Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
By crawling, a child learns to stand.
With time even a bear can learn to dance.
My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud...
I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
