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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Kailash Satyarthi

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You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart -- I'll always be with you.
Christopher Robin
He who covets another's wife (Vyabhichar) will always sink in enmity, sin, fear and disgrace.
Thirukkural
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Keep in mind only the thoughts you want to happen, thoughts are seeds and events are their fruits.”
B K Shivani
A woman is a full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.
Rabindranath Tagore
No cosmic purpose is served by our suffering or that of those dear to us—just as no cosmic purpose is served by our being born or by our dying; and that for the simple reason that there is no ‘cosmic purpose’.
Arun Shourie
There were days I wanted to give up but hope would everyday push me to the next day. I kept saying, this is going to pass so there is hope.
Deepika Padukone
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Mahavira
Knowledge is of no avail if you cannot control your tongue.
Kabir
At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devote finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Democracy cannot be made secure and strong without peace. Peace and democracy are the two sides of a coin. Neither of them can survive without the other.
Jai Prakash Narayan
The spinning-wheel has almost been forgotten. There is all this talk of militarization and industrialization. But it is my conviction that a day will come when they will all see for themselves that for India there is no way other than that of village industries and non-violence. We shall not find a way out unless we develop these. But I am still optimistic.
Mahatma Gandhi
In order to achieve our goals, our methods must be as clean as the ultimate result!
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Meditation is seeing God in yourself. Love is seeing God in the person next to you. Knowledge is seeing God everywhere.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
There is scope even for those who have killed every virtue but not for those who have killed gratitude.
Thirukkural
I don't know if reservations are the ultimate goal or not but I can tell you that I am completely opposed to mandatory reservation.
Rahul Bajaj
God is attained through devotion and through love.
Morari Bapu
The stainless, indivisible Brahman, the pure - the light of all lights, is in the innermost sheath of the golden hue - the highest. That is what the knowers of the Atman know.
Mundokopanishad
Through tapasya, we can develop a deep sense of inner peace and contentment.
Annonymous
Who ignores not weak foe, with intellect waits for his opportunity, who displays in season ability, with the stronger desires no hostility; grieves not in calamity, applying all senses, patiently bearing misery, is wise - foremost of persons and all his foes but vanquished to be.
Vidur
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Our motivation is to help people out of poverty, not to be leading technology company.
Harish Hande
The pinching poverty of the wise is far better than the ill-gotten wealth.
Thirukkural
People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
Ratan Tata
As fire refines gold and makes it brighter, sufferings of penance make the ascetics purer.
Thirukkural
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
If a man destroys all his desires completely, he will easily achieve noble deeds.
Thirukkural
Praising somebody in their presence and then backbiting are worse than decrying virtue and doing evils.
Thirukkural
The image of that dying leprosy patient was burning me like a branding iron and would not give me a moment’s rest. From that moment on I was out to conquer fear…. Where there is fear there is no love. Where there is no love there is no God.
Baba Amte
Sickness is not cured by saying 'Medicine,' but by drinking it.
Adi Shankaracharya
Truth requires as much of strength to give as to receive.
R K Narayanan
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.
M S Swaminathan
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
If I die in this struggle for freedom, I am sure I will be born again and again in this great country. I shall live for my country, dream for her freedom and try with all my strength to fulfil the dreams.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
A good leader creates leaders, not followers.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
Kasturba Gandhi
The finest country in the world is India.
Mohammed Iqbal
Anyone who doesn't make time frames beyond tomorrow, probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.
Anand Mahindra
Expect the best, prepare for the worst.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Iron and knowledge will get spoiled if they are not used.
Proverb
Not every debt can be paid off with money.
Rabindranath Tagore
A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
Swami Vivekananda
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
An extremist or terrorist who is ready to kill resources is thereby offering to sacrifice his own life for the cause. Hence a potential extremist is an appropriate recruit for social action at a higher moral level - namely non-violent satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
We want deeper sincerity of motive, greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx
By practicing tapasya, we can cultivate a strong sense of discipline and focus.
Annonymous
When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
Arundhati Roy
I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
Kiran Bedi
One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.
M S Swaminathan
Eat fire and your mouth will burn, live on credit and your belly will burn.
Proverb
Intellectual beauty is indeed, the highest kind of beauty.
Dr C V Raman
Time is not measured by passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Follow the path of love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually,and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda
Take the stones people throw at you. And use them to build a monument.
Ratan Tata
Give to the poor with a glad heart, just as the tree offers leaves, flowers, shade, fruits, and roots without difference. This is genuine altruism.
Gyaneshwar
Those who want to be free from sufferings will not do wrong sincle all wrongs recoil on wrong doers.
Thirukkural
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ
The function of music… is to quiet the mind to make it more sensitive to divine intervention.
Samveda
Money is just a byproduct of success. The real satisfaction lies in the the joy of achieving something in the feeling of doing something worthwhile.
Sudha Murthy
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual mind is flexible. Materialistic mind is fickle.
Amogh Lila Das
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
Amartya Sen
Forsake friends, wife and all; but testify to that for which you have lived and for which you have to die. I want to live my full span of life. And for me I put my span of life at 120 years. By that time India will be free, the world will be free.
Mahatma Gandhi
Divine wisdom leads to uncluttered thoughts within, which further leads to uncluttered actions.
Amogh Lila Das
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.
Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Resign thyself to His will, review thy past actions and follow the path of duty.
Isha Upanishad
The contented man looks into his own heart to find total peace.
Ramayana
For every negative person in your life, have three uplifting people.
Jay Shetty
Live life a little dangerously.
Jrd Tata
Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun…
Mao Zedong
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not, amidst blame and praise.
Dhammapada
Because of his attachment to the body, man is not able to understand his divine nature.
Ramayana
It is alright if you have no idea of the past. What is dangerous is, if you have a wrong idea of the past.
Irfan Habib
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
The dawn is the dream of God's creative fancy.
Rig Veda
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and therefore there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
Mahatma Gandhi
The perfect cosmic vision and cosmic sentiment is the cure of all error and suffering, but most men succeed only in enlarging the range of their ego.
Aurbindo Ghosh
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
Joy is never tomorrow. It is always now.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
As the water of the ocean is now calm and next agitated into waves, so are Brahman and Maya. The ocean in the tranquil state is Brahman, and in the turbulent state, Maya.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.
Kiran Bedi
You can't cross the sea merely be standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
What you see as curse, can turn into a blessing. What you see as bad, can turn into good. So never evaluate any situation based on its face value.
Gaur Gopal Das
Oh Khusrau, the river of love runs in strange directions. The one who jumps into it drowns, and one who drowns is the one who gets across…
Amir Khusro
Work is not life. It is one expression of life. When the mind is restful, work becomes purposeful.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is always dark at the foot of the lighthouse.
Proverb
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
Mahavira
When traders will start cancelling orders from China it will send a powerful message to Chinese government that antagonising India will extract a huge price.
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian art is not one thing. Indian art is so many different schools and styles. (Nevertheless) I think lyricism, the love of nature, the symbolic aspect of art (like showing rain in a few lines of dots in a Rajput miniature) the looking for the essence in natural forms and human forms, and then going for the essence rather than the surface - that I think is primarily what distinguishes Indian art from Western art. Not just Indian art but Eastern art in general. Chinese and Japanese art also, if you come to think about it, have the same qualities as Indian art.
Satyajit Ray
I can't think of being anything else but what is represented by my films. I am not conscious of being a humanist. It's simply that I am interested in human beings. I would imagine that everyone who makes a film is to some extent interested in human beings... I'm slightly irritated by this constant reference to humanism in my work - I feel that there are other elements also. It's not just about human beings. It's also a structure, a form, a rhythm, a face, a temple, a feeling for light and shade, composition, and a way of telling a story.
Satyajit Ray
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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