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Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
Amartya Sen

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
To the goddess Lakshmi I pray, to grant me wisdom to carry on business with honesty and grant me prosperity in business and the good sense to utilise it for the benefit of the country and the affected people.
Jamna Lal Bajaj
Death visits us only once, never twice and it does not make any distinction between a millionaire and a pauper, why, then, should we be afraid of it? Let us all cast aside and for all these false fears of death.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
As milk is dear to the baby, and the raindrop is dear to the mouth of the rainbird, and as water is dear to the fish, so is Lord to my mind.
Saint Namdev
As you go forgetting yourself materially, just in the same proportion do spiritual peace and spiritual powers flow in towards you.
Virchand Gandhi
All your anxieties and worries come from egotism and selfishness.
Swami Ramkrishnananda
Civilization finds its completeness when it expresses humanity not when it displays its power to amass materials.
Rabindranath Tagore
Compassion is the universal language of heart that unites us all.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
If the wise forget the past learning, they can learn it again. But loss of discipline (anushasan) leads to ruin.
Thirukkural
Behaviour alone is that creates friends and foes.
Chanakya
Be moderate in your demands, just in your criticism, accurate in your facts, logical in your conclusions, and you can be sure that any propositions you make to our rulers will be considered by our strong and enlightened Governement.
Badruddin Tyabji
In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.
Sonam Wangchuk
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
Avicenna
God befriends the man who climbs determination's heights.
Panchtantra
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
There is a degree of freedom that creates apirations.
Anand Mahindra
I want art and literature that can speak to the humanbeing.
R B Harishchandra
There can be no worship without good actions.
Guru Nanak
Never let the things you want, make you forget the things you have. There is always something to be thankful for.
Annonymous
The soul quits the body anyday like a bird coming out of the egg-shell.
Thirukkural
Call to mind their noble suffering
Rc Dutt
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Jaya Kishori
Humility is different from servility.
Proverb
To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.
Tipu Sultan
HE is the searcher of hearts. HE transcends speech and reason. HE knows us and our hearts better than we do our selves. HE does not take us at our word, for HE knows that we often do mean it, some knowingly and others unknowingly.
Mahatma Gandhi
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.
Amartya Sen
Praising somebody in their presence and then backbiting are worse than decrying virtue and doing evils.
Thirukkural
Even the thought of robbing others' wealth is a sin and so it must be eschewed.
Thirukkural
Empowering women is key to building a future we want.
Amartya Sen
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Vladimir Lenin
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
The glory of benevolence depends on the excellence of perseverance.
Thirukkural
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
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
Rumi
To be successful in life, what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Premchand
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
Simone De Beauvoir
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.
Mahatma Gandhi
The lazy cannot achieve great gains even if they enjoy royal benefits.
Thirukkural
I am grateful for the award since it is possible that it may provide a measure of encouragement to those, who like myself, have been motivated in their scientific pursuits, principally, for achieving personal perspectives, while wandering, mostly, in the lonely byways of Science…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
Recognize that self-interest often underpins friendships, unveiling an unvarnished truth.
Chanakya
The benevolent men should serve society seeking no return. For how can the earth recompense the bounty of the rain clouds.
Thiruvalluvar
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma Gandhi
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
It Is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.
Apj Abdul Kalam
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is pain. Pain arises out of dark desires. Wisdom lies in the stilling of desire.
Gautam Buddha
I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
Sai Baba
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Swami Vivekananda
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati Roy
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.
Amartya Sen
Just as beauty spots and hair beautify women, proverbs beautify language.
Proverb
Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same.
Raman Maharshi
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Aurbindo Ghosh
I am a pure soul. I need nothing I give love & happiness.
B K Shivani
You must set yourself buried in God. Then only shall you live. You gain by losing. You live by dying.
Swami Sivananda
If some of you see the villages, you will not be fascinated by the sight. You will have to scratch below the dung heap. I do not say that they ever were heavenly places. Today they are really dung-heaps. They were not like that before. What I say is not from history but from what I have seen myself. I have travelled from one end of India to the other and have seen the miserable specimen of humanity with lustreless eyes. They are India. In these humble cottages, in the midst of these dung-heaps, are to be found the humble Bhangis in whom you find the concentrated essence of wisdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
All moments are beautiful - only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings - only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept them with deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.
Osho Rajneesh
Your thoughts and emotions may keep you fully engaged right now, but they are just small offshoots of life - they are not life itself.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
G B Shaw
Humility is non-negotiable. If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or desire to control.
Anand Mahindra
Equity means words without bias that come from a firm and unbiased (nishpaksh) mind.
Thirukkural
We cannot change situations in life but we can change our attitude towards them.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools. Even as light that illuminates the eye, makes owls blind.
Panchtantra
Throughout my life I have gained more from my critic friends than from my admirers.
Mahatma Gandhi
If we believe in non-violence, it would not be right if we refuse to protect the weak in the name of non-violence. I may be ready to embrace even a snake, but if it comes to bite you, I will kill it to protect you.
Mahatma Gandhi
An intelligent man knows that death is born along with his own birth.
Bhaktivedant Swami Prabhupad
if it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be interdependent.
Mahatma Gandhi
The artist is a lover of nature. Therefore he is her slave and her master.
Rabindranath Tagore
Hegel put forward the principles of thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis; Karl Marx used this principle as a basis and presented his analysis of history and economics; Darwin considered the principle of survival of the fittest as the sole basis of life; but we in this country saw the basic unity of all life.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Einstein
When the seer realises the self-effulgent supreme being - ruler, maker and source of the creator even - then that wise one, shaking off all deeds of merits and demerits, become stainless and attains the supreme state of equipoise.
Mundokopanishad
God helps when one feels oneself humbler than the very dust under one’s feet. Only to the weak and helpless is divine succor vouchsafed.
Mahatma Gandhi
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Though one may be a little bubble and another may be a mountain-high wave, yet behind both the bubble and the wave there is the infinite ocean.
Swami Vivekananda
Credibility depends on your track record whether it's an individual, or a corporate or a government.
Rahul Bajaj
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth but already to possess it.
Romain Rolland
Swarajya is my birthright and I shall have it.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Defeat defeat before defeat defeats you.
Swami Vivekananda
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
Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons; make the lessons unforgettable.
Sonam Wangchuk
There's hope even when your brain tells there isn't.
John Green
We fight for independence. In the words of Lord Krishna we will, if we are victorious, enjoy the fruits of victory.
Jhansi Ki Raani
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Kailash Satyarthi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith can move mountains; believe in yourself and your abilities.
Jaya Kishori
Think of yourself as if you were the only unenlightened person in the world. Everyone else is your teacher.
Gautam Buddha
Request the people of my country to continue this kranti. People should continue to fight even if I am not there. 
Anna Hazare
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Happiness is right here and now and the way to find it is through meditation. It improves our minds and health and brings more happiness.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
Art is the response of man's creative Soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
Truthfulness indeed is tapa (penance). In truthfulness do reside self-restraint and all other virtues. Just as the fish can live only in the sea, so can all other virtues reside in Truthfulness alone.
Mahavira
Tapasya is not just a physical practice, it is a mental and spiritual discipline as well.
Annonymous
And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.
Khalil Gibran

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