Great Throughts Treasury

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Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

One, who earns leadership of the masses by working ceaselessly for people's welfare finally realizes that he has been rewarded with many added advantages.

Birth | Evil | Good | Wife | Happiness |

Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

Enthusiasm | Success | Blessed |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

It takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes.

Cultivation | Delusion | Hypothesis | Means | People | Present | Wealth | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

One should strive to maintain good health by taking balanced diet and exercising regularly.

Mind | Peace | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Do not go about proclaiming that you are a sect, distinct and separate from those who adore God in other Forms and Names; thereby, you are limiting the very God whom you are extolling.

Joy | Life | Life | Will | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Enshrine the Feet of the Guru within your heart; your pains, enemies and bad luck shall be destroyed.

Growth | Individual | Success |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

One, who does not cast evil eyes on her 'own' house... who does not have malevolence towards her husband... giver of joy...seeker of family's welfare... who treads on the righteous path... gives happiness to all... serves all... gives birth to good sons... keeps her brother-in-laws satisfied and gives nourishing food...May such a wife help us attain prosperity.

Knowledge | Prosperity | Wishes | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Prayer has been made to mother earth that She blesses us with the knowledge required to exploit the treasures of the nature but without disturbing the environmental balance.

Success |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Those, who get attracted by ignorance and superficial worldly pleasures meet their ends early.

Good | Respect | Success | Wealth | Respect |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

We should always be ready to work diligently.

Death | Life | Life | Power | Prosperity | Strength | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The tongue is the armor of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.

Peace | Personality | Will | Happiness |

Yajur Veda, or Yajurveda

A man should tread on the path of truth for not only his own but for the benediction of entire humanity.

Body | Mind | Sound | Success |

Yajur Veda, or Yajurveda

By emulating learned ones can one attain wisdom necessary to discriminate between evil and good. These great souls have attained knowledge after great contemplation and hence their wisdom is unquestionable.

Good | Joy | Happiness |

Yajur Veda, or Yajurveda

If we try our hand at something of which we have no knowledge and experience then failures and disappointments are inevitable.

Chance | Fear | Opinion | Work | Happiness |

Yajur Veda, or Yajurveda

If we take the opinion of experts of that field and follow his advises there are every chance of accomplishing that work easily and without much problem. Therefore we should follow such a path that leads to happiness and where there is no fear of going astray.

Peace | Qualities | Wife | Happiness |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

People | Reality | Success |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

Reason | Happiness |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

The unknown, said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. No Handdara, no Yomesh, no hearthgods, nothing. But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. ... Tell me, Genry, what is known? What is sure, unpredictable, inevitable -- the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?

Evil | Pain | Treason | Trouble | Happiness |

Valmiki NULL

The strong of heart do not become angry.

Happiness |

Valmiki NULL

Wise men say that the root of victory is consultation and discussion with learned and wise men. .

Friend | Sorrow | Happiness |