Zoroaster Quotes

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

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

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

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.

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.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

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.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

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.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

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

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.

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

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

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

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!

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

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

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.

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.

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

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.

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.