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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Swami Sivananda
Religion
Culture
Better
Values
Moral
Moral Values
Laws
Maintaining
Than
Far
Regulations
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Swami Sivananda
Life
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Destination
Rest
Life Is A
Direct
He
Roadside
Bliss
Does
Pilgrimage
Ultimate
His
Domain
Eternal
Marches
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Swami Sivananda
Religion
Science
Argument
Only
Both
Beyond
Inwardly
Real
Metaphysics
Go
Region
Lived
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Swami Sivananda
Thoughts
Words
Only
Shapes
Divinity
Also
Ends
Your
Acts
God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
Thales
God
Birth
Ancient
All Things
Had
He
Most
Things
Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.
Thales
Everything
Runs
Through
Intellect
Things
People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.
Theodore Zeldin
Saying
Health
Good
Family
Good Health
You
People
Living
Our
Something
More
Retire
Idea
Soon
Longer
Until
Because
Got
How
Go
Years
Going
Quite
Hobbies
Children
After
Then
Works
People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.
Theodore Zeldin
Communication
People
World
Matter
Lonely
Difficult
Find
Superficial
About
Talking
Isolated
Personal
Personal Things
Them
Themselves
Really
Things
The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.
Theodore Zeldin
Conversation
Equality
World
Strangers
Our
Respectability
Ourselves
Purpose
Remake
Main
Open
Advancement
Instead
Longer
Like
Most
Practically
Personal
Conversations
Us
Create
Working
Use
Engaging
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle
Rest
Gifted
Sees
Point
Leaves
Surplus
Person
Essential
Who
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Thomas Carlyle
Me
You
Humanity
Better
Honor
Kind
Idea
Know
Person
Your
Show
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle
Great
History
Youth
People
Majority
Passed
Done
Anything
Shows
Seclusion
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Man
Blessing
Mind
Visible
Consists
Unseen
Outward
Felicity
Inward
Riches
Fortune
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Thomas Carlyle
Must
Verify
His
Yes
Expel
Convert
Them
Doubts
Certainty
Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle
Communication
Words
Slave
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle
You
Man
Better
Men
Wish
Nothing
Else
About
More
Had
Talk
Likely
Him
Get
Thing
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
Behavior
Individual
New
Cease
Ceases
Intelligent
Turns
Appear
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Alone
Whatever
Doubt
Action
Kind
Ended
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
Everywhere
True
Question
Gain
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
Great
Religion
Gun
Three
Civilization
Powder
Protestant
Printing
Modern
Modern Civilization
Elements
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas Carlyle
Yourself
Fear
Unbelief
Fearful
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas Carlyle
Eyes
Weak
Objects
Glittering
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle
Wait
Would
Spin
Entirely
Imperfection
Advancing
Till
Off
Person
Ever
Nowhere
Axis
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle
Politics
Hope
Happy
People
Vain
Make
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle
Science
Wonderful
World
Will
Think
Our
Inscrutable
Miracle
Magical
More
Sciences
Still
After
Whosoever
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
Truth
Man
Goodness
Past
Nothing
Worthy
Die
Dies
In The Past
Realized
Ever
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