Aung San famous quotes

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.
-- Aung San

#Sleep #Hands #Peaceful

I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.
-- Aung San

#Thinking #Interesting #Challenges

I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.
-- Aung San

#Daughter #Father #Indifferent

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.
-- Aung San

#War #Practice #Would Be

We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.
-- Aung San

#Effort #Preparation #Defeat

I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.
-- Aung San

#Thinking #Ice #Majority

I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.
-- Aung San

#Believe #Hero #Men

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day
-- Aung San

#Rights #Order #Deny

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude
-- Aung San

#Rights #Safety #Choices

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

The hand is no different from what it creates.

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.