Do not feel depressed about not finding the right job

You should never be too depressed about your dissatisfaction concerning not finding a job you like, a place in the world that fits you. If you analyze it, this general sense of mis-fit is one of the curses of your generation, one of the products of the world's disequilibrium and chaos. It is not confined to your life, it is pretty general.

~ Letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer. Shoghi Effendi, Unfolding Destiny, p. 454

Our materialistic civilization

... the chief reason for the evils now rampant in society is the lack of spirituality. The materialistic civilization of our age has so much absorbed the energy and interest of mankind that people in general do no longer feel the necessity of raising themselves above the forces and conditions of their daily material existence. There is not sufficient demand for things that we should call spiritual to differentiate them from the needs and requirements of our physical existence.
The universal crisis affecting mankind is, therefore, essentially spiritual in its causes. The spirit of the age, taken on the whole, is irreligious. Man's outlook on life is too crude and materialistic to enable him to elevate himself into the higher realms of the spirit.
It is this condition, so sadly morbid, into which society has fallen, that religion seeks to improve and transform...

~ From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, 8 December 1935. Lights of Guidance, no. 449, pp. 134-5


It would be perhaps impossible to find a nation or people not in a state of crisis today. The materialism, the lack of true religion and the consequent baser forces in human nature which are being released, have brought the whole world to the brink of probably the greatest crisis it has ever faced or will have to face. The Baha'is are a part of the world. They too feel the great pressures which are brought to bear upon all people today, whoever and wherever they may be.

~ From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, 19 July 1956. Lights of Guidance, no. 440, p. 131

Attitude towards oneself and others

Be very demanding with yourself and expect few from others, thus you will prevent yourself from getting into many troubles.

~ Confucius

Others can raise our spirits or depress us

There are persons with whom we associate and converse whose utterances are life-imparting, joy-giving. The withered and faded are refreshed, the joyless become happy, the extinct become enkindled and the lifeless are quickened with the breaths of the Holy Spirit. The one drowned in the sea of hesitation and doubt is saved by the life-boat of certainty and assurance; the one attached to this material world becomes severed and the one steeped in blameworthy deeds is adorned with praiseworthy attributes. On the other hand there are some persons whose very respiration extinguishes the light of faith; whose conversation weakens firmness and steadfastness in the Cause of God; whose company diverts one's attention from the kingdom of Abha.

~ Attributed to 'Abdu'l-Baha, Fire and Gold, Benefiting from Life's Tests, Brian Kurzius, p.84-85

The perfect human sentiments and virtues

You live to do good and to bring happiness to others.

~ 'Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 112

The greatest happiness can only be found in the happiness of others.

~ Baha'u'llah, the Divine Art of Living

Inspiring quote from Sir Winston Churchill

Success consists in going from chess to chess, without losing one's enthusiasm.

~ Sir Winston Churchill

Guidances

Man must always associate with those from whom he can get light, or be with those to whom he can give light. He must either receive or give instructions. Otherwise, being with people without these two intentions, he is spending his time for nothing, and, by so doing, he is neither gaining nor causing others to gain.

~ 'Abdu'l-Baha, Misc Baha'i, The Diary of Juliet Thompson