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He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Gautam Buddha

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Though men amass wealth, they can enjoy it only as destined by fate.
Thirukkural
A leader leads by example. He teaches others how to do things by doing them himself.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound forever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
B R Ambedkar
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action - Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore
Many people have uninstalled Chinese apps. So when crores uninstall apps. It will be a message for the Chinese government when they are intruding into India.
Sonam Wangchuk
Civility is a beauty of behaviour.
Rabindranath Tagore
One should understand a brahman who merely reads much, to be a man of many words. Know him only to be true Brahman who swerves not from the truth.
Sanatsugatia
For every negative person in your life, have three uplifting people.
Jay Shetty
I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
Sonam Wangchuk
If laziness remains in a man of nobility, it will make him the slave of his enemy.
Thirukkural
Freedom can exist only when there is equality in all walks of life. Without equality, to talk about freedom is to deny freedom to many in the interest of a few.
Ram Manohar Lohia
The new leadership in India is taking shape quietly, without any drum beating through the newspapers. … Various centers, the centers of energy and strength in the life of society are gaining tremendous momentum. May be, the surging new generation of today appears to have lost its bearing, to have lost its soul. But it is absolutely certain that one day it will have its own leader and prophet…. I am absolutely confident that the phoenix of a new leadership is rising from the ashes of all its failure. Soon the world will witness the lightning hidden in its beak and the storm hidden in its wings.
Baba Amte
Human nature has both tendencies--Anger & Greed on the one hand and Love & Sacrifice on the other.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
There is no need to tonsure or grow long hair if one shuns evil deeds.
Thirukkural
All your anxieties and worries come from egotism and selfishness.
Swami Ramkrishnananda
God befriends the man who climbs determination's heights.
Panchtantra
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a society ever reaches the stage of possible equality, if not total equality, a stage might be reached for doing away with the weapons.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
Reason and intellect cannot make you see divine, it is the soul that sees.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Tapasya is the art of realizing the ultimate truth through self-discipline.
Annonymous
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually,and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda
Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins that exceed his love.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Doubts, too, are a stepping stone to wisdom.
T L Vaswani
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
G B Shaw
As soon as you confess your sins, HE lets not a particle of it remain.
Tuka Ram
The ultimate goal of human life is to attain knowledge of the self.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
Chanakya
Earlier organizations made individuals, today individuals make an organization.
Rahul Bajaj
When nature is channeled according to the principles of Dharma, we have culture & civilisation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Life is immense, comprehensive and dynamic. It includes spirit and matter and idealism and pragmatism and rotates round the axis of the noble and the ignoble. Life strives for higher ends. It is a mission, a service, and finally worship.
Dr Zakir Hussain
Men are not sure of the next moment in their life. Yet they think of millions of future plans.
Thirukkural
Water cleans the body. Likewise, truth enlightens the soul.
Thirukkural
Your thoughts and emotions are drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
Arundhati Roy
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Gautam Buddha
The work that you do is to be performed with a right attitude.
Swami Sardananda
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Einstein
Life is much larger than birth or death, failure and success. You are the unblemished pure eternal self. Knowing this you'll walk like a king.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A nation is built in its educational institutions.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Amartya Sen
We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.
Abhijit Banerjee
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh
The agitated minds leads you to your own destruction.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
God won't come to us in front of the eyes, but when your devotion is true, you will feel the God all around you.
Surdas
The finest country in the world is India.
Mohammed Iqbal
The world needs real-world universities, 'doer' universities. We're going to set up one model of it in Ladakh. And if it is successful, we hope it'll have a ripple effect from New Delhi to New York.
Sonam Wangchuk
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
A sign of intelligence is to find the one in many and the many in one.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Liberty is inseparable from equality.
Ram Manohar Lohia
It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to ensure that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Whatever action is performed with compassion is truly karma; without compassion, it is all merely kriya.
Morari Bapu
Indian music is oriented solely to the end of divine communication. If I have done something in this respect entirely due to the grace of the Almighty who has chosen my humble self as a tool.“
M. S. Subbulakshmi
The function of music… is to quiet the mind to make it more sensitive to divine intervention.
Samveda
Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.
Sonam Wangchuk
Take care of what you think, because you are listening.
B K Shivani
One who drinks spirituous drinks, one who kills a Brahman, one who steals…. Is released from that sin only by penance well performed.
Bhagvad Gita
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E F Schumacher
When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Most of the mistakes in life are caused by hasty decisions; Think, analyze and then act on it.
Annonymous
To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play your identifications, don't let them rule you.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Persists in your efforts without fearing failure. True contentment lies in sincere endeavours.
Chanakya
You will never be happy if you always care what other people think of you.
B K Shivani
Women and gold keep men immersed in worldliness. The woman is disarmed when you view her as the manifestation of the Divine Mother.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Anger is great vice. So too is pride. Together they can destroy common sense.
Mahabharata
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Maha means one who destroys three kinds of M's: mada (ego), madan (desires), matsar (jealousy).
Morari Bapu
Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
Bunker Roy
Give to the poor with a glad heart, just as the tree offers leaves, flowers, shade, fruits, and roots without difference. This is genuine altruism.
Gyaneshwar
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
Mother Teresa
Yes, it is important to analyse your game and your mistakes, but over analysing is also not good.
Sachin Tendulkar
Speak Less, Speak Softly, Speak Sweetly. Save Energy.
B K Shivani
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
All lamps are not real lamps. To the great, the lamp of truth alone is the lamp.
Thirukkural
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
Jamshedji Nausherwan Tata
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best.
Ela Bhatt
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-paul Sartre
The best way to perform a deed is learning the techniques from an expert.
Thirukkural
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Courtesy affords peace while discourtesy causes impairment.
Bhai Gurdas
The stainless, indivisible Brahman, the pure - the light of all lights, is in the innermost sheath of the golden hue - the highest. That is what the knowers of the Atman know.
Mundokopanishad
The flute is sweet, the lute is sweet, say those who never heard the pretty prattle of their own children.
Thiruvalluvar
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The small wisdom is like water in a glass - clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in a sea - dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
God's great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
Rabindranath Tagore
Living with devotion to and with thoughts of the scriptures and of God is punya.
Morari Bapu
Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish
Mao Zedong
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Adi Shankaracharya
Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
Ved Vyas
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of real and unreal. In fact it is beyond all relativity.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramhansa Yogananda

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