You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
Interpretation
Honor is an intrinsic quality that cannot be taken from you by others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and honor, suggesting that external circumstances, such as losing material possessions or employment, do not define one's true worth. It reminds us that while we may face adversity at the hands of others, our sense of honor and dignity remains within us and is ultimately our own to uphold.
In practice
During a speech on character development at a local school.
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
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