Quotes on Calcutta

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents._x000D_ _x000D_ Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.