“Avesta” refers to the primary collection of religious texts in Zoroastrianism, an ancient Iranian religion. It consists of hymns, rituals, and teachings attributed to the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra). The Avesta is written in an ancient language called Avestan and is considered a significant source for understanding Zoroastrian beliefs and practices.
Avesta Quotes
1. “Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.”
— Zoroaster
2. “Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.”
— Zoroaster
3. “When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.”
— Zoroaster
4. “Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth.”
— Zoroaster
5. “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.”
— Zoroaster
6. “Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.”
— Zoroaster
7. “Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.”
— Zoroaster
8. “A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”
— Zoroaster
9. “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.”
— Zoroaster
10. “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!”
— Zoroaster
11. “Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.”
— Zoroaster
12. “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.”
— Zoroaster
13. “One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.”
— Zoroaster
14. “By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!”
— Zoroaster
15. “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.”
— Zoroaster
16. “Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.”
— Zoroaster
17. “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.”
— Zoroaster
18. “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 harbor of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.”
— Zoroaster
19. “Let us be such as help the life of the future.”
— Zoroaster
20. “A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.”
— Zoroaster
21. “War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfortunate.”
— Zoroaster
22. “Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come…”
— Zoroaster
23. “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.”
— Zoroaster
24. “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.”
— Zoroaster