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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

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Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.
Kiran Bedi
Endowed with conduct and discipline, Who practices control of self, Who throws out all his bondage, He attains the eternal place.
Mahavira
If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.
Baba Amte
Let no despondency enter into your heart; despair is the greatest enemy of progress in one's path.
Annonymous
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
A successful leader maintains a balance by listerning to the head as well as the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Make a wrong-doer feel shy, by doing him a favour.
Thiruvalluvar
We want schools and education for every child’s bright future. We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education for everyone.
Malala Yousafzai
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
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Success is not about how much you have, but how much you give.
Jaya Kishori
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
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
I have always believed and still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Swami Vivekananda
Things not ordained to a man are not his. Things ordained to him, even when drained, are not lost.
Thirukkural
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
There is no better deed in heaven and earth than serving the society.
Thirukkural
One should excel in good conduct (aacharan) and take pains to cultivate and guard it.
Thirukkural
Though the unlearned are high-born, they are not so great as the learned who are low-born.
Thirukkural
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
Avicenna
It Is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.
Apj Abdul Kalam
Do not dig a well only after the hourse catches fire.
Proverb
Optimism doesn’t mean that you are blind to the reality of the situation. It means that you remain motivated to seek a solution to whatever problems arise.
Dalai Lama
Tapasya is the art of realizing the ultimate truth through self-discipline.
Annonymous
Life becomes a game when you learn to play it with the spirit of sport. Enjoy the whole journey from beginning to end.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
Paramhansa Yogananda
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted - and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
Life is there to ride, cherish those moments where life stands still.
Annonymous
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools. Even as light that illuminates the eye, makes owls blind.
Panchtantra
Life is not fatalistic. Life is a combination of free will and destiny. Though many things are fixed, many things can be influenced.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
He who shows himself what he is not, he wears two dresses of deceitfulness.
Hadis
Discipline is the code of conduct of decent living.
Sam Maenkshaw
If there is a fundamental distinction between man and beast, it is the former's progressive recognition of the law and its application in practice to his own personal life. All the saints of the world, ancient and modern, were each according to His light and capacity a living illustration of that supreme Law of our Being.
Mahatma Gandhi
Fearing the bond of desires is a great virtue as desires have the power to deceive.
Thirukkural
We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on till the scope of our love becomes coterminous with the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
Akbar The Great
Those who renounce ego and control the mind through penance are worshipped by all living beings.
Thirukkural
To refrain from hurting anyone wilfully in any manner at any time even in thought is the chief virtue.
Thirukkural
Civilization finds its completeness when it expresses humanity not when it displays its power to amass materials.
Rabindranath Tagore
Look upon all animate beings as your bosom friends, for in all of them there resides one soul.
Rig Veda
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
And is this Power benevolent or malevolent? I see it is purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love, He is the Supreme Good.
Mahatma Gandhi
God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you cry because the Sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
To understand the currents of a river, he who wishes to know the truth must enter the water.
Nisargadatta
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier - instead it should aim at making people stronger.
Samrat Ashoka
Never let the things you want, make you forget the things you have. There is always something to be thankful for.
Annonymous
He who can listen to music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
Vikram Sarabhai
Seeking creates Vacuum. Giving creates fulfillment.
B K Shivani
To be afraid of death is like being afraid of discarding an old worn- out garment.
Mahatma Gandhi
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
A serpent nursed on milk will still be poisonous.
Proverb
There's hope even when your brain tells there isn't.
John Green
Lakhs of people sacrificed their lives for freedom but due to selfishness of some people we have not got the right freedom.
Anna Hazare
Long is the cycle of birth and death to the fool who does not know the true path.
Gautam Buddha
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
Anil Ambani
Life is like riding a bycycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Einstein
Business need to go beyond the companies to the communities they serve.
Ratan Tata
No matter how high the eagle flies its gaze is always on the ground.
Proverb
Before embarking on any task, delve into its purpose, potential outcomes, and your odds of success.
Chanakya
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
The Learned say that saints alone are brahmans; true, for they behave as clothed in grace to every living thing.
Thiruvalluvar
It is the tears of the world that keep the smiles in bloom.
Rabindranath Tagore
Live life a little dangerously.
Jrd Tata
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx
True charity never seeks returns; to rain cloud what return can men make?
Thiruvalluvar
So many religions, so many paths to reach one and the same goal.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The creation may be likened to a play on the stage; pain and pleasure are both parts of this divine play.
Swami Nikhilananda
Courtesy is the most precious of jewels. The beauty that is not perfected by courtesy is like a garden without a flower.
Buddhacharita
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less.
Sonam Wangchuk
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
Apj Abdul Kalam
Persists in your efforts without fearing failure. True contentment lies in sincere endeavours.
Chanakya
A contented mind is a continual feast.
Proverb
All lamps are not real lamps. To the great, the lamp of truth alone is the lamp.
Thirukkural
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
A man is universe in miniature - and the universe, a giant living body.
Kabir
Love's gift can't be given. It waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath Tagore
Empathy is the most essential quality a human being should possess. It helps us understand others share their pain, and offer support.
Sudha Murthy
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
Sonam Wangchuk
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.
Ela Bhatt
If you want to be effective at work and achieve, its better that you be internally focused. If you are not focused and you are not internally, mentally stable, your output at the workplace is low as well. I am saying that you prioritize things that mean to you, you work on yourself, you work on your internal self. The consequences will be that you would be super productive in less no. of hours.
Gaur Gopal Das
If you see the soul in every human being, you see truly. If you see immortality in the heart of every mortal being, you see truly.
Bhagvad Gita
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
Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins that exceed his love.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Accept life like a pair of walking legs. The foot forward has no pride, the foot backward has no shame… both know their situation will change.
Annonymous
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
I know only one alternative to hard, unrelenting work. It is yet more work.
Pupul Jaykar
Life is pain. Pain arises out of dark desires. Wisdom lies in the stilling of desire.
Gautam Buddha
When the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
Amartya Sen
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
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually,and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda
The what, why & how of change works only and only when there is a deep want to change.
B K Shivani

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