“Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.” TurnsThreeDeedsBest ThingsGood DeedsGood ThoughtsGood Words Author:Zoroaster
“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.” IfsPainMovingDesireTurnsEvilCausesPleasureResultsExistenceHellSawsBirthCreaturesIndividualityDeedsKarmaDisgustingThirstCraveLiving CreaturesObnoxious Author:Gautama Buddha
“How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.” MenSoulTurnsGirlCareersSacredAffectionDeedsImpulseHeroicMartyrFrivolousSteadfastAnthemDeathless Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.” IfsDiesTurnsSweetSummerFlowDignityDeedsSmellWeedSweetestLiliesInfectionFrailty Author:William Shakespeare