Quotes from Zoroaster

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

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

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.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires greater stock of religious merit than he would gain by the repetition of 10,000 prayers. Zen Zoroaster

TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.

Let us be such as help the life of the future.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

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