"The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility."

-- Radhanath Swami

#Humility Quotes #Transcendental Quotes #Devotional Quotes

“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”
“The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.”
“In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a large jar of these insects, and made every teacher take one and hold it while I was speaking. If any one dropped the insect, I stopped till he picked it up. This was at that time a great innovation, and excited much laughter and derision. There can be no true progress in the teaching of natural science until such methods become general.”
“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hiâ€”much less try to develop a meaningful relationshipâ€”since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.”
“Embrace life. You have life. There's a lot things going on out there.”

Source : Source: elitedaily.com
“You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.”
“Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Jan 23, 2012

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