“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.” MeanLongShowsLightLastsFireInspiredStormViolentVanityProphetFierceFeedingTirePreyConsumingRiotChokeHasteSpursBurn Out Author:William Shakespeare
“Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.” MenMindShowsRunningSpeakBrainMouthsLaborWitEvery ManVanityFloodDiscourseCrete Author:Herbert Spencer
“Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.” KnowsFeelsI CanShowsJoyPovertySorrowPleaseEgoYogaRichesVanityUnhappinessDeceivingShow MeJust Do ItBhakti Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz