Philosophical Sayings

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfortunate.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

For he who looks upon evil with tolerance is no other than evil himself.

I shall be master of my own destiny.

Lovingly, O Ahura, I pray to You who are the most excellent, and in harmony with utmost Righteousness.

I try, O Mazda, through the radiance of wisdom to know You. You who are the creator of existence.

In the radiance of righteousness, we shall learn self-knowledge and righteous thinking.

I am aware of my weakness, grant me the affection which a lover in the radiance of righteousness.

May we be those who shall heal this world.

Anyone in the world here below can win purity for himself, namely, when he cleanses himself with Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good Deeds.

Contemplate the beams of fire with a most pious mind. Every one, both men and women, ought to-day to choose his creed.

Everything that is created was first a Thought.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed. I entered paradise.

A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair.

None have I to protect me save Thee; Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life.