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.

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.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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

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.

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

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 prayers

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.

When you are in doubt abstain.

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!

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.

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

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

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

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

Let us be such as help the life of the future.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

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.

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.

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.