Oasis Pays Tribute To The Great Teachers Of This World

Thus Spake The GREAT TEACHERS.....

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

- Abraham Lincoln

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

- Albert Einstein

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every person has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth.

- Albert Schweitzer

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

- Aristotle

Some people would rather die than think.

- Bertrand Russell

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

- David Starr Jordan

You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even in your bathtub.

- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

- Erich Fromm

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

- Gautama Buddha

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something i can do.

- Hellen Keller

I know of no encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

- Henry David Thoreau

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right.

- Henry Ford

You must not accept but begin to question everything and find out; and you cannot question if you are inwardly afraid. To question everything means being in revolt, which is to create a new world.

- J Krishanamurti

And stand together, yet not too near together. For the pillars of the temple stand apart and the oak tree and cypress grow not in each others' shadows.

- Khalil Gibran

Kindness in words create confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

- Lao-Tzu

Love is not about opening old wounds. It's about healing them. Love is more concerned in "What's next" than "What's past".

- Leo Buscaglia

All the disharmony and imbalances existing in the world today is because we have forgotten the natural law-the law of bread labour. Simply enough, bread labour means-he who does no labour, is not entitled to eat.

- Leo Tolstoy

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

- Mahatma Gandhi

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

- Martin Luther King

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty
than the person who has nothing to eat.

- Mother Teresa

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

- Socrates

India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great.

- Sri Aurobindo

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

- Swami Vivekanand

It's kind of fun to do impossible.

- Walt Disney

Celebrating Teacher's Day, 5th September, 2009

At Oasis, we have always been inspired by the great teachers across the globe.

Their teachings have been continuously guiding us to make our lives more & more meaningful.

While we continue our journey, we pay our tribute to some of those legendary teachers by reflecting their life messages in this issue of Alive.

- Team Alive

  Alkesh Raval

  Ami Nanavati

  Jolly Madhra

  Jwalant Bhatt

  Kshama Kataria

  Mehul Panchal

  Sanjiv Shah

  Sheeba Nair

  Umesh Patel

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