Top quotes by Zoroaster

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed. Votes: 8

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light Votes: 6

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. Votes: 6

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home. Votes: 6

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again. Votes: 5

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward. Votes: 5

Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise. Votes: 5

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years. Votes: 5

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness. Votes: 5

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind. Votes: 3

By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul! Votes: 3

In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed. Votes: 3

Let us be such as help the life of the future. Votes: 3

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so. Votes: 3

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. Votes: 2

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee. Votes: 2

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come... Votes: 2

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers Votes: 1

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. Votes: 0

A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal,It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven!To effect this I shall work now and ever more. Votes: 0

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry. Votes: 0

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others. Votes: 0

He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord! Votes: 0

He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power,He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura! Votes: 0

I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land. Votes: 0

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy. Votes: 0

In doubt if an action is just, abstain. Votes: 0

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers. Votes: 0

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart. Votes: 0

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker. Votes: 0

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all. Votes: 0

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul. Votes: 0

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law. Votes: 0

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. Votes: 0

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14) Votes: 0

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate. Votes: 0

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it. Votes: 0

When you are in doubt abstain. Votes: 0

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself. Votes: 0

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long. Votes: 0

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice. Votes: -1