Maharaji Quotes

"Question: Is life as difficult as it sometimes seems to be?
Answer: Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult."
- Maharaji.

"Learning and growing. That is what Knowledge is all about. A human being, with all the passion, falling in love with the most beautiful thing, again and again. Enjoying every moment of life."

"God has given you life and you are living it for someone else."

"One day you will be completely alone. So try to be completely alone now. Because now you can recognize the beauty that is there."

"The heart rarely speaks, but when it does listen to it!"

"Don't make a problem where there's no problem,
or then you've got a real problem."

"If you win the rat-race, you're still a rat."

"Thought is God's gift to you, what you think about is your gift to yourself."

"That which you are looking for is inside of you."

"Happiness is not a consequence, it's a state of being."

"Recognize how precious life is."
- Maharaji.

Chanakya Quotes

Chanakya (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC)

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions -
Why am I doing it?
What the results might be and
Will I be successful?
Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

"Once you start working on something,
don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest."

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship.
There is no Friendship without self-interests.
This is a bitter truth."

"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."