Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting
convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
-- Bertrand Russell

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-- Krishnamurti

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
-- Margaret Peters

Do not consider painful what is good for you.
-- Euripides

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark Twain

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
-- Confucius

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
-- Franklin P. Adams

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is
nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which
he is clothed, and not to be able to estimate the worth and degree of each
thing accordingly?
-- Michelangelo

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates
that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a
majority of the people.
--David Edwards, British columnist, "Burning All Illusions"

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is.
And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.
-- Auguste Rodin

I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
-- Linus Van Pelt, Peanuts

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
-- Jay Leno

another version:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day;
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime;
give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress
requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-- Russell Baker

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,
where it often substitutes for both.
-- John Andrew Holmes

"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."
--Ira Gassen

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
--William James

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than
to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.
--A. A. Hodge

Sanatana Dharma or Vedic Dharma (Vedicism) is the proper name for Hinduism. The terms Hindu and Hinduism are misnomers, just as Mohammedan and Mohammedanism are misnomers for Muslims and Islam. The term Hindu is originally a geographic definition used by the ancient Iranians to label all the peoples living in the lands of the Indus Valley or east of the Indus River regardless of religious affinity or faith. The term Hindu was later adopted by the Arabs who conquered Sassanid Iran and then expanded towards the the Indian sub-continent. As the Altaic peoples, such as Mongolian and Turkic-speaking tribes, migrated westward in Eurasia they also adopted the term through interaction with both the Iranians and the Arabs. At this time in history and up to the rule of the Mugal Dynasty in India the term Hindu started gaining popular and recurrent usage, but was still used as an ethnographic term and not a religious identification label. The Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, and Vidicists of India were all called Hindus. It was during the colonial era that the British, who ruled India, coined the English-language term/word Hinduism and assigned the already existing and ancient Iranian term/word Hindu in 1830 to describe and designate the faiths and peoples of India belonging to Vedicism. Hindus are in reality all the people of India. The term Hindi, also used to label Indians and one of the main Indic languages, comes from Hindustani which also reflects the geographic nature and origins of the term Hindu; Hindustan means land of India and Hindustani people of India.

Thought For Day

"Suppose you had had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now! Whatever you would do then, do it now. When you run up against obstacles, people, or things that won't let you live that way, then begin to think about how to get over or around or under that obstacle, or how to push it out of the way, and your politics will be concrete and practical."
~ Paul Goodman

"You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone."
~ George W Bush