Even the subjects may rejoice when a child is born to their king and queen. Now they are confident about a continuity of rule and tradition. All over the world, in all ages, the heir to the throne is welcomed like this.
Mahabharata
The poor man is generally discounted by all.
Upanishads
Forsake not words; forsake only words of envy and greed.
Hinduism
A well intentioned procrastinator should be inspired to take action.
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
Let our speech be devoted to the narration of Thy excellence, our ears to the hearing of Thy wonderful glory, our hands to the performance of Thy work, our minds to meditation on Thy holy feet, our heads to bowing to the world - Thy adobe - and our eyes to seeing the righteous who are Thy body.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to the Lord of the immortals.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om Sakti - kut aikat apanna - katyadho bhaga - dharinyai namah. Salutations to Her whose form below waist is identical with the last part (Sakthi - Kuta) of Panca - dasaksari Mantra.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
Divine love is like a creeper - it is filled ith the nectar of joy; it springs from the bed of Siva's lotus feet: it spreads with its ramified branches along the contiguous support of constancy (of aspiration); it covers the high roofing of the mind; it is tended by the service of virtuous acts; it is free from the disease of sin. May that creeper of divine love yield the longed for and eternal fruitage (of liberation) unto me!
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
With tuft like the crest of a peacock. Om sikhandine namah
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
To be a Yogi; a Sannyasi, a Tapaswi is not the object here. The object is transformation...