“DON’T KILL! You, oh poor, under oppressions.” “BE FAIR! You, oh rich, over dominions.” “DON’T STEAL! You, oh poor, grudging the wealthy.” “GIVE LOVE! You, oh rich, courting poor’s envy.” “WORK HARD! You, oh poor, craving to be rich.” “CHILL OUT! You, oh rich, wanting more to reach.” “ACT NOW! You, oh poor, so pleased with wishing.” “LEAVE SOME! You, oh rich, so filled with grasping.”
“August 25 “Spare the rod, spoil the child”—is for beasts wild; “Point the error, show the horror”—for child. Why seek formation through physical pain, when children are humans with heart and brain.”
“THREE TYPES OF FOLKS who hastened their fortune: The SMART who had ears for breaks opportune; the LUCKY who tripped on gold of high tune; the CROOK who braved the wrath of the communes.”
“At nightfall, there was a sudden brownout; how annoying, hence people just stayed out. When power came back, loud the rejoicing; but prior to brownout, none a-clapping. All along our loved ones are there around, waiting for attention, none came around. When at once we lose them, loud the mourning; but prior to losing, none a-caring.”
“For as long as there’s greed and corruption, there’ll always be crimes and destitution. Till it’s the corrupt ever at the helm, if ills do get worse, don’t be overwhelmed.”
“How preachers talk about virtue of “LOVE,” then pass by a trump sleeping on a slab; or about the virtue of “CHARITY,” then ask for help even from the needy. How the pols talk about “INTEGRITY,” then can’t explain how they’ve gotten wealthy; or about the promised “PROSPERITY,” then turned out it’s for them, not the country.”
“Do we say that the child got no parents, just because we could not find his parents? Do we say the world got no creator, just because we couldn’t find its Creator?”
“In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and memory were but a blink from death.”
“The delight and exquisiteness of life is in self-introspection.”
“If you are known to the people you’ll preach, be sure you are modeling what you preach. For if you do not model what you preach, be sure you’re a stranger to them you’ll preach.”
“What is beauty? Why is this world obsessed with beauty? It is a pathetic way of measuring your worth in the eyes of another. How can one person or the majority decide who is beautiful and who is not? Why are people all over the world being driven to adopt standards of beauty? Why do we have beauty pageants? The world is making people want to look beautiful but not be beautiful. The world is making the new generation self- conscious about external looks. The new generation is becoming superficial. There is no depth in people. True beauty is not in how we look. It is in how we love, care, and share.”
“You have to take all the rejections that life will throw at you. We do not grow in happiness, but we grow in sadness. Each rejection teaches us something new.”
“If you do not know where you are going, you can’t say “NO” to almost anything. If you know too well where you are going, you can’t say “YES” to any time-wasting.”
“June 11 SELF-DISCIPLINE is a great strength for man— “doing what’s really supposed to be done”; but PERSISTENCE is a far greater one— “keeping the fight on till problems there stand.”
“Criticism works like sculptor’s chisel: It brings creation to desired model. If satisfied as you are, ignore it; if you’re looking for perfection, heed it;”
“You say you love your folks, so obey them. You say you love your friends, so respect them. You say you have great faith, so mirror it. You say you have a goal, so pursue it. As our lips declare who we say we are, our behavior shows who we truly are. Genuine people match their words with actions; hypocrites match their words with pretensions.”
“INTEGRITY is perfect honesty in great wealth or in extreme poverty, within view or out of view of people, borne of either one’s faith or principle.”