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The water on the lotus is extremely unsteady; even so is life fickle in the extreme; know that gripped by disease and desire, the whole world becomes struck with misery.
Adi Shankaracharya

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When State acquires all powers, both political and economic; the result is a decline of Dharma.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Man’s ultimate aim is the realization of god, and all his activities, social, political, religious, have to be guided by the ultimate aim of the vision of God. The immediate service of all human beings becomes a necessary part of the endeavor, simply because the only way to find God is to see Him in His creation and be one with it. This can only be done by service of all. I am a part and parcel of the whole, and I cannot find Him apart from the rest of humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
When you give roses to others, the perfume is bound to linger on your hands.
Baba Amte
Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.
B R Ambedkar
Those who are pure in mind, striving through the path of renunciation (tyaga), come to ascertain clearly the deeper imports of the knowledge, which is the theme of Upanishads (Vedanta); they in the end, gain the world of Brahma, and liberating themselves from everything gain the highest immortality.
Kaivalya Upanishad
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
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
There is a degree of freedom that creates apirations.
Anand Mahindra
Swarajya is my birthright and I shall have it.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.
Kiran Bedi
The ultimate goal of human life is to attain knowledge of the self.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Meeting the deadline is not good enough. Beating the deadline is my expectation.
Dhirubhai Ambani
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
Sai Baba
It is a man making education all round: that is what we want.
Swami Vivekananda
But it is impossible for us to realize perfect Truth so long as we are imprisoned in this mortal frame. We can only visualize it in our imagination. We cannot, through the instrumentality of this ephemeral body, see face to face Truth which is eternal. That is why in the last resort we must depend on faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.
Baba Amte
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
Power comes invariably to be usurped by a handful of the most ruthless among the erstwhile revolutionaries when power comes out of the barrel of a gun and the gun is not in the hands of the common people.
Jai Prakash Narayan
Do not run away from death, for you can never die before the appointed time, and nothing can save you from dying when the appointed time comes.
Zarathushtra
The world belongs to those who let go.
Lao Tzu
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Jaya Kishori
He who has a hundred wants a thousand.
Panchtantra
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
Rumi
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
Narayan Murthy
You have to dream before dreams can come true.
Apj Abdul Kalam
What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
The struggle for democracy cannot be separated from the struggle against caste society.
E M S Namboodaripad
Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
We should know both the revealed and the unrevealed God.
Upanishad
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. There is water inside the jar, water outside but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira
The values of life are more valuable than the valuables of life.
Swami Tejomayanand
The real worth of a person becomes apparent not during conditions of plenty but during privation.
Ramayana
Dislodging a green nut from its shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Aim high and aspire to reach the highest.
Zarathushtra
Frustration, discouragement and depression mean that you are working against yourself.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Silence is the ocean in which all the rivers of all the religions discharge themselves.
Thayumanavar
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
If the wise forget the past learning, they can learn it again. But loss of discipline (anushasan) leads to ruin.
Thirukkural
Faith is not something to grasp. It is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
By practicing tapasya, we can develop a deep sense of compassion and empathy for others.
Annonymous
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
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
By practicing tapasya, we can cultivate a strong sense of discipline and focus.
Annonymous
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
I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it. I know too that I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil even at the cost of life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
Baba Amte
Too much honesty is not a good thing. Honest people get screwed first and straight trees are cut first.
Chanakya
Our governance is by a gerontocracy. This cataract of history can only be removed by youth. In this common man's century, only the common man can change the profile of this country.
Baba Amte
Want Love, Accept yourself. Need Respect, Value yourself. 
B K Shivani
Debt, enmity and murder have to be atoned for. There is no escape.
Sai Baba
Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Religion should help individuals to become better human beings.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don’t I take a step and move forward?
Malala Yousafzai
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
In my pursuit of truth, I have never bothered about consistency in what I speak. In this exploration, I have changed many of my beliefs, embraced new ideas. One thing that has been deeply embedded in me is that moral integrity is the foundation of a human being, and truth is the cornerstone of every moral principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
The pressure of Muslims for cow slaughter is the limit… I have studied both Quran and Bible. According to both of them, to kill a cow even indirectly is a great sin.
Vinoba Bhave
Bhakti is love - loving God, loving your own self, and loving all beings. The small heart should become bigger and bigger, and eventually totally expansive. A spark can create a forest fire.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Meditation is a personal relationship and a conversation with Him.
B K Shivani
There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.
M S Swaminathan
Move on in life remembering that you are fire! When you know that you are fire, nothing can burn you. Let go of the past and take life in totality.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
That with the help of which we can know the truth, control the restless mind, and purify the soul is called knowledge in the Jain doctrine.
Mahavira
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
A king must choose with prudence his ministers as they act as his eyes.
Thirukkural
While hating sin we must be gentle to the sinner.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Our attitude can be expressed in three ways: through words, through tears and through laughter.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
If God was a capricious person instead of being changeless, unchangeable living law, He would in sheer indignation wipe out those who in the name of religion deny Him and His Law.
Mahatma Gandhi
Talent accompanies with good attitude makes one happliy malleable.
Amogh Lila Das
Patriotism is not a matter of words, but of deeds.
Subhash Chandra Bose
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Maulana Azad
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
Depth of friendship doesn not depend upon length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
If the performance of Yajnas is the corner-stone of the work-portion of the Vedas, as surely is Brahmacharya the foundation of the knowledge-portion.
Swami Vivekananda
We are our choices.
Jean-paul Sartre
Water whether hot or cold will extinguish the fire.
Proverb
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 lily rises according to the water level and men's greatness rises according to their zeal.
Thirukkural
The basest deed of stealing is not found in men of profound righteousness.
Thirukkural
Love should be expressed as selfless service to humanity.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
Mahavira
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
The power of a single individual, irrespective of the social standing, should never be underestimated. Each one of us can bring about change.
Sudha Murthy
The function of music… is to quiet the mind to make it more sensitive to divine intervention.
Samveda
All the wealth earned by the benevolent by tireless efforts is meant to serve the worthy men.
Thirukkural
The earth bearing the burden of men without fame loses its ferility and yields less.
Thirukkural
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
Ratan Tata
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.
Ratan Tata
Excellence of the material body consists in colour, loveliness of form, strength and density.
Patanjali
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Einstein
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
The highest eduction is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and Grace in one's moments of power enhances the dignity of an organization.
Narayan Murthy

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