Ramakrishna Quotes

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

If individuals have no sufficient reason to believe that a good situation today will have adverse long-term consequences, it must always be rational for them to aim to maximize their short-term good.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.