Our Character___Swami Vivekananda

You have to make the character of

Mahavira (Hanuman/Anjaneya) your ideal.

He was a perfect master of his

senses and wonderfully sagacious.

Obedience to the Guru without questioning,

and strict observance of Brahmacharya--

this is the secret of success.

___________________________Swami Vivekananda

Good Sayings-22

421. The best motorist drives with imagination: he imagines that his family is in the car.

422. The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither happy with gain nor sorry by loss.

423. Wisdom grows in silence and also by listening more than one speaks.

424. A man decides his own fate through the types of thoughts he entertains.

425. Not admitting what you don't know can lead to suspicion about what you do know.

426. The virtuous man who is happy in this life is sure to be still happier in his next.

427. Whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely would instantly come to pass.

428. Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.__Epictetus

429. Tell me what you are busy about and I will tell you what you are.__Goethe

430. Love never asks; but gives.__Gandhiji

431. Faith, a happy home, and challenging work are the motivating factors for a happy life.__Matthew E. Welsh

432. Being assertive, is protecting your interests without harming other people's rights.

433. A contented man even though poor is happy; a discontented man though rich is unhappy.

434. Like a miser that longeth after gold, let thy heart pant after God.__Sri Rama Krishna

435. Straw eaten by cows turns into milk, while milk drunk by serpents turns into poison.

436. Wealth may decrease, if donated, but knowledge will never if it is imparted.

437. Any story sounds true until someone tells the other side and sets the record straight.

438. The wise approve, anything after scrutiny, whereas fools are led by other's opinions.

439. Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.__Duke of Edinburgh

440. No one can worship God nor love his neighbour on an empty stomach.__ Woodrow Wilson

Good Sayings-21

401. Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever worry mankind.__Thomas Carlyle

402. The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we are ready for it.__Arnold Glasow.

403. Suffering brings wisdom, pleasure takes it away.__Paramahansa Satyananda

404. A thing of beauty is a joay for ever.__John Keats.

405. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.

406. Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentlemen to be polite to a beggar.

407. Excellence is the result of always striving to do better.__Pat Riley

408. That man is great, who can use the brains of others to carry on his work.__Donn Piatt

409. A great man is made of qualities that make great occassions.__J.R.Lowell

410. Two things are bad for the heart -- running upstrains and running down people.

411. Be honest and hard working. Hard work is equal tro prayer.__Lal Bahadur Sastri.

412. Hatred does not cease by hatred but only by love; this is the eternal rule__Budda.

413. Learning from the experience of the elders is the greatest homage paid to them.

414. When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.__Corneille

415. Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

416. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

417. All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment!

418. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

419. Everything in the modern home is controlled by switches except the children.

420. Silence is the ornament of the illiterate especially in the assembly of learned men.