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The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramhansa Yogananda

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Always try to represent yourself 'Happy', because, initially, it becomes your 'Look'. Gradually it becomes your 'Habit' and finally it becomes your 'Personality'.
Annonymous
With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more that we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons; make the lessons unforgettable.
Sonam Wangchuk
Spiritual mind is flexible. Materialistic mind is fickle.
Amogh Lila Das
Excellence of the material body consists in colour, loveliness of form, strength and density.
Patanjali
The ocean is the goal of all streams and of the rains from the clouds, yet it is never overflowing and never emptied; so the Dharma is embraced by many millions of people yet it neither increases nor decreases.
Gautam Buddha
People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separable from the problem.
J Krishnamurthi
[A balanced economic system is one which provides] sufficiency for all and superfluity for some. The MNCs have entered the country like nomads. The majority doesn't need Pepsi or Coke, they want water. You can have your skyscrapers and Cokes but before this you must ensure that that tribal girl defecating in the open has the privacy of a toilet.
Baba Amte
The highest eduction is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
Mahavira
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F Kennedy
The joy of giving is greater than the joy of receiving.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Fearing the bond of desires is a great virtue as desires have the power to deceive.
Thirukkural
One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Subhash Chandra Bose
An ocean of bliss may rain down from heavens, but if you hold only a thimble, that's all you receive.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Art is the response of man's creative Soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
Even the donkey is beautiful when it is a baby.
Proverb
He who receives guests (atithi) one after another will be an honoured guest in heaven.
Thirukkural
Intellectual beauty is indeed, the highest kind of beauty.
Dr C V Raman
Yesterday my Blood Pressure was down, but today it is back in control because the strength of the nation is behind me.
Anna Hazare
With every book you buy, you add a millimeter to your mental stature.
Lala Har Dayal Mathur
Anger and anxiety are the ones that tire you the most.
B K Shivani
Strong women do not have 'attitude', we have standards.
Marilyn Monroe
Happiness dies when not shared.
Baba Amte
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
God is attained through devotion and through love.
Morari Bapu
If I have to serve the country, I will have to live my life with patience and sobriety.
Mahatma Gandhi
Three things to hold on to - sharpness in the intellect, happiness in the mind and tenderness in the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The greatest virtue is to bear insult without resentment.
Bhishma Pitamaha
Not one single moment of life can be regained for millions of gold coins. Therefore, what greater loss is there than time spent fruitlessly?
Chanakya
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
The real worth of a person becomes apparent not during conditions of plenty but during privation.
Ramayana
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
Paramhansa Yogananda
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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
Be united, persevere, and achieve self-Government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine, and plague may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the greatest and civilized nations of the world.
Dadabhai Naoroji
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ
Deep and vast knowledge gained is of no use if one madly covets another man's wealth.
Thirukkural
Opposition in life is like a shadow. There's no shadow when you are lying on the ground. It appears the moment you stand up. When you are with the light, the shadow is behind you. If you are fighting shadows, you've turned away from light. Wake up and walk; your path is already lit.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
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
No one can attain perfection while he is in the body for the simple reason that the ideal state is impossible so long as one has not completely overcome his ego, and ego cannot be wholly got rid of so long as one is tied down by the shackles of the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Your thoughts and emotions are drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Woman is more fitted than man to take exploration and to take bolder action in non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
The most beautiful moments in life are when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
You have to dream before dreams can come true.
Apj Abdul Kalam
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.
Ela Bhatt
Too much reverance is the mark of a cheat.
Proverb
You who believe, seek help through patience and prayer; surely, God is with the steadfast.
Quran
You'll feel better about yourself if you give up judging yourself and start loving yourself.
B K Shivani
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Never expect anything less than what you are entitled to. It's self-respect, not pride.
Chanakya
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The world belongs to those who let go.
Lao Tzu
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
Ratan Tata
When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Those who live for themselves die, those who die for the society live. 
Anna Hazare
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools. Even as light that illuminates the eye, makes owls blind.
Panchtantra
We all make mistakes, don't be too harsh to yourself and keep punishing yourself and keep tormenting yourself for what has already been done and can't be undone. Learn your lessons and move on.
Gaur Gopal Das
Every tiny molecule of ash is in motion with my heat. I am such a lunatic that I am free even in jail.
Bhagat Singh
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept always in the tide of Time.
Mahatma Gandhi
The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
Bhagat Singh
If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
Mahatma Gandhi
People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
Ratan Tata
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Kailash Satyarthi
High character and nobility of life are better than high heredity and nobility of birth.
Zarathushtra
Even the thought of robbing others' wealth is a sin and so it must be eschewed.
Thirukkural
Tapasya is the ultimate test of self-control and self-mastery. By practicing tapasya, we can train our mind and body to overcome any obstacle.
Annonymous
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
Martin Luther King Jr
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
Paramhansa Yogananda
True charity never seeks returns; to rain cloud what return can men make?
Thiruvalluvar
Just as a threaded (sasutra) needle is secure from being lost,in the same way a person given to self-study (swadhyaya) cannot be lost.
Mahavira
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
Learn to live or live to learn.
Mahatma Gandhi
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant
Satyagraha is not a creed for the weak or the cowardly.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Adi Shankaracharya
All lamps are not real lamps. To the great, the lamp of truth alone is the lamp.
Thirukkural
The advice of the righteous is like a stick that helps one on a marshy ground.
Thirukkural
Better never love, if that love makes you hate others.
Swami Vivekananda
In the past 1000 years whatever we assimilated-whether it was forced on us or we took with willingness-cannot be discarded now.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include freedom to make mistakes.
Bhagat Singh
The Sanskrit name for a student, Brahmachârin, is synonymous with the Sanskrit word Kâmajit. Our goal of life is Moksha; how can that be ever attained without Brahmacharya or absolute continence? Hence it is imposed upon our boys and youth as an indispensable condition during their studentship. The purpose of life in the West is Bhoga, enjoyment; hence much attention to strict Brahmacharya is not so indispensably necessary with them as it is with us.
Swami Vivekananda
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck
I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
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
Religion is for man and not man for religion.
B R Ambedkar
Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as ‘unreal’ is to mock the pain of another.
Arun Shourie
Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment.
Rabindranath Tagore
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end in itself.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
The contented man looks into his own heart to find total peace.
Ramayana
Every lock comes with a key and every problem with a solution. Some of your problems can actually be solved, and some of your problems literally cannot be solved, but can be solved by becoming stronger to face them. That's the key.
Gaur Gopal Das
The best book is the book of the heart. Everyone has it: but how many are there who can read it? On the very first page of the book are written the words; Take care of your thoughts; As you think so you become.
J P Vaswani

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