Best of Gautam Buddha Quotes

Biography 

• Born: c.563 BCE, Lumbini (presently in Nepal)
• Died: c. 483 BCE, Kushinagar (today in Uttar Pradesh India)
• Parents: King Suddhodana(father), Queen Maha Maya (mother)
• Other names: Siddhartha,  Arihant, Bhagavat, Jinendra, Sugata.
• Occupation: Spiritual teacher/founder of Buddhism
• Spouse: Yasodhara
• Children: Rahul

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. 

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. 

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. 

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. 

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. 

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. 

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. 

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. 

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. 

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. 

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. 

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. 

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. 

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. 

Best of Mother Teresa Quotes

Biography

• Born: 26^th August 1910
• Birthplace: Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
• Died: 5^th September 1997
• Cause of death: Heart failure
• Location of death: Kolkata, India 
• Remains: Buried , Motherhouse Convent, Calcutta, India
• Ethnicity: Albania
• Occupation: Catholic Nun/missionary
• Nationality: India
• Other name: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
• Parents Nikollë Bojaxhiu (father) Dranafile Bojaxhiu (mother)

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. 

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. 

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. 

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. 

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. 

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. 

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. 

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. 

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. 

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. 

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. 

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. 

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. 

Best of Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Biography

• Born: 7^th May 1861
• Birthplace: Calcutta, India
• Died: 7^th Aug 1941
• Location of death: Calcutta, India
• Cause of death: unspecified
• Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered in the River Ganges)
• Ethnicity: Bengali
• Occupation: Poet, Playwright, Novelist
• Nationality: India
• Parents: Debendranath Tagore(father) Sarada Devi(mother)
• Wife: Mrinalini Devi (m. 1993, d. 1902)
• Children: five children, two of them died in childhood

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. 






Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. 

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. 

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. 

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. 

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. 

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. 

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. 

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. 

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. 

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. 

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. 

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.