Thomas Huxley Quotes

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.