Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- originated in 3rd century BC in Greek
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues
- Shakespeare
Beauty, like supreme dominion, Is but supported by opinion
- Benjamin Franklin
Thanks to www.publicdomainpictures.net for the "rose" image.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
- Publilius Syrus
The below is an interesting perspective by Tagore. I find no description or explanation to be necessary; the verse is simple and thoughtful. This is from Tagore's Gitanjali ("Song Offerings"). Thanks to Tagore for the poem and www.schoolofwisdom.com for the online version and the image.
Leave This
Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!
Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?
Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground
and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.
He is with them in sun and in shower,
and his garment is covered with dust.
Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Deliverance?
Where is this deliverance to be found?
Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation;
he is bound with us all for ever.
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense!
What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained?
Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
A cute poem by W.B.Yeats to a squirrel.
Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the shaking tree
As though I'd a gun
To strike you dead?
When all I would do
Is to scratch your head
And let you go.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. Alexander Graham Bell
A Kabir's Doha:
Slowly slowly O mind, everything in own pace happens
Gardner may water a hundred buckets, fruit arrives only in its season
What a beautiful metaphor which one can relate to!
Tribute to Kabir.
Thanks to www.boloji.com
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
This is one of the best poems I have ever read; especially the last stanza is heart touching to me whenever I read. Tribute to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for such a wonderful piece of work.
A Psalm Of Life
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.
Love is the subtlest force in the world.
Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
- Gandhi
Thanks to Gandhi for the quotes and to www.mkgandhi.org for the online version and image.
A beautiful poem by Emily Dickinson as below. Thanks to Emily and www.poetseers.org
I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too --
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
- Arthur Gordon
Thanks to Arthur Gordon and to www.thinkexist.com for the quote
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
Thanks to Leonardo and to www.thinkexist.com for the quote
Doha is a two line verse. I browsed for Kabir's dohas and came across a wonderful site - http://www.boloji.com/kabir/dohas/
Not only an English translation is given in the site, but also a possible explanation with an interesting perspective is, for every doha.
Here goes a translated doha. For explanation, please visit the site. Thanks to Kabir and to www.boloji.com
Tomorrows work do today, today's work now
if the moment is lost, the work be done how
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
Thanks to George Bernard Shaw for the quote and to www.wisdomquotes.com for the online version.
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