Devotion

Praise is the attitude of the highest gratitude.

I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.

If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” -

The goal of attention, or shamatha, practice is to become aware of awareness. Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the “support,” of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached. When we recognize and become grounded in awareness, the “wind” of emotion may still blow. But instead of being carried away by the wind, we turn our attention inward, watching the shifts and changes with the intention of becoming familiar with that aspect of consciousness that recognizes Oh, this is what I’m feeling, this is what I’m thinking. As we do so, a bit of space opens up within us. With practice, that space—which is the mind’s natural clarity—begins to expand and settle.

Those who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

You don’t discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.

Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

The most Superior amongst the colors in the universe is the color of Devotion.

Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Women get married expecting to change their husbands, while men get married expecting their wives will never change.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. And they will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

The best mirror is an old friend.

I don't need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

God is a verb.

Pray as if everything depended upon God; work as if everything depended upon you.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Give the world the best you've got.  It may not be enough.  Do good anyway.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed - that can make of this earth a garden.

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.