Words of Wisdom

Welcome to my "words of wisdom" page! This & the subsequent pages contain a collection of poems, quotes, stories, etc that I've found to be inspiring and ought to be shared. Here, i start off with a collection of poems & quotations.

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowances for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise,

If you can dream - and not make dream your master
Ifyou can think - and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat these two imposters just the same,

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for the fools,

Or watch the things you have given your life to, broken
And stoop and build'em up with worn out tools;

Ifyou can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,

Yours is the earth and everything that's in it
And which is more - you will be a man - my son.

- Rudyard Kipling

Where the mind is without fear and the head is head high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world is not broken up by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depths of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way;

In the dreary desert sand of dead habits;

Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever widening thoughts and actions;

Into that heaven of freedom my father,

Let my country awake.

- Rabindra Nath Tagore.

"Blessed are those who are merciful, for they shall obtain mercy"

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God"

"Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"

[ The Gospel according to Matthew (Chapter: 4, Verses: 5, 7 & 9)]

"Everyday I see people human beings to yama's abode(i.e heaven)
But those who live seek to live forever"

- From Mahabharata, an Indian Epic
(' The Greatest Wonder of the World' according to Yudhisthira)

“My parting appeal to you, dear citizens of this proud and tolerant Republic Of India, is to guard our tradition of tolerance, for this is the soul of our culture and civilization, that is the spirit of our constitution, and that is also the secret behind the working of our democracy and the secret of the coherence of this vast country as a united nation.”

- Former President Of The Indian Republic, Mr. K. R. Narayanan

"There cannot be life without freedom. Total freedom leads to perfection. We call that perfect being, who is Master of nature, omnipotent and omniscient, God. He is everything. He is life, He is death, He is good and He is bad, He is terrible and He is merciful. Bondage and liberty, light and shadow, good and evil, He is all. This universal consciousness is the ultimate end. Reaching which, nothing remains to be achieved. This then is true religion."

- Swami Vivekananda (On What Is True Religion)

"If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage.
If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom.
Freedom is the goal of all nature."

- Swami Vivekananda

" The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within "

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I sat in silence for a while in the Ashram and remembered the life of Gandhiji. One dominant thought came to my mind. If we can go above our own personal hardships and see the problems of others and decide to work for a larger cause, then there is natural elevation of our minds. When we are lax in this, then our level of thinking goes down. I felt confident that all of us can be elevated to the level of noble minds, if we just decide to understand others and to practice tolerance. Non-violence, tolerance, acceptance of all religions and different ways of life, search for truth and fearlessness are the values the Mahatma taught us and they are the corner-stone of our civilisational heritage and therefore of Indian polity. Any act by anyone anywhere in India that runs counter to these eternal values would pose a threat to the fabric of a free Indian nation...."

- His Excellency, President A.P.J Abdul Kalam

(President of the Republic Of India)