Soothing the heart

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law ...

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart ...

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity ...

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right ...

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant ...

[Martin Luther King Jr.]

Beauty of knowledge

All the lessons of history in four sentences:

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Rays of desperate hope

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;
who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.

Travelling Thoughts

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart ...

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust ...

No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it ...

CSE

Encountering the varied endeavors of human beings to describe and control nature with ...

An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata (Peter Linz)

Travelling Thoughts

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing ...
Life is the flower for which love is the honey ...
In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield ...
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end ...

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them ...