Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.
Thiruvalluvar, Kural.
“I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.”
“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”
“It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.”
“Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.”
“When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.”
“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.”
“When Peter renounced the world he grew up in and the people he grew up with, I believe it was exactly as heroic as that of a person who, finding himself prone to violent seasickness, renounces yach...”
“Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.”
“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”
“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”