Quotes About Mahavira

#1. Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. I see less and less ... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up ... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

Claude Monet

#3. The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Mahavira

#4. Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

Mahavira

#5. Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Mahavira

#6. Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!

Saul Gorn

#7. Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Mahavira

#8. We must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

Martin Luther

#9. Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

Mahavira

#10. A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.

Mahavira

#11. All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

Mahavira

#12. Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.

Mahavira

#13. You only live once, so give it your best shot!

Junying Kirk

#14. Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work
hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss
loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Jean Vanier

#15. It's always the scuffs in the marble that make its inner light seem to glow more brightly.

Alena Graedon

#16. By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Mahavira

#17. Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

Mahavira

#18. I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

William J. Casey

#19. When you see an aging or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together. If you paint over a building there is no more magic to that building. But if it is allowed to age, then man has built it and nature has added into it - it's so organic.

David Lynch

#20. Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Mahavira

#22. If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

Mahavira

#23. Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

Mahavira

#24. In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

Mahavira

#25. I love you. I love you so much that sometimes I feel as if it's never enough. I'll always want more of you. Every day I wish I had found you sooner so I could love you longer.

Kimberly Lauren

#26. All are my friends. I have no enemies.

Mahavira

#27. Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

Mahavira

#28. The nature of things is dharma.

Mahavira

#29. One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

Mahavira

#30. Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

Mahavira

#31. All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Mahavira

#32. Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, "Give me that child, that I might slaughter him," I would tell him, "BITE ME!

Julie McGalliard

#33. Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

Mahavira