Alliances can be formed by valuable transactions between two parties. One must do a favour or promise a favour in return. Mere promises which do not materialise can sour the warmest of relationships.
Mahabharata
Strategy should be revealed or concealed according to situation, as a tortoise reveals or conceals its limbs.
Upanishads
The only immortal part of us is the Soul.
Hinduism
Collect wood to light the fire of knowledge.
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
Om. May there be peace in heaven. May there be peace in the sky. May there be peace on earth. May there be peace in the water. May there be peace in the plants. May there be peace in the trees. May there be peace in the Gods. May there be peace in Brahman. May there be peace in all. May that peace, real peace, be mine.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to Him who is the protector of all created beings.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om sarv arunayai namah. Salutations to Her who is rose - hued all over.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
The best among the intelligent bend the bow of their mental disposition with the bow-string of firm devotion, and having destroyed the enemy of sins with the unfailing arrows of divine contemplatation, become victorious and attain to the undecaying sovereignty of liberation.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
The One with matted hair.om charmine namah
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
Lord, Thou hast told us; Do not give way, hold tight. It is when everything seems lost that all is saved.
