Inspiring Quotes

True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Never waste your precious time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If you want to make room for something new, you must let go of something old that no longer serves you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Nothing takes you away from dwelling in the past or worrying about the future like living in the present.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

~ Bonnie Hunt

Time is a timely teacher.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

~ Anton Chekhov

I am who I say I am,I'm not some fantasyof how you think you think you knowor who I ought to be.I am a girl who is growing up in my own sweet time,I am a girl who knows enoughto know this life is mine.I am this and I am that andI am everything in-between.I'm a dreamer, I'm a dancer,I'm a part-time drama queen.I'm a worrier, I'm a warrior,I'm a loner and a friend,I'm an outspoken defenderof justice to the end.I'm the girl in the mirror who likes the girl she sees,I'm the girl in the gypsy shawlwith music in her knees.I'm a singer and a scholar,I'm a girl who has been kissed.I'm a solver of equationswearing bangles on my wrist.I am bigger than i ever knew,I am stronger than before,I am every girl I have ever been,and all that are in store.I am who I say I am.I'm not some fantasy.I am the me I am inside.I am whoI choseto be.

~ James Howe

The Moon is the light of the night.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The splendor of God's work is the beauty of stars.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the Creator defines path of a river course.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sea sand is sea sand.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When circumstances pour the minds of some young helpless individuals with hatred and rage towards the society, and when that pain, hatred, and rage become unbearable, they turn to the scriptures as the final resort, in a pursuit to find absolution, guided by the psychopathic, misogynistic, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent, fundamentalist preachers.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Through the newly emerged field of Neurotheology, Scientists such as Andrew Newberg, Michael Persinger, myself and a few others have already taken the first step from the side of Science, to diminish the gap between Science and Religion. Now it is time for Religion to do the same. And the moment any religion does that, the eternal battle between Science and Religion would slowly start to disperse.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Belief is indeed psychologically important for the human mind of general population, but that belief should be nicely compatible with scientific reasoning, otherwise that belief turns into prejudice, which is never beneficial to the human life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The Holy Bible is sacred book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Holy Bible is the best of all books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Spirit calls, I must go fulfill the mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Spirituality nourishes the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Meditation nourishes the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Those who preach bookish religion are the greatest atheists of all, because they don’t have the slightest idea of neither God nor religion. Their beloved religion is their book. And their God is in the doctrines.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

To fear God is to seek his favour.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Decide what you what to do with your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the truth shall free us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The day you start trusting the people who think you are right, more than the people who are actually right, you are on your way down.

~ Everskeptic

Think of what you desire out of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stay motivated.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No effort is every wasted.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you respect yourself, you will respect others.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

~ Aberjhani