The best criticism doesn’t trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Criticism, Critics
A single tree will never make an orchard.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
A racing mind that reacts sensitively to little things indicates thinking that has lost its spiritual strength. Meditation restores that power.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Meditation
If you’re going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you’re going to give money make sure nobody else is around.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Money
Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Kindness
When you have an ass for a friend, expect nothing but kicks.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Expectations
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Life and Living, Life
All of us are pleasure-seeking creatures. So you can say that directly or indirectly we are all seeking Krishna. Chanting Hare Krishna is a way of seeking Krishna directly.
—Indian Proverb
Free energy technology is here, now. It offers the world pollution-free, energy abundance for everyone, everywhere.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Abundance
Oppression can only survive through silence.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Oppression
The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Work
Patience is counting down without blasting off
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Patience
Three wise women would have…
asked directions,
arrived on time,
helped deliver the baby,
cleaned the stable,
made a casserole,
brought practical gifts,
and there would be peace on Earth.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Christmas
A blog is merely a tool that lets you do anything from change the world to share your shopping list.
—Indian Proverb
Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger object there. Very often we look (or converse) with a person, and we see or are aware of only a small sliver of their life and we may think that is all there is. Try to get to know more about the whole person!
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Judgment, Judging
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Feelings, Love
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Opinions
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them … work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls … family, health, friends and spirit … are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Living, Doing Your Best, Family
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Business
Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems… they are not people without problems.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Problems
He who strikes the first blow admits he’s lost the argument.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Arguments
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird’s life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Grief
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Confidence, Questions
The wisest man is he who does not believe he is wise.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
When in doubt, tell the truth.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Truth, Character, Doubt
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Critics, Criticism
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
—Indian Proverb
The well being of the people is the supreme law.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
Make a wrong doer feel shy, by doing him a favour.
—Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
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