Meditation Calendar M

1 April

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

William R Alger. 1822-1905

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert South, 1634-1716

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.

Antoine Bret, 1717-1792

Favour and disgrace are like fear.
Favour is in a higher place, and disgrace is in a lower.
When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear.

Lao-Tzu, fl. BCE 600

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Cicero, BCE 106-43

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Publilius Syrus, BCE 85-43

With true friends ... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Chinese Proverb

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epicurus, BCE 341-270

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

Yes, loving is a painful thrill
And not to love more painful still;
But oh, it is the worst of pain
To love and not be lov'd again.

Thomas Moore, 1779-1852

Valour grows by daring, fear by hesitation.

Publilius Syrus, BCE 85-43

If you wish to get rid of your evil propensities, you must keep far from evil companions.

Seneca, BCE ?1-65 CE

All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882

The joys that spring from external associations bring pain; they have their beginnings and their endings. The wise man does not rejoice in them.

Bhagavad-Gita, c. 0 CE

He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.

Bhagavad-Gita, c. 0 CE

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-18943

Let none think to fly the danger
For soon or late love is his own avenger.

George Byron (6th Baron), 1788-1824

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586

Let no man be sorry he has done good because others have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

Henry Fielding, 1707-1754

Things done well and with a care exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?

An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay, 1685-1732

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Swami Sivananda, 1887-1963

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

Bovee, 1820-1904

Love is a pearl of purest hue,
But stormy waves are round it;
And dearly may a woman rue
The hour wherein she found it.

Letitia Landon, 1802-1838

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives in our weakness strength unto our foe.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?

But, by all thy nature's weakness,
Hidden faults and follies known,
Be thou, in rebuking evil,
Conscious of thine own.

John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done, is done.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

William Hazlitt, 1778-1830

The wise, realising through meditation the timeless Self, beyond all perception, deep in the cave of the heart, leave pleasure and pain far behind.

Upanishads, c. BCE 800