Where interests are in conflict, one should accept the possible, instead of engaging in futile hostilities over the issue of ideal justice. Such efforts will lead to nothing but further loss.
The habit of tolerance prevents a man from wasting his time and talent on unnecessary matters.
Double standards are a perpetual obstacle to personality development. Such people are devoid of sincerity. They are not controlled by firm principles but by immediate gain. Their behaviour is interest-based rather than principle-based.
The best form of consultation is that in which one seeks others' advice, while endeavouring to share their experiences. A man who never consults anyone else is only half a man. While a man who does consult others becomes a whole human being.
It is everyone's first duty to unfold his or her potential. One who dies without unfolding his intellectual potential has failed to uplift himself.
Conscience is the strongest check against wrongdoing. Anyone who wants to live as an honest person or as a man of character, must keep a guard upon his conscience or moral sensitivity. Nothing else can guarantee one's personal morality.
Man has to be so engrossed in his work that everything else pales into insignificance beside it. Unless everything else loses its interest for him, he cannot climb to any great heights of success.
At times our conviction in God weakens. Then the physical and mental shocks in his life serve as a reminder of God, after which we rediscover our Lord and our faith is restored.
No matter what kind of bad deeds you have committed, you should feel repentant and try to erase the effects of your bad deed by doing a good deed. Every bad deed you commit can pollute your soul. Cleanse it by your tears, or by some other kind of penitent behaviour.
Shun aggression at all cost. Aggression—an expression of anger—makes one lose the ability to do reasoned planning and patient striving.
