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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
Satya Sai Baba

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Strength lies not in unrestrained behaviour but in well regulated action.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln
The language of our democracy should be such that the weakest in our society should feel safe.
Ravish Kumar
We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.
Abhijit Banerjee
If you admit internal purity of the human soul, you or your religion can never get impure or defiled in any way by touch or association with any man.
Madan Mohan Malviya
If love was not the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death. Life is a perpetual triumph over the grave.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Preserve the best in your tradition and culture, and live for selfless devotion to your ideas.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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
None can destroy iron. But its rust can. Likewise none can destroy a person but his own mindset can.
Ratan Tata
 Take no pride in the body, It will soon be mingling with the dust.
Meera Bai
What is dangerous is not making mistakes, but to be so enamored of one’s point of view that one does not let facts get in the way. To make progress, we have to constantly go back to the facts, acknowledge our errors, and move.
Abhijit Banerjee
In a great house even a dog is respected.
Proverb
Education is not merely teaching of various academic subjects, but the cultivation of total reposnibilities in the student.
J Krishnamurthi
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
Steve Jobs
The appearance of a seed is in direct contradiction to its true nature.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
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
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
He who bears no ill will to any being, is friendly and compassionate, without attachment and egotism, balanced in pleasure and pain and forgiving, ever content, harmonious with the self-controlled resolute mind and reason dedicated to Me; he, My devotee, is dear to Me.
Bhagvad Gita
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Endurance is the most difficult discipline, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Gautam Buddha
Just as a building supported by strong pillars decays in course of time and comes down, so do men pass away, being victims of old age and death.
Ramayana
You can't cross the sea merely be standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
Thiruvalluvar
As you go forgetting yourself materially, just in the same proportion do spiritual peace and spiritual powers flow in towards you.
Virchand Gandhi
Water whether hot or cold will extinguish the fire.
Proverb
There are some things that appear to be small. A Mantra, a Naam is so small and yet accomplishes such big things.
Morari Bapu
Let us look for gems together but remain friends.
Proverb
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
Arundhati Roy
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its reason for existence.
Einstein
The most auspicious moment of your life is when you make the commitment to know the truth.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
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
If we have an aim and yet can never reach it, then it is no aim at all.
Rabindranath Tagore
Death visits us only once, never twice and it does not make any distinction between a millionaire and a pauper, why, then, should we be afraid of it? Let us all cast aside and for all these false fears of death.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
A good leader is truthful, equanimous, transparent, farsighted and has a pleasant personality.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
One should understand a brahman who merely reads much, to be a man of many words. Know him only to be true Brahman who swerves not from the truth.
Sanatsugatia
Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
Swami Vivekananda
If I rest, I rust.
Swami Chinmayananda
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
Simone De Beauvoir
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
Sai Baba
Those who hoard and lose wealth do not know the joy of gladdening the poor with charity.
Thirukkural
There is no need to tonsure or grow long hair if one shuns evil deeds.
Thirukkural
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is not merely a form of government, it is a way of life, an act of faith in the dignity and freedom of the individual.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
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
Freedom is a state of mind - not freedom from something.
J Krishnamurthi
Females are the most georgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think we are goegeous no matter what size we are.
Alicia Keys
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
Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.
Paulo Freire
Know that the chanting of My Name destroys all sins in this world, if the chanting is done with one-pointed devotion and complete dependence upon me.
Ramayana
By remembering one help rendered, even a dreadful harm is forgotten.
Thirukkural
Meditation is a personal relationship and a conversation with Him.
B K Shivani
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we keep putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.
Tipu Sultan
Struggle for justice builds your character; unity brings forth our strength. Our tolerance and sacrifice is also tested. Always remember, your future is to some extent in your own hands.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
If there is strength in the public, they shall get whatever they need.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.
Sonam Wangchuk
I want art and literature that can speak to the humanbeing.
R B Harishchandra
If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
Shashi Tharoor
Don't try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you'll be fine.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If only we concentrate on discharging our immediate duty and apply ourselves with unswerving faith and devotion to the task of today, we shall have no difficulty in knowing what our duties will be tomorrow.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
You can't sell the cow and have the mik too.
Proverb
Meciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.
Bhagat Singh
Nobody is nobody's friend, nobody is nobody's wellwisher. Persons become friends or enemies only form motive of interest.
Bhishma Pitamaha
Take care of each moment and you'll take care of all time.
Gautam Buddha
If we can love the goodness of the world, then we are loving God.
Surdas
The best thing about being an entrepreneur is the opportunities are endless. And the sky is the limit. And it is great fun.
Karan Bilimoria
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
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 human body is the greatest temple of God.
Swami Brahmananda
Struggle is the law of progress.
Lala Lajpat Rai
The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.
Mahesh Yogi
Faith is the bird that feels the light when dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
The government's money is the people's money. Make effective policies for the benefit of the people.
Anna Hazare
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
You will never be happy if you always care what other people think of you.
B K Shivani
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and its unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the sustainable management of land resources as well as the conservation of prime farmland for agriculture.
M S Swaminathan
Always be contented with what you have; never with what you are.
Zarathushtra
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 will be a backlash from those who don't benefit from the system.
Rahul Bajaj
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Request the people of my country to continue this kranti. People should continue to fight even if I am not there. 
Anna Hazare
The work that you do is to be performed with a right attitude.
Swami Sardananda
Even a harmless lie can be considered as truth when it brings benevolent results.
Thirukkural
Forgivenss frees the soul and opens the doors to inner peace.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Don't be a candle that needs a flame to burn, be a Sun that burns on its own.
Rumi
Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun…
Mao Zedong
Iron and knowledge will get spoiled if they are not used.
Proverb
Our life carries within it a record that time cannot blur or death erase.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho Rajneesh
Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently, waste not breathe on others affairs; possesses foremost mark of wisdom truly.
Vidur
The citizens are the masters of this country and the mininsters are their servants.
Anna Hazare
The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
Paramhansa Yogananda

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