Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.

More Indian Proverbs

• Death is a camel which sleeps in everyone’s house.
• Don’t delay today’s work until tomorrow.
• Happy is the woman whose husband does not speak to her.
• Never do tomorrow, what you can do today.
• Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision.
• What is now in the past was once in the future.
• A man without money is like a bow without arrows.
• War is to men, childbirth is to women.
• Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
• Every one looking downwards becomes impressed with ideas of his own greatness, but looking upwards, he feels his own littleness.
• Alertness and courage are life’s shields.
• There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth.
• A man without a woman is only half a man.
• The worst kind of poverty is to have many debts.
• They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
• A monkey that amuses me is better than a deer astray.
• A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
• Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.
• The tongue is safe; even among thirty teeth.
• Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
• Greed is the root cause of sorrow.
• Only two things matter in this world: a son and a daughter.
• Any water in the desert will do.
• If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
• A hundred divine epochs would not suffice to describe all the marvels of the Himalaya.
• The money you dream about will not pay your bills.
• Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant.