“Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.”

While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift, and never waste such an opportunity.

To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.

Try to make others happy, and don’t despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.

I learned that i was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.’ -nora (pg 263)

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That’s just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it… that’s excellence.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.