Shayri Quotes

Be thine own palace,

or the world's thy jail

John Donne

Adapt what is useful,

reject what is useless,

and add what is specifically your own.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.

Philosophically considered,

the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us,

all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is,

both nature and art,

all other men and my own body,

must be ranked under this name,

Nature.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of Success.

To improve is to change;

to be perfect is to change often.

Joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The past is already gone,

the future is not yet here.

You can’t be witty without observing the absurdities around you.

At the end of the day

the most overwhelming

key to a child's success

is the positive

involvement of parents.

I love the smell of rain

and I love the sound of

the ocean waves.

We are cups,

constantly and quietly being filled.

The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over

and let the beautiful stuff out.

Learning how to be still,

to really be still and let life happen

that stillness becomes a radiance.

Loyalty over everything.

Let us not be too particular;

it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

History is the version of past events

that people have decided to agree upon.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old;

we grow old because we stop playing.

I could tell my parents hated me.

My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.