Motivation

I often wonder why I struggle, why I fight to live.
But then, I find the milky white moon standing amidst the sky,
I watch each little star turn darkness to light...
Then I learn the greatest truth that all mankind ought to see,
That by living I give to the world what it has given to me.

Anusree Banerjee,Class IX

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man -- who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Maxim Gorky

Doubt the negative and put your trust in the positive.. when your senses are engaged in goodness, then you will create light and fragrance, when engaged in impurity you create smoke and darkness.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A man who possesses cheerfulness may not utter even a word but those who come into contact with him, mark the lines of good spirits on his face and this brings happiness on their faces also... In order to make man acquire other virtues he has to be taught, but the quality called cheerfulness travels of its own self to his face and gets possession of him.

Raja Yogi B K Jagdish Chander


The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell


If you manipulate words, it is a lie,
If you play on words, it is a joke,
If you rely on words, it is ignorance,
If you transcend words, it is wisdom.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Everything false is bad. Even false garb is bad. If your mind is not quite in accord with the garb, then terrible ruin shall visit you. In this way, one grows hypocritical, and all fear of doing wrong or uttering falsehood disappears.

Sri Ramakrishna

Honesty is most powerful when it involves not simply speaking your mind but being true to the best within you.

Dadi Janki

On this planet, most people... say the opposite of what they're seeing, for fear of offending someone or revealing something about themselves that they don't want anyone to know... We observe what's so and then lie about it. 

Neale Donald Walsch

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Edgar Watson Howe

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

O Henry

No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F Scott Fitzgerald