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Although devotion is to be given to many institutes and teachers, the essence is to be taken from them all, as the bee takes the essence from many flowers.
Swami Vivekananda

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Caste is a monster that crosses your path every step you take.
Jyotiba Phule
He who shows himself what he is not, he wears two dresses of deceitfulness.
Hadis
The practice of tapasya requires us to let go of our attachment to material possessions and embrace simplicity.
Annonymous
A cup is useful only when it is empty.
J Krishnamurthi
Big dams are to a nation's 'development', what nuclear bombs are to its military arsenal. They are both weapons of mass destruction.
Arundhati Roy
We had taken pride in resisting Things-British while They (Britishers) ruled us, but strangely enough, now that the Britishers have left, Westernisation has become synonymous with Progress.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Satyagraha is not a creed for the weak or the cowardly.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
When the seer realises the self-effulgent supreme being - ruler, maker and source of the creator even - then that wise one, shaking off all deeds of merits and demerits, become stainless and attains the supreme state of equipoise.
Mundokopanishad
There is no economy in the world which is a mixed economy. The question is, what kind of mixture?
Amartya Sen
Sages say that the path of wisdom is narrow and difficult to tread, as narrow as the edge of a razor.
Upanishad
Discipline is the code of conduct of decent living.
Sam Maenkshaw
Any work without proper efforts and methods will fail despite the support of many.
Thirukkural
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
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Strong minded people are always firm even in defeat like the brave elephants pierced by arrows.
Thirukkural
True wisdom is the ability to see divine in all beings.
Narada
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual the ego gradually vanishes on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed
Ela Bhatt
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.
Kabir
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Do not hate anyone, for hate only breeds more hate.
Guru Govind Singh
Yes, it is important to analyse your game and your mistakes, but over analysing is also not good.
Sachin Tendulkar
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
Bertrand Russel
I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Baba Amte
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
The wealth of the unlearned is more harmful than the poverty of the learned.
Thirukkural
The resolute will never allow grief to overcome them but will make even grief itself grieve.
Thirukkural
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati Roy
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone De Beauvoir
You can't cross the sea merely be standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
Make a wrong-doer feel shy, by doing him a favour.
Thiruvalluvar
God exists in one's heart like the pupil in the eye. But ignorance causes a man to seek Him far and wide.
Kabir
Man needs a Guru. But a man must have faith in Guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his Guru as God himself.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.
Sonam Wangchuk
I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with god. I am therefore, humble enough to recognize evil as such; and I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
The pinching poverty of the wise is far better than the ill-gotten wealth.
Thirukkural
Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Forgiveness means they do not live in your mind anywhere.
B K Shivani
The days when you don't want to are the days when you have to if you want to reach your goal.
Jay Shetty
The preservation of freedom is not the task of the soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
I realised, in all humility, that choosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other options.
Dr V Kurien
Retaliation gives only a momentary joy. But forbearance gives everlasting glory.
Thirukkural
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where the light of the undying Sun shines, the light of burning lamp seems insignificant. By Guru's grace, I know this. Servant Namdev is absorbed in Celestial Lord.
Saint Namdev
Don't let the world change your smile, use your smile to change the world.
Jay Shetty
Work is not life. It is one expression of life. When the mind is restful, work becomes purposeful.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Women are the real architects of society.
Cher
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
The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
Paramhansa Yogananda
We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.
Sonam Wangchuk
The wind does not choose which odour to carry along, good or bad.
Osho Rajneesh
Because of his attachment to the body, man is not able to understand his divine nature.
Ramayana
Being grateful has limitations, No man can be greatful at the cost of his dignity, No woman at the cost of her chastity and No country at the cost of its freedom.
B R Ambedkar
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.
Apj Abdul Kalam
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and He tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, He comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that He is always at your beck and call, but on His terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, He has forsaken me.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a beautiful mystery. Just live it. Trying to understand mystry is confusing, when we live the mystery of life so totally, joy dawns.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The problem is not the lack of resources or capability, but the lack of will.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Kalidasa
In Bharat the Principles of Ethics are termed as Dharma--The Laws of Life.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
A fool, though he lives in the company of the wise, understands nothing of the true doctrine, as a spoon tastes not the flavour of the soup.
Gautam Buddha
Our mind is like a garden which can either be intelligently cultivated or be allowed to run wild.
R K Murti
The most beautiful moments in life are when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Through tapasya, we can overcome our ego and connect with the divine within us.
Annonymous
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
Khalil Gibran
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Excellence of the material body consists in colour, loveliness of form, strength and density.
Patanjali
Our attitude can be expressed in three ways: through words, through tears and through laughter.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
The world belongs to those who let go.
Lao Tzu
Brevity speaks. It forces you to convey complex thoughts.
Anand Mahindra
If I cannot speak or write about it, I struggle with the truth. When I speak out in an effort to process what I observe and attempt to stretch myself beyond my many inadequacies, people ask me am I not afraid of the government? I am scared of my inadequacies.
Ravish Kumar
HE and HIS Law are one. The Law is God. Anything attributed to HIM is not a mere attribute. HE is the attribute. HE is Truth, Love and Law and a million other things that human ingenuity can name.
Mahatma Gandhi
In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
Avicenna
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and deomonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin
The joy of giving is greater than the joy of receiving.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
This they call the highest state: when the five senses and the mind are still, when not even reason stirs.
Upanishad
Everyday is a new opportunity to make a positive change in your life.
Jaya Kishori
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
Life is there to ride, cherish those moments where life stands still.
Annonymous
The divine guidance often comes when the horizon is the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
You can count the number of fruits produced by a tree, but not the number of trees produced by its fruit.
Proverb
One must do noble deeds without delay, for death may come anytime.
Thirukkural
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
George Washington
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F Kennedy
The fundamental principles of Dharma are eternal and universal. However, their implementation may differ according to time, place and circumstances.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently, waste not breathe on others affairs; possesses foremost mark of wisdom truly.
Vidur
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
Swami Vivekananda
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-paul Sartre
All unenlightened persons produce sufferings. Having become deluded, they produce and reproduce sufferings, in this endless world.
Mahavira
Good fortuen enquires and enters the path of a person who has abundant zeal.
Thirukkural
They cannot make history who forget history.
B R Ambedkar
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
There's hope even when your brain tells there isn't.
John Green
The person who talks most of his own virtues is often the least virtuous.
Jawahar Lal Nehru

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