TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise. Zoroaster More Quotes by Zoroaster More Quotes From Zoroaster Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed. Zoroaster good-thoughtsthreedeeds Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. Zoroaster doing-goodhealthyjoy 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. Zoroaster enlightenedpathmind 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. Zoroaster deedsspiritualheaven Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others. Zoroaster One good deed is worth a thousand prayers. Zoroaster prayersciencereligion 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. Zoroaster meditationheartheaven 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. Zoroaster kindnesshairhands 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. Zoroaster warorderenemy A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. Zoroaster possessionmind Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. Zoroaster excessproduceliberty War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate. Zoroaster donebraverywar 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! Zoroaster lightenemypast 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. Zoroaster deedseviltwo That which is good for all and any one, Zoroaster selflawkindness Seek your happiness in the happiness of all. Zoroaster advicehappinesslife 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 Zoroaster carereligiousprayer By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul! Zoroaster diversitysoulhero 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. Zoroaster joylifeyears A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice. Zoroaster kniveswisest-manmen
