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Early years

Woodson is the youngest of three siblings, with whom he had close relationships. His father, the late James Woodson, was African-American, and his mother, Linda Jo, is white; they were married providing a stable home for Joe, Jamie and Rod . Woodson attended R. Nelson Snider High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He played defensive back and a variety of offensive skill positions and was all-state his junior and senior seasons. in addition to football, he won both the high and low hurdles state championships in both his junior and senior seasons; and played varsity basketball his junior and senior seasons, making all conference his senior year.

College career

Woodson accepted a full scholarship to play football at Purdue University, in part because of a desire to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. Woodson played primarily as a defensive back and kick returner, but also saw time on offense as a running back and wide receiver. He was named an All-American defensive back in 1985 and 1986, and was a three time All-Big Ten first team selection. In his final collegiate game, Woodson gained over 150 of combined rushing and receiving yards, in addition to making ten tackles and forcing a fumble, leading Purdue to a victory over arch-rival Indiana.

Woodson left Purdue with 13 individual records, notably tying the school record with eleven career interceptions. He currently is ranked in the top ten in career interceptions, solo tackles, total tackles, passes deflected, and kickoff return yardage as a Boilermaker.

In addition to his exploits on the gridiron, Woodson was also an accomplished track and field athlete at Purdue, and twice awarded All-America honors. He currently holds the school records in both the 60 and 110 meter hurdles, events in which he earned five Big Ten championships. In 1984, he qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 100 meter hurdles, but elected to continue his football career in the NFL after graduating from Purdue with a degree in criminal justice.

Woodson was inducted into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.

Pro football career

In 1987, Woodson was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers as the 10th overall draft pick. He returned punts and played defensive cornerback for Pittsburgh through the 1996 season.On November 22, 1987 he was listed third on the depth chart in a game against the division rival Cincinnati Bengals played at Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium, Woodson was inserted into the secondary. In the final minute of the second quarter, he recorded his first career interception when he picked off a Boomer Esiason pass.

He was a fan favorite and a banner that hung for years in Three Rivers Stadium stated: "Rod Is God". A highlight came in 1995 when Woodson became the first player to return from reconstructive knee surgery in the same season. That year he tore his ACL against the Detroit Lions in the first game and returned to play in the Super Bowl XXX between the Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys just 19 weeks later. In that game, he broke up a pass intended for Michael Irvin, hopped up and pointed at his reconstructed knee. In a game against the Houston Oilers, Woodson hit Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon on a cornerback blitz. The hit gave Moon a concussion and forced him to leave the game.

Woodson's career took a somewhat nomadic turn after free agency from Pittsburgh, after the Rooney family elected not to renew his contract over a pay dispute as well as the salary cap. (The team had a similar dispute with Franco Harris in 1984 and later with Alan Faneca in 2008.) Although he remained to raise his family in Pittsburgh and later made amends with the Rooneys, he hopped between three additional franchises, becoming one of the few modern cornerbacks to successfully make a transition to the safety position, following in the footsteps of Ronnie Lott. Woodson signed with the San Francisco 49ers for the 1997 season, the Baltimore Ravens for the years 1998 to 2001 (where he won Super Bowl XXXV), and the Oakland Raiders for 2002 and 2003 (where he appeared in his third Super Bowl). In the Raiders 2002 Super Bowl season, 37-year old Woodson led the NFL in interceptions (8) for the first time in his career. His last interception came on November 16, 2003 against the Minnesota Vikings Daunte Culpepper.

NFL records and accomplishments

Woodson is among the NFL's all time leaders in games played as a defensive back and interceptions. In his 17 NFL seasons, Woodson recorded 71 interceptions, 1,483 interception return yards, 32 fumble recoveries (15 offensive and 17 defensive), 137 fumble return yards, 4,894 kickoff return yards, 2,362 punt return yards, and 17 touchdowns (12 interception returns, 1 fumble return, 2 kickoff returns, 2 punt returns). He holds the league record for interceptions returned for touchdowns with 12, and is tied with 11 other players for the record for most fumble recoveries in a single game (3). His 1,483 interception return yards are also an NFL record. His 32 fumble recoveries are a record amongst defensive players. His 71 interceptions rank 3rd all time.

Woodson was named to the Pro Bowl eleven times, a record for a defensive back. He was also the first player to earn trips to the Pro Bowl at cornerback, safety and kick returner. He was named 1993's NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press. He was also a 7 time All-Pro selection. Woodson finished second to Darrell Green in the 1988 NFL Fastest Man Contest.

In 1994, he was named to the NFL's 75th Anniversary Team. What made it notable was that Woodson was one of only five active players to be named to the team. The others were Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Reggie White and Ronnie Lott. In 1999, he was ranked number 87 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. The College Football News has also honored him as one of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century.

In 2007, he was ranked number 22 on USA Today list of the 25 best NFL players of the past 25 years.

It is unlikely that the Steelers will remove Woodson's number 26 from circulation, however, since the number is currently being worn by longtime cornerback Deshea Townsend, who as of the 2008 season has now played longer with the Steelers than Woodson did. (The team drafted Townsend in 1998 around the same time that Woodson signed with the archrival Ravens, and still had an acrimonious relationship with the Rooneys at the time.) Mel Blount's number 47 has also conspicuously remained in circulation since his retirement after the 1983 season.

On January 31, 2009, Woodson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility becoming the 18th Steelers-related person to be enshrined. Woodson named his good friend and business associate Tracy Foster as his presenter. Foster went to Indiana to play basketball for Bob Knight. Foster runs Woodson car dealership in Pittsburgh.

Retirement

Woodson was released by the Oakland Raiders on July 27, 2004 after failing his team physical. His replacement at free safety for the Raiders was Stuart Schweigert, who coincidentally, broke Woodson's career interception record at Purdue.

He now helps coach the defense at Valley Christian Senior High in Dublin, California along with former Raider John Parrella. Woodson lives in Pleasanton, California with his wife Nickie and their five children . His son, Demitrius, plays safety and wide receiver there as well as kick returner.

Since 1994, Woodson has operated an annual youth football camp, the Woodson/Fabini Football Camp, on the grounds of his former high school. He is also a partner in Woodson Motorsports, a BMW motorcycle dealership and repair shop in Fort Wayne.

Currently Woodson splits his time between NFL Network studios in Los Angeles, his home in Pleasanton,and his cottage in Coldwater, Michigan. He was also part of the studio team for BBC Sport's NFL coverage in 2007, including Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLIII.

Rod Woodson sponsored a charity benefit dinner and auction on July 25, 2009 at the Oakland Coliseum - just two weeks before he entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame. All proceeds went to the Football and Scholarship programs at Valley Christian School, the high school where Rod coaches.

References

^ Hayes, Reggie (2009-08-03). "Tracing Woodson's path to greatness". Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090803/SPORTS/908030336/1002. Retrieved 2009-08-09. 

^ "Former Boilermaker Rod Woodson Elected To Pro Football Hall Of Fame". Purdue University. http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/013109aab.html. Retrieved 2009-08-09. 

^ Jeanguenat, John (2003-04-29). "Halls of fame induct, honor alumnus". The Exponent. http://www.purdueexponent.org/interface/bebop/showstory.php?date=2003/04/29&section=sports. Retrieved 2008-08-01. 

^ I'll take that!

^ FOOTBALL; Moon Passes Tests After Concussion The New York Times- Published: Wednesday, November 4, 1992

^ a b "Woodson set new standard in backfield". USA Today. 2007-06-21. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-06-21-no-22-woodson_N.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-23. 

^ Attner, Paul (1993-11-29). "The Intimidator". The Sporting News. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n22_v216/ai_14688205/pg_2. Retrieved 2008-09-23. 

^ Hall of Fame: Woodson greatness went beyond stats

^ The Class of 2009 presenters

^ "BBC announce studio team". http://www.nfluk.com/news-display.php?id=2854. Retrieved 2008-09-23. 

^ http://www.rod-woodson-hall-of-fame.com "Rod Woodson HoF Benefit Dinner & Auction". http://www.rod-woodson-hall-of-fame.com http://www.rod-woodson-hall-of-fame.com. Retrieved 2009-07-24. 

External links

Rod Woodson at ESPN.com

Woodson's Stats

Rod Woodson at the Internet Movie Database

AP May 22, 1992

'never Back Down' SI Vault

Story >>I'll take that! profootballhof.com

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Retired Numbers

70

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1987 NFL Draft First Round Selections

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Draft Years

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Pittsburgh Steelers First-round Draft selections

Bill Shakespeare (1936/ #3 overall) | Mike Basrak (1937/ #5) | Byron "Whizzer" White (1938/ #4) | Kay Eakin (1940/ #3) | Bill Dudley (1942/ #1) | Bill Daley (1943/ #7) | Johnny Podesto (1944/ #10) | Paul Duhart (1945/ #2) | Doc Blanchard (1946/ #3) | Hub Bechtol (1947/ #5) | Dan Edwards (1948/ #9) | Bobby Gage (1949/ #6) | Lynn Chandnois (1950/ #8) | Butch Avinger (1951/ #9) | Ed Modzelewski (1952/ #6) | Ted Marchibroda (1953/ #5) | Johnny Lattner (1954/ #7) | Frank Varrichione (1955/ #6) | Gary Glick (1956/ #1) | Art Davis (1956/ #5) | Len Dawson (1957/ #5) | Jack Spikes (1960/ #6) | Bob Ferguson (1962/ #5) | Paul Martha (1964/ #10) | Dick Leftridge (1966/ #3) | Mike Taylor (1968/ #10) | Joe Greene (1969/ #4) | Terry Bradshaw (1970/ #1) | Frank Lewis (1971/ #8) | Franco Harris (1972/ #13) | J. T. Thomas (1973/ #4) | Lynn Swann (1974/ #21) | Dave Brown (1975/ #26) | Bennie Cunningham (1976/ #28) | Robin Cole (1977/ #21) | Ron Johnson (1978/ #22) | Greg Hawthorne (1979/ #28) | Mark Malone (1980/ #28) | Keith Gary (1981/ #17) | Walter Abercrombie (1982/ #12) | Gabriel Rivera (1983/ #21) | Louis Lipps (1984/ #23) | Darryl Sims (1985/ #20) | John Rienstra (1986/ #9) | Rod Woodson (1987/ #10) | Aaron Jones (1988/ #18) | Tim Worley (1989/ #7) | Tom Ricketts (1989/ #24) | Eric Green (1990/ #21) | Huey Richardson (1991/ #15) | Leon Searcy (1992/ #11) | Deon Figures (1993/ #23) | Charles Johnson (1994/ #17) | Mark Bruener (1995/ #27) | Jamain Stephens (1996/ #29) | Chad Scott (1997/ #24) | Alan Faneca (1998/ #26) | Troy Edwards (1999/ #13) | Plaxico Burress (2000/ #8) | Casey Hampton (2001/ #19) | Kendall Simmons (2002/ #30) | Troy Polamalu (2003/ #16) | Ben Roethlisberger (2004/ #11) | Heath Miller (2005/ #30) | Santonio Holmes (2006/ #25) | Lawrence Timmons (2007/ #15) | Rashard Mendenhall (2008/ #23) | Evander Hood (2009/ #32)

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Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl XXXV Champions

3 Matt Stover | 5 Kyle Richardson | 7 Chris Redman | 8 Trent Dilfer | 11 Marcus Nash | 12 Tony Banks | 20 Kim Herring | 21 Chris McAlister | 22 Duane Starks | 25 Clarence Love | 26 Rod Woodson | 29 Chuck Evans | 30 Obafemi Ayanbadejo | 31 Jamal Lewis | 32 Sam Gash | 33 Priest Holmes | 35 Robert Bailey | 38 James Trapp | 42 Anthony Mitchell | 43 Anthony Poindexter | 45 Corey Harris | 50 Brad Jackson | 51 Cornell Brown | 52 Ray Lewis (MVP) | 55 Jamie Sharper | 56 Anthony Davis | 57 O. J. Brigance | 58 Peter Boulware | 60 Jeff Mitchell | 62 Mike Flynn | 64 Edwin Mulitalo | 66 John Hudson | 70 Harry Swayne | 71 Spencer Folau | 72 Sammy Williams | 74 Orlando Bobo | 75 Jonathan Ogden | 77 Kipp Vickers | 79 Larry Webster | 80 Brandon Stokley | 81 Ben Coates | 82 Shannon Sharpe | 83 Patrick Johnson | 84 Jermaine Lewis | 85 John Jones | 86 Billy Davis | 87 Qadry Ismail | 90 Rob Burnett | 91 Lional Dalton | 93 Keith Washington | 95 Sam Adams | 96 Adalius Thomas | 98 Tony Siragusa | 99 Michael McCrary

Head Coach: Brian Billick

Coaches: Matt Cavanaugh | Jim Colletto | Jack Del Rio | Wade Harman | Donnie Henderson | Milt Jackson | Marvin Lewis | Russ Purnell | Rex Ryan | Steve Shafer | Matt Simon | Mike Smith | Bennie Thompson | Paul McCord

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NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award from the Associated Press

1971: Page  1972: Greene  1973: Anderson  1974: Greene (x2)  1975: Blount  1976: Lambert 1977: Martin  1978: Gradishar  1979: Selmon  1980: Hayes  1981: Taylor  1982: Taylor (x2)  1983: Betters  1984: Easley  1985: Singletary  1986: Taylor (x3)  1987: White  1988: Singletary (x2)  1989: Millard  1990: Smith  1991: Swilling  1992: Kennedy  1993: Woodson  1994: D. Sanders  1995: Paup  1996: Smith (x2)  1997: Stubblefield  1998: White (x2)  1999: Sapp  2000: Lewis  2001: Strahan  2002: Brooks  2003: Lewis (x2)  2004: Reed  2005: Urlacher  2006: Taylor  2007: B. Sanders  2008: Harrison  2009: Woodson

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National Football League | NFL's 1990s All-Decade Team

Brett Favre | John Elway | Barry Sanders | Emmitt Smith | Terrell Davis | Thurman Thomas | Cris Carter | Jerry Rice | Tim Brown | Michael Irvin | Shannon Sharpe | Ben Coates | Willie Roaf | Gary Zimmerman | Tony Boselli | Richmond Webb | Bruce Matthews | Randall McDaniel | Larry Allen | Steve Wisniewski | Dermontti Dawson | Mark Stepnoski | Bruce Smith | Reggie White | Chris Doleman | Neil Smith | Cortez Kennedy | John Randle | Warren Sapp | Bryant Young | Kevin Greene | Junior Seau | Derrick Thomas | Cornelius Bennett | Hardy Nickerson | Levon Kirkland | Deion Sanders | Rod Woodson | Darrell Green | Aeneas Williams | Steve Atwater | LeRoy Butler | Carnell Lake | Ronnie Lott | Darren Bennett | Sean Landeta | Morten Andersen | Gary Anderson | Mel Gray | Michael Bates | Bill Parcells | Marv Levy

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National Football League | NFL's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team

Sammy Baugh | Otto Graham | Joe Montana | Johnny Unitas | Jim Brown | Marion Motley | Bronko Nagurski | Walter Payton | Gale Sayers | O.J. Simpson | Steve Van Buren | Lance Alworth | Raymond Berry | Don Hutson | Jerry Rice | Mike Ditka | Kellen Winslow | Roosevelt Brown | Forrest Gregg | Anthony Muoz | John Hannah | Jim Parker | Gene Upshaw | Mel Hein | Mike Webster | Deacon Jones | Gino Marchetti | Reggie White | Joe Greene | Bob Lilly | Merlin Olsen | Dick Butkus | Jack Ham | Ted Hendricks | Jack Lambert | Willie Lanier | Ray Nitschke | Lawrence Taylor | Mel Blount | Mike Haynes | Dick Lane | Rod Woodson | Ken Houston | Ronnie Lott | Larry Wilson | Ray Guy | Jan Stenerud | Billy Johnson

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Pittsburgh Steelers 75th Anniversary Team

Offense: Terry Bradshaw | Jerome Bettis | Rocky Bleier | Franco Harris | Bennie Cunningham | Elbie Nickel | John Stallworth | Lynn Swann | Hines Ward | Larry Brown | Dermontti Dawson | Alan Faneca | Tunch Ilkin | Jon Kolb | Mike Webster

Defense: "Mean" Joe Greene | L.C. Greenwood | Casey Hampton | Ernie Stautner | Dwight White | Jack Ham | Jack Lambert | Greg Lloyd | Joey Porter | Andy Russell | Mel Blount | Jack Butler | Carnell Lake | Troy Polamalu | Donnie Shell | Rod Woodson

Specialists: Gary Anderson | Bobby Walden

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2001 Pro Bowl AFC Starters

Offense

QB Rich Gannon | RB Edgerrin James | FB Richie Anderson | WR Marvin Harrison | WR Eric Moulds | TE Tony Gonzalez

OT Tony Boselli | OT Jonathan Ogden | G Ruben Brown | G Bruce Matthews | C Kevin Mawae

Defense

DE Trace Armstrong | DE Jason Taylor | DT Sam Adams | DT Trevor Pryce

OLB Mo Lewis | OLB Junior Seau | ILB Ray Lewis

CB Sam Madison | CB Samari Rolle | FS Rod Woodson | SS Blaine Bishop

Special Teams

P Darren Bennett | PK Matt Stover | KR Derrick Mason | ST Larry Izzo

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2002 Pro Bowl AFC Starters

Offense

QB Rich Gannon | RB Curtis Martin | FB Larry Centers | WR Marvin Harrison | WR Rod Smith | TE Tony Gonzalez

OT Lincoln Kennedy | OT Jonathan Ogden | G Alan Faneca | G Will Shields | C Kevin Mawae

Defense

DE John Abraham | DE Marcellus Wiley | DT Trevor Pryce | DT John Randle

OLB Jason Gildon | OLB Jamir Miller | ILB Ray Lewis

CB Sam Madison | CB Charles Woodson | FS Rod Woodson | SS Rodney Harrison

Special Teams

P Shane Lechler | PK Jason Elam | KR Jermaine Lewis | ST Ian Gold

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2003 Pro Bowl AFC Starters

Offense

QB Rich Gannon | RB Priest Holmes | FB Lorenzo Neal | WR Marvin Harrison | WR Jerry Rice | TE Tony Gonzalez

OT Jonathan Ogden | OT Willie Roaf | G Alan Faneca | G Will Shields | C Kevin Mawae

Defense

DE Trevor Pryce | DE Jason Taylor | DT Richard Seymour | DT Gary Walker

OLB Joey Porter | OLB Junior Seau | ILB Zach Thomas

CB Aaron Glenn | CB Patrick Surtain | FS Rod Woodson | SS Lawyer Milloy

Special Teams

P Chris Hanson | PK Adam Vinatieri | KR Dante Hall | ST Larry Izzo

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Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2009

Bob Hayes Randall McDaniel Bruce Smith Derrick Thomas Ralph Wilson Rod Woodson

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NFL Total Access

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• BHAGAVAD GITA –"He who hates no single being is friendly and compassionate, free from self-regard and vanity, the same in good and evil, patient; contented, ever devout, subdued in soul, firm in purpose, fixed on Me in heart and mind, and who worships Me, is dear to Me."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"Not by abstention from work does a man attain freedom from action nor by mere renunciation does he attain to his perfection."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"O descendant of Bharat he who dwells in the body is eternal and can never be slain. Therefore, you need not grieve for any creature."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs into the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"Preseverance in (seeking to gain) the knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and perception of the gain that comes from knowledge of the truth: This is called knowledge: all that is contrary to this is ignorance."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"Sanjay said "0 King" having thus spoken to Sri Krishna, Arjuna aga said to Him, "I will not fight" and became silent."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"That man is disciplines and happy who can prevail over the turmoil That springs from desire and anger, here on earth, before he leaves his body."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"The path of the Unmannifest is very difficult for embodied souls. But quickly I come to the who offer me every action, who worship me only, their dearest delight, with undaunted devotion. Because they love me, these are my bondsmen, and I shall save them from mortal sorrow and all the waves of life's deathly ocean."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains thi supreme perfection of freedom from karma through renunciation."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from karma through renunciation."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"The soul that meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"This is true knowledge; to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance."
• BHAGAVAD GITA –"Whatever you do, make it an offering to me - the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering."
• BHAGAVADGITA –"Eyes are a precious gift given by the Almighty."
• BHAGAVADGITA –"The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge."
• BIBLE –"Health and good eastate of body are above all good."
• BIBLE –"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life."
• BIBLE –"Our generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever."
• BILL VAUGHN –"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."
• BLACK –"No need to run and hide/ it's a wonderful, wonderful life/ No need to run and hide/ it's a wonderful, wonderful life/ wonderful life, wonderful life."
• BLOGGER KIRAN PARMAR –"So we now know the Arjuna has become silent and there is nothing more he wishe to say. He is ready to listen to Krishna. Silence is the final surrender to God."
• BONNIERAITT –"Religion is for those who are seared of hell. Spirituality is for those who've been there."
• BRAHMAKUMARIS –"Life is not an iPod to listen to your favourite songs. It's a radio. Adjust yourself to enjoy whatever comes your way."
• BRAHMAKUMARIS –"With ego, you lash out when someone insults, disagrees or criticizes you. Without ego, you're able to accept your flaws without compromising your worth."
• BRIHAD GAUTAMIYA TANTRA –"The transcendental goddess Radharan the direct counter? of Sri Krishna. She is the central figure for all goddesses of fortune. She attracts the all-attractive personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord."
• BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD –"He in whom desire has been stilled suffers no rebirth. After death, having attained to the highest, desiring only the Self, he goes to no other world. Realising Brahmn, he becomes Brahmn. Freed from the body, he becomes one with the immortal spirit, Brahmn, the Light eternal."
• BRUCE LEE –"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
• BUDDHA –"Being deeply learned and skilled, beingwell trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck."
• BYRON –"There's music in the sighing of a reed;/ There's music in the gushing of a rill;/ There's music in all things, if men had ears:/ Their earth is but an echo of the spheres."
• CHAITANYA CHARITAMRITA –"Krishna's desire tn it raas leela is complete and Radhika is the binding link in that desire. Without her, Krishna does not like the raas leela."
• CHANAKYA –"The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."
• CHANAKYA NITI –"He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification. How can he who seeks sense gratification acquire knowledge, and he who possesses knowledge enjoy mundane sense pleasure?"
• CHANDOGYA UPANISHA –"A person is what his deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come. So let us direct our deepest desires to realise the Self."
• CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD –" The Infinite is the source of joy. There is no joy in the finite. Only in the Infinite is there joy. Ask to know the Infinite."
• CHARLES LAMB –"A number of moralists...judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses."
• CHARLES LAMB –"Herecometh April again, and as far as I can see, the world hath more fools in it than ever."
• CHIEF SEATTLE –"Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shiningpine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people."
• CHINESE PROVERB –"Good luck seldom comes in pairs but bad things never occur alone."
• CHINESE PROVERB –"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same."
• CLARENCE ODDBODY –"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"
• DALAI LAMA –"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
• DAVE BARRY –"We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it."
• DAVID CAMERON –"Inaia is one of the fastest grow ing economies in the world - one of the stars of the future."
• DEEPAK CHOPRA –"If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up."
• DIVAN-E SHAMS-E TABRIZI –"Fasting is as our sacrifice, it is the life of our soul; let us sacrifice all our body, since the soul has arrived as guest... Wash your hands and your mouth, neither eat nor speak; seek that speech and that morsel which has come to the silent ones."
• DON WILLIAM –"God, despite his casual silence, still exists."
• DON WILLIAMS, JR –"Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal."
• EARL OF BEACONSFIELD –"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
• EDWARD W SMITH –"Once the game or test or project is underway. It is too late to prepare to win. The actual game, test or project is just the end of a long process of getting ready, in which the outcome was really determined. So if you want to win, you must want to prepare to win."
• EIBERT HUBBARD –"A failure is a man who Has blundered, but is Not able to cash in on the experience."
• ERNEST HEMINGWAY –"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
• FRIDA BEDI –"Bibij I fasted a whole month long,/ Now it's all over, let's sing a song;/ O thread of silver, night's precious boon,/Rising with us, little Eid moon."
• GANESH GAYATRI MANTRA –"O Lord Vinayaka! The remover of all obstacles, the sun of Lord Shiva, with a form which is very short with mouse as vehicle with sweet pudding hand, with wide ears and long hanging trunk I prostrate at Thy lotus-like Feet!"
• GANESHA MANTRA –"Oh! Lord (Ganesha), of huge form and curved elephant trunk, whose brilliance is equal to billions of suns, always remove all obstacles from my endeavours."
• GANGAJI –"Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognised, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!"
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"Fit And Fine Health is the great gift, contentment the greatest wealth faithfulness the best relationship."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"He who seeks happiness/ By hurting those who seek happiness/ Will never find happiness./ For your brother and sister are like you./ They want to be happy./ Never harm them./ And when you leave this life/ You too will find happiness."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, and not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"Those who really seek the path to enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination."
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it... Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."
• GEORGE BERNARD SHAW –"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
• GEORGE ORWELL –"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
• GEORGE W BUSH –"I Know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
• GEORGIA HARKNESS –"The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world."
• GURU GOBINDSINGH –"For this purpose was I born/ Understand all you pious people,/To uphold righteousness, to protect the worthy and/ To overcome and destroy evildoers."
• GURU GRANTH SAHIB –"When the game of life; let your mind surrender and accept death."
• GURU NANAK –"First accept death and discard the hope of life. And become the dust of the feet of all, only then you come to me."
• GURU NANAK –"Know ye the true knowledge and meditation to be the Sound Divine, Blessed is the evergreen tree with the immense shade."
• HAL BORLAND –"April is a promise that May is bound to keep."
• HELEN KELLER –"The most pathetic per in the world is someo who has sight, but has no vision."
• HENRY VAN DYKE –"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."
• HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE –"Cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to pleaseeverybody."
• HINDU MANTRA –"I am tying a Rakhi on you, like the one on mighty demon king Bali. Be firm. Rakhi, do not falter."
• HIPPOCRATES –"We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth."
• IBN ARABI –"God is your mirror in which you contemplate yourself and you are His mirror in which He contemplates his divine attributes."
• IBN RAJABAL-HANBALI –"Ramzan, the field of cultivation for the servant has come, to purify the hearts from corruption and vices. Therefore, adhere to its rights, in word and deed, And take it as your provision for the final return (Hereafter). For whoever plants seeds and fails to water them, Will wail with regret on the day of harvest."
• IMRAN KHAN –"The people who are found guilty should be removed from the team and punished As an example for future generations to realise that crime does not pay."
• ISRAEL ZANGWILL –"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."
• J J DEWEY –"Those who go 'with the flow' give energy to the pendulum to swing to the extreme of the direction it is heading. On the other hand, those who apply the path of most resistance work to make the pendulum swing the opposite direction so it will again pass over the centre point."
• JALALUDDIN RUMI –"There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes. When the soundbox is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you..."
• JAWAHARLAL NEHRU –"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play is your own will."
• JEAN DE LA FONTAINE –"Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide."
• JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –"Illumination or enlightenment doesn't demand preparation. Because preparation involves time, many lives, or many years. Right? That's your tradition. You accept it so you say, well, i must, life after life, struggle to achieve ultimately this enlightenment which will give me complete happiness. What is necessary is to begin with freedom, and that freedom goes with intelligence, not to do what you like. That freedom is responsibility, integrity."
• JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI –"The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence."
• JIM GARREY –"I think if we all acted the way we really felt, four out of eight people at a dinner tabiewould be sitting there sobbing."
• JIM MORRISON –"You cannot petition the Lord with prayer."
• JIM ROHN –"Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration."
• JOEY ADAMS –"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions."
• JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH –"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
• JOHN LENNON –"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."
• JONATHAN SWIFT –"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
• JUDGE M L TAHALIYANI –"I don't find any case of a lesser punishment than death in the case of waging war against India, murder and terrorist acts."
• K SHELDRAKE –"Hussain marched with his little company not to glory, not to power or wealth, but to a supreme sacrifice and every member of that gallant band, male and female, knew that the foes were implacable, were not only ready to fight but to kill. Denied even water for children, they remained parched under a burning sun, amid scorching sands yet no one faltered for a moment and bravely faced the greatest odds withoutflinching."
• KABIR –"Hang up the swing of love today! Hang the body and the mind between the arms of the beloved, the ecstasy of love's joy."
• KABIR –"True surrender include both body and mind, that is, total surrender Body and heart function together. Then only surrender becomes complete. Nothing remains to surrender thereafter."
• KAHLIL GIBRAN –"Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy."
• KAHLIL GIBRAN –"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter it take with you your all."
• KAPIL SIBAL –"When the demand exists why should we send our children out? India has the potential to become a global provider of quality graduates."
• KATHOPANISHAD –"Going outward is inborn to us. Hannce, we see the outer chings and not the inner Self. Only a rare, discriminating, brave person, desiring everlasting bliss and peace, turns his eyes away from the external and searches within."
• LUCILLE BALL –"I would rather regret the things that I have donettanthethings that I have not done."
• M K GANDHI –"There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free, we are but slaves. All birth takes place in a moment."
• M K GANDHI –"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
• MAHA NARAYANA UPANISHAD –"Truthfulness is excellent. What is excellent is truthfulness only. By truthfulness those who have attained to the state ofblissfulness never fall from there."
• MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI –"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
• MANDELA –"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
• MANMOHAN SINGH –"I believe we should challenge ourselves by acknowledging that the glass of regional cooperation...is half empty."
• MANMOHAN SINGH –"I share the grief, the sorrow and the sense of loss of every mother, every father, every family and every child in Kashmir."
• MANMOHAN SINGH –"We are committed to ensuring that all children, irrespective of gender and social category, have access to edication - an education that enables them to acquire the skills, knowledge, values and attitudes necessary to become responsible and active citizens of India."
• MANMOHAN SINGH –"While we are taking steps to improve dissemination ofinformation...there are some issues that cannot be dealt with except by amending the Act."
• MARGARET BONNANO –"Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time."
• MARGARET THATCHER –"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of monet for its own sake."
• MARK CUBAN –"If you don t follow llw stock market, you are missing some amazing drama."
• MARK TWAIN –"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual New Year resolutions. Next week you can begain paving hell with them as usual."
• MUNDAKA UPANISHAD –"All knowledge can be divided into two categories: para vidyc andaparavidya. Knowledge that leads to Self-realisation is called para vidya or divine knowledge. Everything else is called apara vidya or knowledge of the material world."
• MUNDAKA UPANISHAD –"Within the lotus of the heart he dwells, where the nerves meet like the spokes of a wheel at its hub. Meditate on him as OM. Easily may you cross the sea of darkness."
• N GOPALASWAMI –"Apart from increasing the awareness of caste, it (caste census) will accentuate the worst trend of caste politics in the country."
• NAGARJUNA –"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still."
• NIZAMUDDIN AULIYA –"0 breeze! turn towards Medina (and) from this well-wisher recite the Salaam./ Turn round the king of the prophets (and) with the utmost humility recite the Salaam. Sometimes pass the gate of mercy (and) with the gate of Gabriel rule the forehead. Salaam to the prophet of God (and) sometimes recite Salaam at the gate of peace. Put with all respect the head of faith on the dust there."
• NURSERY RHYME –"The best six doctors Anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly attend to you If only you are willing Your mind they'll ease Your will they'll mend And charge you not a shilling."
• OSCAR WILDE –"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
• OSHO –"Express your uniqueness in whatsoever you do. Express your individuality. Let existence be proud of you. Then life will not be felt like a drag; it will become a fragrance."
• OSHO –"The only way to be desireless is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot enter."
• OSHO –"You are truth. You are love. You are bliss. You are freedom."
• OSHO –"You will need civilization, culture, education, but don't get identified with them. They are games. One can play them because one has to live in society..."
• P CHIDAMBARAM –"We must remain ever vigilant and continue to build, at the central and state levels, our capacity in counterterrorism."
• PADRNA PURAN –"Of all the Gopis Radharani is the Lord's most beloved."
• PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA –"0 spirit, teach us to heal the body by recharging it with Thy cosmic energy, to heal the mind by concentration and cheerfulness, and to heal the disease of soul ignorance by the divine medicine of meditation on Thee."
• PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA –"Change your thoughts if you wish to change your circumstances. Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain."
• PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA –"Do not lament if you see no lights or images in meditation. Go deep into the perception of bliss; there you will find the actual presence of God. Seek not a part but the Whole."
• PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA –"Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God."
• PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA –"Start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness."
• PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA –"When you seek God, make even a short meditation so intense that it will seem you have spent hours with Him."
• RAM DASS –"Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualises people naturally."
• RAM DASS –"The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering."
• RAMAKRISHNA –"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."
• RAMAKRISHNA –"If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled."
• RAMANA MAHARSHI –"If you meditate in the right manner, then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work It is as though there were two ways of expressing the same idea; the same line that you take in meditation will be expressed in your activities."
• RAMANA MAHARSHI –"There are two ways. One is looking into the source ofl' and merging into that source. The other is feeling "I am helpless by myself, God alone is all-powerful and except by throwing myself completely on him, there is no other means of safety for me." By this method one gradually develops the conviction that God alone exists and that the ego does not count. Both methods lead to the same goal. Complete surrender is another name forjnana or liberation."
• RIG VEDA –"He who gives liberally goes straight to the gods; on the high ridge of heaven he stands exalted."
• RIG VEDA –"If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds herself according to seasons and performs his karma then only shall he acquire happiness. One who does this successfully gains in all walks of life."
• RIG VEDA –"Meet together. speak together, Let your mind be of one accord, As the Gods of old, being of one mind, Accepted their share of the sacrifice."
• RIG VEDA –"Sit down among the worshippers, 0 Ganapati, the best sage among sages. Without You nothing can be done here or far. Accept with honour, 0 wealthy One, our great and variegated hymns of praise."
• RIG VEDA –"We invoke You, 0 Ganapa ti of the ganas, Shiva's attendants, the wisest among the wise, abounding in treasure beyond all measure, the most brilliant one. Do listen to our prayers, come with Your blessings and assurances of protection into our home, and be seated."
• RITA RUDNER –"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
• ROBERT BROWNING –"Oh, to be in England now that April's there."
• ROBERT COLLIER –"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
• RONALD REAGAN –"Republicans believe every day is the fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15."
• S RADHAKRISHNAN –"The end-product of education should be a free, creative person, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities."
• SADDAM HUSSEIN –"We are ready to sacrifice our souls so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one wilt think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons."
• SAGE VASISHTHA –"Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only by means of inquiry inspired by the company of wise and holy men. One's inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia."
• SAI BABA –"Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world."
• SAKYONG MIPHAM –"Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtu- ously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, the result is suffering."
• SAMAVEDAM –"The Sama Veda is the Yoga of Song. It consists of various hymns of the Rig Veda put to a different and more musical chant. Hence the text of the Sama Veda is a reduced version of the Rig Veda. Its secret is in its musical annotation and rendering. The Sama Veda represents the ecstasy of spiritual knowledge and the power of devotion. The Rig Veda is the word, the Sama Veda is the song or the meaning."
• SATHYA SAI BABA –"Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it."
• SATHYA SAI BABA –"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."
• SATHYA SAI BABA –"You must speak softly and sweetly and give everyone the respect and attention due to them sincerely. Humility and tolerance must characterise your behaviour as a devotee. When calm descends and the waters are still, the shadow of the Sun within the lake is one full image."
• SENECA –"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
• SHAH ABDUL KARIM –"First lose yourself, Then only you can find Him, The Beloved is not separate from you, Just turn your face within."
• SHAH MEHMOOD QURESHI –"I will not create any false hopes... It is an uphill task. Don't expect miracles overnight."
• SHVETASHVATARA UPANISHAD –"Know God and all fetters will fall away. No longer identifying yourself with the body, go beyond birth and death. All your desires will be fulfilled in him Who is One without a second. Meditate and realise this world is filled with the presence of God."
• SHWETASHWATARA UPANISHAD –"Like a chariot drawn by wild horses is the mind, the man of knowledge should hold it in with an unswerving attention."
• SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –"Life has the nobler goal of self-illumination, of lighting the lamp of love inside oneself and sharing that lamp with all around us."
• SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –"Many New Years have gone by. But to what extent have we transformer ourselves? We should tread a new and noble path and set an ideal to others. Only then would we have celebrated the arrival of New Year in the true sense. We should practise and propagate newer ideals in our daily life. Vedanta declares, Aham etat na -I am not this. Aham means T, the Atmic principle and 'this' refers to body. We should not give scope to ahamkara or ego by identifying ourselves with the body. 'I' does not correspond to the body. 'I' corresponds to the eternal and immortal Atma, which is not tainted by ego, pomposity, and immorality. Only when we develop such Atma viswasa or Self-confidence can we set an ideal to others."
• SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR –"The spirit of sports is destroyed by business getting involved. Sports should simply bring lightness, laughter and entertainment. When business enters it, its very soul is destroyed. Unfortunately so much dirt has corrupted sports. It needs cleaning up more than the Yamuna!"
• SRI SUTRA NANDI –"The aspirant is enjoined to sit in solitude and meditate with singlepointed attention."
• SRILA PRABHUPADA –"If one can develop his unflinching love for the transcendental Supreme personality of Godhead. that can give complete satisfaction; otherwise there is no possibility of satisfaction in the material world or anywhere else."
• SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM –"With their measured treads, the motions of their hands, the playful movements of their eye-brows accompanied with graceful smiles, bending waists, shaking breasts and fluttering skirts of their garments, earrings swinging against their cheeks, perspiring faces and their braids and girdles loosened because of their swift movements, and singing His glories, Krishna's gopis shone brightly like flashes of lightning in a mass of clouds."
• ST THOMAS AQUINAS –"Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life."
• ST VINCENT MILLAY –"April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers."
• STEPHEN LEVINE –"The experience of love arises when we surrender our separateness into the universal. It is a feeling of unity. You don't love another, you are another."
• STEVEN WEINBERG –"Religion is an insult to human dignity. You'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things. For good people to do bad things, it takes religion."
• SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA –"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.... Everyone points to the other man, who, according to him, is happier. But the only one, who has the courage to declare that he is truly happy, is he who has relinquished all his passions and hungers from within."
• SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA –"To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness."
• SWAMI MAHESHWARANANDA –"All people belong to one family. We should love, help and care for each other. We should be here for each other. With the blessings of the Almighty Lord, it will be our first step and contribution towards a better, peaceul, divine world, leading is towards harmony and togetherness amongst all human beings."
• SWAMI RAMDAS –"We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally."
• SWAMI VIVEKANANDA –"Shattered be the little self, hope, name and fame;/ Set up a pyre of them and make thy heart/ A burning ground/And let Shyama dance there."
• SWAMI VIVEKANANDA –"The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience."
• SWAMI VIVEKANANDA –"The word karma is derived from the Sanskrit kri, 'to do'. All action is karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics it sometimes means the effects of which our past actions were the causes."
• SWAMI VIVEKANANDA –"Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work can do so."
• TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD –"There are two ways of contemplation of Brahmn: in sound and in silence. By sound we go to silence. The sound of Brahmn is OM. With OM we go to the End: the silence of Brahmn. The end is immortality, union and peace. Even as a spider reaches the liberty of space by means of its own thread, the man of contemplation by means of OM reaches freedom."
• THE BIBLE –"And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought Him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched Him were made whole."
• THE BIBLE –"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity."
• THE DALAI LAMA –"It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live."
• THE MAHABHARATA –"Health is best of all gains and peace of mind is the best of all happiness."
• THE XIV DALAI LAMA –"Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness."
• THICH NHAT HANH –"The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our heart, some stability in our heart, some peace in our heart. Only then will we be able to relieve the suffering around us."
• THICH NHAT HANH –"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness."
• THOMAS CARLYLE –"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."
• THOMAS JEFFERSON –"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."
• THOMAS MANN –"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year."
• TIRUMURAI –"Plough with truth. Plai the seed of desire for knowledge. Weed out falsehood. Irrigate the mind with the water of patience. Supervise your work by introspection and self-analysis."
• TIRUVALLUVAR –"Though you speak unkind words to a man's face, do not speak words behind his back heedless of consequent harm./ Though every word is full of kindly virtue, a man's mean back-biting will betray his empty heart."
• TOM HARKIN –"We will not give in to terrorists... We will win this struggle - not for ; glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, freedom, and for peace."
• TS ELIOT –"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."
• UDDHAVA –"My heart is greatly astonished when I remember the mellows of the raas leela, that increased even the astonishment of Sri Hari!"
• UNKNOWN –"I sought my soul, but my soul i could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and i found all three."
• UPANISHADS –"Meditation and Action: He who knows these two together/ Through action leaves death behind, And through meditation gains immortality."
• VIDAGDHA MADHAUA –"Although the effulgence of the moon is brilliant initially at night, in the daytime it fades away. Similarly, although the lotus is beautiful during the daytime, at night it closes. But, 0 My friend, the face of My most dear Radharani is always bright and beautiful, both day and night."
• VINCENT V GOGH –"But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing."
• VIVEKANANDA –"Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is His business."
• WAY NE DYER –"The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives."
• WAYNE DYER –"You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well."
• WILLIAM FEATHER –"Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right."
• WINSTON CHURCHILL –"The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness."
• YAJUR VEDA –"May the Lord of Speech make our voice sweet and soft. We should always be soft spoken; doing so would attract one and all On the contrary, vitriolic speech keeps people away. That is why one should always be soft spoken so that it enhances brotherhood and affection."
• YOGA VASISHTA –"0 Rama, there is no intellect, no ignorance, no mind and no individual soul (jiva). They are all imagined in Brahmn. Like an empty vessel in space, the knower of Truth is empty both within and without, while at the same time he is full within and without like a vessel immersed in the ocean... The idea of Self in the non-Self is bondage. Abandonment of it is liberation. There is neither bondage nor liberation for the ever-free Self."
• YOGA VASISHTA –"Nobody is born or dies at anytime: It is the mind that conceives its birth and death and its migration to other bodies and other worlds."

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