Quotes
Quotes about Injury
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
The Wolf and the Crane A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
The Laborer and the Snake A snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son. Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail. After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole. The Snake, slightly hissing, said: There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son. No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Forgiveness is the best remedy for any injury.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde.]
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering. [Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet.]
'Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom Of himn gave fire to it.
