Those who long for power try to be close to the powerful. Sycophants who crowd around King and Queen are generally power-hungry people. Others who get close to the throne try to get close to the sycophants.
Mahabharata
The world is a sizzling pan in which the ignorant cook their vain desires.
Upanishads
Only when Man has his fill of material objects, does he care to raise his eyes upwards.
Hinduism
Hope is better than many other states of mind.
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
In Him all things exist; from Him they all originate. He has become all; he exists on every side. He is verily the All. Salutations to Him who is the soul of everything.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to Him who is the Lord of what has been, what wil be and what is.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om pada - dvaya - prabha - jala - parakrta - saroruhayai namah. Salutations to Her whose feet defeat the lotus in beauty.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
O Lord! Like a young wife separated from her husband, my mind seeks to have attachment to Thy lotus feet and constant remembrance of it, Charmed by Siva's Name, it engages itself in Thy meditation, visualisation and praise.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
The Universe is His form. Om visvarupaya namah.
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest and we be ready to receive them.
