Zoroaster
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.Collection: Joy
One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.Collection: Prayer
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.Collection: Three
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.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Spiritual
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Kindness
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.Collection: Life
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.Collection: Liberty
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.Collection: War
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.Collection: War
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.Collection: Doubt
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.Collection: Satisfaction
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!Collection: Past
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine lightCollection: Men
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.Collection: Men
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.Collection: Lust
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Life
By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Two
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 prayersCollection: Religious
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.Collection: Flow
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.Collection: Sensual
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.Collection: Fire
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.Collection: Worry
Let us be such as help the life of the future.Collection: Future
Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)Collection: Truth
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.Collection: Home
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.Collection: Order
I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.Collection: Teaching
You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.Collection: War
When you are in doubt abstain.Collection: Doubt
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.Collection: Desire
A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal,It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven!To effect this I shall work now and ever more.Collection: Blessing
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!Collection: Deeds
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.Collection: Life
In doubt if an action is just, abstain.Collection: Doubt