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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

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See life as an adventourous game and play the game without worrying about the outcome.
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Feel grateful for your existence and all the love you have received. This will bring happiness and joy to you.
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If you spent one tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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He who receives guests (atithi) one after another will be an honoured guest in heaven.
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Love is the song of soul singing to God.
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Adi Shankaracharya
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After taking a well-considered decision it is extremely harmful to delay the action.
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If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Defeat defeat before defeat defeats you.
Swami Vivekananda
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They cannot make history who forget history.
B R Ambedkar
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Wise men who have clear mind will refrain from eating the flesh of a lifeless animal.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
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Dr S Radhakrishnan
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
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Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of the body.
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Everything that is beautiful, appreciate it - and everything that is unhuman, condemn it.
Osho Rajneesh
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Surdas
Brevity speaks. It forces you to convey complex thoughts.
Anand Mahindra
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
The more you expect from fate, the more it will disappoint you, have faith in karma, you will always get more than your expectations.
Annonymous
To refrain from hurting anyone wilfully in any manner at any time even in thought is the chief virtue.
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Gopal Krishna Gokhale
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have loved, will realise the Lord.
Guru Govind Singh
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
Conflict is not a sign of culture of Nature rather it is a symptom of their degradation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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Jay Shetty
Just like tiger's milk can be held in golden pot, similarly only a golden mind can contain focus.
Amogh Lila Das
Strength lies not in unrestrained behaviour but in well regulated action.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Don’t be worried about what the world thinks, do what is right and just in the eyes of the Lord.
Guru Govind Singh
Time can dull the sharpest ambition.
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I don't believe in taking the right decisions. I take the decisions and make them right.
Ratan Tata
Recognize that self-interest often underpins friendships, unveiling an unvarnished truth.
Chanakya
Empty and crude speech in public is fruitless and devoid of virtue.
Thirukkural
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
Look upon hardships with eagerness. They should not bring tears to the eye. Look upon them as ordained to serve you, to chasten you through trials and tribulations, and finally leave you stronger, healthier, wiser than before.
Mahabharata
In a journey from birth to death, we have to accomplish the journey from mortality to immortality.
Amogh Lila Das
One must do noble deeds without delay, for death may come anytime.
Thirukkural
You can't sell the cow and have the mik too.
Proverb
Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati Roy
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
Men of righteous conduct (aacharan) never utter evil words even by a slip of the tongue.
Thirukkural
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Education is not merely teaching of various academic subjects, but the cultivation of total reposnibilities in the student.
J Krishnamurthi
Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Einstein
You'll feel better about yourself if you give up judging yourself and start loving yourself.
B K Shivani
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
As I get older I realise that being wrong is not something bad as they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something.
Richard Feynman
The best way to perform a deed is learning the techniques from an expert.
Thirukkural
Our motivation is to help people out of poverty, not to be leading technology company.
Harish Hande
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
Practice Humility, Compassion & Unity. Heal yourself to heal the planet. 
B K Shivani
A ripened fallen fruit cannot re-attach to the branch.
Kabir
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Aurbindo Ghosh

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