The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. – Bhagavad Gita
When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently. – Bhagavad Gita
He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion. – Bhagavad Gita
A mans own self is his friend. A mans own self is his foe. – Bhagavad Gita
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. – Lafcadio Hearn