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It is not kingdom I desire, nor heaven, nor release from rebirth; what I desire is the destruction of the pains of creatures scorched by suffering.
Jamna Lal Bajaj

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Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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An individual that maintains a balanced state of the main elements of the body, blissful condition of the soul, satisfied senses and a happy state of mind is called a swastha or healthy person.
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Purity of thought and deed develops according to the pure conduct of one's friends.
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Where the light of the undying Sun shines, the light of burning lamp seems insignificant. By Guru's grace, I know this. Servant Namdev is absorbed in Celestial Lord.
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Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.
Sonam Wangchuk
Let your life ligtly dance on the edges of time like dew on a tip of leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of its parts. That's how I see business… Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
A snake knows more about what is happening around it than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip, only direct perception.
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None can destroy iron. But its rust can. Likewise none can destroy a person but his own mindset can.
Ratan Tata
Students have to be committed, fractional attention to art forms or getting hooked to the social media will not help in becoming a ‘complete artist’.
Sonal Mansingh
A disciple (shishya) should reach the Master in a spirit of humble adoration and complete surrender, with a passionate urge to know and with an indomitable will to suffer any amount of difficulties in living the life of retirement and privations.
Swami Chinmayananda
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
Those with untiring and unfailing efforts will conquer even the unyielding fate.
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When you take care of yourself, you are a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
Solange Knowles
True happiness is when the love within us finds expression in external activites.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
John Ruskin
For when confessed, the sin becomes less, since it becomes the truth.
Satpath Brahman
If people were silent, nothing would change.
Malala Yousafzai
You cannot cook rice well by just dreaming about rice.
Proverb
A scared journalist produces a lifeless citizen. If our news is scared of the government, it is great injustice to readers and viewers who have been cheated in the name of news.
Ravish Kumar
We cannot change situations in life but we can change our attitude towards them.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
A good leader takes care of those who he is leading. He delegates responsibility.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The gain of democracy is the security of the individual's life, liberty and goods from the caprices of the tyrant one or the selfish one, its evil in the decline of greatness in humanity.
Aurbindo Ghosh
We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
B R Ambedkar
God is not outside this earthly case of ours. Therefore, exterior proof is not of much avail, if any at all. We must over fail to perceive Him through the senses, because He is beyond them. We can feel Him, if we will but withdraw ourselves from the senses. The divine music is incessantly going on within ourselves, but the loud senses drown the delicate music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive or hear with our senses.
Mahatma Gandhi
To explain God merely after reading the scriptures is explaining to a person the city of Banaras after seeing it only on a map.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
While hating sin we must be gentle to the sinner.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group. There is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russel
Through tapasya, we can transform our weaknesses into strengths and our flaws into virtues.
Annonymous
We notice it between father and son, between brother and sister, friend and friend. But we have to learn to use that force among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Through Zeal, knowledge is gotton; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
Gautam Buddha
Much like the aroma of the flower carried by the wind, a person's goodness touches all directions.
Chanakya
To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.
Arun Shourie
Believe in kindness and serving others without any purpose.
Mahatma Gandhi
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck
A nation is built in its educational institutions.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Yes, it is important to analyse your game and your mistakes, but over analysing is also not good.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Noam Chomsky
Persists in your efforts without fearing failure. True contentment lies in sincere endeavours.
Chanakya
Power of love is God. Love for power is ego.
Swami Sukhabodhananda
The nearest equivalent English term for Dharma can be 'Innate Law', though even that does not express the full meaning of Dharma. Since Dharma is supreme, our Ideal of the State has been 'Dharma Rajya'
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Sometimes spending time with yourself is the only therapy you need.
Annonymous
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata
The forces in capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and poor poorer.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
The world will not respect the avengers but regard the tolerant as gold.
Thirukkural
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Kalidasa
All unenlightened persons produce sufferings. Having become deluded, they produce and reproduce sufferings, in this endless world.
Mahavira
Take care of each moment and you'll take care of all time.
Gautam Buddha
Most of the men and women today are not free and wise; they are like kites flown by priests and politicians who hold the string.
Lala Har Dayal Mathur
What greater worship can there be than nature's own festival of lights!
Kabir
Surrender to God, and you shall be filled with His grace.
Tuka Ram
He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isha Upanishad
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Mahatma Gandhi
Talent accompanies with good attitude makes one happliy malleable.
Amogh Lila Das
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh
Watching people getting absorbed in news, I have learned that if the media wants, it can empower citizens with its brave questions. It can make India's democracy more alive.
Ravish Kumar
A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F Kennedy
So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty, and terrorism, and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.
Malala Yousafzai
If we have to die, we must die like brave men. As human beings with a sense of human dignity, we cannot die crying.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?
Arun Shourie
Don't judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Nelson Mandela
Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
A king is honoured only within his own bounds. A learned man is respected everywhere.
Chanakya
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
As the great ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt, so my doctrine has only one flavour, the flavour of emancipation.
Gautam Buddha
Fire and straw cannot agree.
Proverb
A good leader creates leaders, not followers.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have loved, will realise the Lord.
Guru Govind Singh
Our aim is not to destroy the trees but to preserve them. When the men go to cut them, why don't we cling to the trees, and dare them to let their axes fall on our backs?
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.
Sonam Wangchuk
Penance has the power to destroy the enemies and elevate the friends.
Thirukkural
Love thy neighbour as thyself because you are your neighbour. It is an illusion that makes you think that your neighbour is someone other than yourself.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
Amartya Sen
Don't try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you'll be fine.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Many people in this country have paid the price before me and many will pay the price after me.
Nelson Mandela
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Though men amass wealth, they can enjoy it only as destined by fate.
Thirukkural
He who is thoughtful, blameless, settled, dutiful, without passions, and who has attained the highest end, him I call a Brahman.
Dhammapada
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
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
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
Kailash Satyarthi
You who believe, seek help through patience and prayer; surely, God is with the steadfast.
Quran
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
Anger and anxiety are the ones that tire you the most.
B K Shivani
Preserve the best in your tradition and culture, and live for selfless devotion to your ideas.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The purpose of this mortal life is to reach the shore of immortality by conquering both life and death.
Srimad Bhagvatam
Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently, waste not breathe on others affairs; possesses foremost mark of wisdom truly.
Vidur
We don't get a chance to do that many things and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief and then you die, you know? We have all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
Steve Jobs
I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now, it has to rise to solve the crisis facing the earth and nations have to pay attention to the education of children to save this planet.
Sonam Wangchuk
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in the course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
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
Work is not life. It is one expression of life. When the mind is restful, work becomes purposeful.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Cow protection is the eternal dharma of India.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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