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God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati

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Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers, the round pegs in the square hole… the ones who see things differently…they are not fond of rules…you can quote them…disagree with them, glorify or villify them, but the only thing you can't do is to ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough, to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
The resolute will never allow grief to overcome them but will make even grief itself grieve.
Thirukkural
As we throw away our old worn-out garments and put on new ones, so the living soul after using the body throws it away when it is worn out dons a new one.
Bhagvad Gita
Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!
Swami Vivekananda
Caste is not merely a division of labour but also division of labourers.
B R Ambedkar
Take the stones people throw at you. And use them to build a monument.
Ratan Tata
Living among beast of prey, one should have to arm oneself. Getting oneself to be clawed to death by them is not acting angelic but being a fool.
Premchand
A good entrepreneur never gives up…the soul of an entrepreneur is to keep trying until you find the successful idea.
Sabeer Bhatia
Swaraj has no meaning until it can annihilate the yawning gap between the haves and have nots.
Maulana Azad
Compassion is the universal language of heart that unites us all.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions. You have to run by ideas, not by hierarchy.
Steve Jobs
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Gautam Buddha
Want Love, Accept yourself. Need Respect, Value yourself. 
B K Shivani
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramhansa Yogananda
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord. 21. In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.
Vinoba Bhave
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Learn to be calm, and you'll always be happy.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Those with untiring and unfailing efforts will conquer even the unyielding fate.
Thirukkural
Believe in forgiveness.
Mahatma Gandhi
When the aspiration is awake, each day brings us nearer to the goal.
Annonymous
The world belongs to those who let go.
Lao Tzu
The concept of equality should not rest on abstract but on the practical one that all men must be equal not within a nation but also among nations.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Our sweat is the answer to all our problems, and that the tiller, the artisan and the teacher are the three agents who feed the body, mind and soul.
Dr Zakir Hussain
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
A cow and a mother should be waited upon.
Proverb
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ
He who bears no ill will to any being, is friendly and compassionate, without attachment and egotism, balanced in pleasure and pain and forgiving, ever content, harmonious with the self-controlled resolute mind and reason dedicated to Me; he, My devotee, is dear to Me.
Bhagvad Gita
So I’ll say this —leave the advice & do the right thing, even if it isn’t the easiest thing to do. When you look back at your life, that’s what’s going to matter the most. Doing the right thing.
Ratan Tata
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
The best way to perform a deed is learning the techniques from an expert.
Thirukkural
If I cannot speak or write about it, I struggle with the truth. When I speak out in an effort to process what I observe and attempt to stretch myself beyond my many inadequacies, people ask me am I not afraid of the government? I am scared of my inadequacies.
Ravish Kumar
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
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Paper knowledge, paper evaluations, paper degrees all too papery and all too theoretical; it has very little that prepares us for real life in the real world.
Sonam Wangchuk
The worst enemy you have on earth can be found in the dark corners of your own mind.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Nobody respects an empty pocket.
Proverb
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba
The cat's teeth can hold its young but also kill a rat.
Proverb
Three things to hold on to - sharpness in the intellect, happiness in the mind and tenderness in the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Humility is different from servility.
Proverb
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Swami Vivekananda
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
To discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.
J Krishnamurthi
How beautiful is humble courtesy!
Rabindranath Tagore
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Like the silkworm, you have built a cocoon around yourself. Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul.
Swami Vivekananda
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The work that you do is to be performed with a right attitude.
Swami Sardananda
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Are thy troubles mountain-high? Be brave! And even if they be as Mount Sumeru, Regard them as no more than a particle of dust.
Bhagwan Ram
Don't be afraid to dream big, but remember to work hard to achieve those dreams.
Jaya Kishori
Its not the side of the bigger army that wins. It’s the country that tells a better story, that wins.
Shashi Tharoor
Heaven as fire is His head; sun and moon are His eyes; four quarters or directions are His ears; the Vedas that are expressed are His speech; the air is His breath; the universe is His mind; the earth has come from His feet. He is indeed the inner Self of all beings.
Mundokopanishad
Your experiece of life is proportional to your emotional state... Mind can make hell out of heaven or heaven out of hell.
Gaur Gopal Das
We want deeper sincerity of motive, greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
The mind is like a bird; if you hold it too tightly, it will suffocate.
Tuka Ram
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept always in the tide of Time.
Mahatma Gandhi
Who is helping you, don't forget them. Who is loving you, don't hate them. Who is trusting you, don't cheat them.
Swami Vivekananda
There’s no knowledge without right faith, no conduct is possible without knowledge, without conduct, there’s no liberation, and without liberation, no deliverance.
Mahavira
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. The Brahmachârin must be sexually pure in thought, word, and deed. Lose regard for the body; get rid of the consciousness of it so far as possible.
Swami Vivekananda
Believe in kindness and serving others without any purpose.
Mahatma Gandhi
In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
Avicenna
He is neither attached to worldliness nor lets senses and anger affect him. In such a person resides God.
Guru Teg Bahadur
We should know both the revealed and the unrevealed God.
Upanishad
A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
To attain inner peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Einstein
The wise despise the disgraceful act of killing, however great its gain may be.
Thirukkural
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses. But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am a pure soul. I need nothing I give love & happiness.
B K Shivani
I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
Kiran Bedi
Don't be a candle that needs a flame to burn, be a Sun that burns on its own.
Rumi
A good teacher must himself be a fellow traveller in the exciting pursuit of knowledge.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che Guevara
Learn to live or live to learn.
Mahatma Gandhi
Just wake up and see that all the past is only a memory. In the flow of time, all events are dissolving.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
A drop in the ocean partakes of the greatness of its parent, although it is unconscious of it. But it is dried up as soon as it enters upon an existence independent of the ocean. We do not exaggerate when we say that life is a bubble.
Mahatma Gandhi
He who does not jump into the floods does not have to worry about drowning. He who follows the standards of health will live a long and healthy life. Similarly, one who would not entertain the sensation of “I” (Ahankar) on all occasions of activity and non-activity will have no dread in this world. How can dread arise when a sense of unity has dawned and everyone else looks to be a part of one’s self?
Gyaneshwar
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Struggle for justice builds your character; unity brings forth our strength. Our tolerance and sacrifice is also tested. Always remember, your future is to some extent in your own hands.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.
Aruna Roy
Water whether hot or cold will extinguish the fire.
Proverb
It is disgrace for all those on earth if they fail to leave behind fame.
Thirukkural
It is better to work out than rust out.
Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
Arundhati Roy
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
Swami Vivekananda
When we have control over our passions, we shall succeed.
Swami Virajananda
Even a good deed may go wrong when it is not done befitting the nature and disposition of men.
Thirukkural
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.
Aruna Roy
When nature is channeled according to the principles of Dharma, we have culture & civilisation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
My thoughts create happiness & health. My body is perfect and healthy.
B K Shivani
I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.
Sonam Wangchuk
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi

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