place of intensified enjoyment. How can that be God? Bhakti-Yoga is the path of systematised devotion for the attainment of union with the Absolute. It is the easiest and surest path to religion or realisation. You cannot believe in GOD until you believe in yourself. FEEL like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. THE more we come out and do good to others, the more ou...

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. -Max Depree. The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. -Joe Batten. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -Ralph Nader. The greatest enemy of best is "good". If you're willing to accept "good" you'll never be the "best". Charles Kaiser. If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. - Henry Kissinger. Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps." David Lloyd George. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Me...

Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. Socrates. I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. - Benjamin Franklin. We never repent of having eaten too little. - Thomas Jefferson . To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. - La Rochefoucauld . He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. - Chinese Proverb. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. - Hippocrates. Man does not live by bread alone... - Matthew 4:4 Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong. Hindu. After lunch rest a while, after dinner walk a mile. Hindu. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. -Socrates. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. - Elsa Schiaparelli. ...

Does the devil know he is a devil? -Elizabeth Madox Roberts Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -Abraham Lincoln You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Abraham Lincoln. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. -Gene Roddenberry. What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. -Thomas Henry Huxley Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. -Voltaire One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. -Thomas Paine. Make money your God, and it will plague you like the devil. -Henry Fielding . It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle Pe...

Happiness is a direction, not a place.  -Sydney J. Harris Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Albert Schweitzer. I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself. -Sri Chinmoy. Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. - Mark Twain. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison. The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it. – Kofi Annan. The way to happiness -- keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much. - Carol Borges. "If you want ...

Ability is poor man's wealth. -M.Wren. To know how to hide one's ability is a great skill. There is no need to show your ability before everyone. -James Anthony Froude Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. -Napoleon Bonaparte If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. -Ashleigh Brilliant Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. -Casey Stengel. The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. -Edward Gibbon. It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard.  We hire a man, not his history.  -Henry Ford . Ability is of little account without opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. -William Feather. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they...

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." --Tom Landry "The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." --Jim Rohn "If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity." --Loretta Staples