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Ethical living Quotes

"Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry."

"Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

"The noblest question in the world is 'What good may I do in it?'"

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."

"The petty man is in constant distress; the superior man is always at ease"

"Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened."

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world."

"We must use time creatively and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right"

"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live"

"If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take"

"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."