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The ocean is the goal of all streams and of the rains from the clouds, yet it is never overflowing and never emptied; so the Dharma is embraced by many millions of people yet it neither increases nor decreases.
Gautam Buddha

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Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata
Creation is the image of the creator.
Rig Veda
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
Nelson Mandela
He who shows himself what he is not, he wears two dresses of deceitfulness.
Hadis
Life would be dull and colorless but for the obstacles that we have to overcome and the fights that we have to win.
Rabindranath Tagore
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
Gautam Buddha
If I have to serve the country, I will have to live my life with patience and sobriety.
Mahatma Gandhi
He alone is a man who keeps his word: Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.
Guru Govind Singh
Living with devotion to and with thoughts of the scriptures and of God is punya.
Morari Bapu
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls, but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Kailash Satyarthi
Sunlight is neither yours nor mine.
J Krishnamurthi
Courtesy is the most precious of jewels. The beauty that is not perfected by courtesy is like a garden without a flower.
Buddhacharita
Realise, realise that you are the infinity within. Know that. The very moment a person knows himself to be that, the very moment a man realises his true nature, above all danger, above all difficulty, above all suffering, above all tribulation and pain. Know that, be yourself.
Swami Ramtirth
Forgiveness means they do not live in your mind anywhere.
B K Shivani
Those who sit idly in the expectation of God's help are great fools.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
An individual that maintains a balanced state of the main elements of the body, blissful condition of the soul, satisfied senses and a happy state of mind is called a swastha or healthy person.
Sushrut
He who does not jump into the floods does not have to worry about drowning. He who follows the standards of health will live a long and healthy life. Similarly, one who would not entertain the sensation of “I” (Ahankar) on all occasions of activity and non-activity will have no dread in this world. How can dread arise when a sense of unity has dawned and everyone else looks to be a part of one’s self?
Gyaneshwar
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of its parts. That's how I see business… Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
True human is one who bows down to even weakest of nobles and makes strongest of tyrants bow down.
Maharana Pratap
If defeated and killed on the field of battle, we shall surely earn eternal glory and salvation.
Jhansi Ki Raani
They cannot make history who forget history.
B R Ambedkar
No matter how high the eagle flies its gaze is always on the ground.
Proverb
To discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.
J Krishnamurthi
Power comes invariably to be usurped by a handful of the most ruthless among the erstwhile revolutionaries when power comes out of the barrel of a gun and the gun is not in the hands of the common people.
Jai Prakash Narayan
Live your life to the fullest.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's not that we have solution to all problems. Therefore I say do not look at someone who will solve all your problems. Look for someone who won't let you face them alone.
Gaur Gopal Das
I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.
Kiran Bedi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.
Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha
A nation is built in its educational institutions.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
There are lessons to be learnt from everyone. The wise person realises this.
Ramayana
Don't be dead serious about your life - it's just a play.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The best people to surround yourself with are the people that bring out the best in you.
Jay Shetty
Tolerance is the homage which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the infinite
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Faith and trust can move mountains.
Ramayana
A horse cannot be judged by its saddle.
Proverb
Cheerful patience is required both for naughty children and your own mind.
Gautam Buddha
Pray to him anyway you like. He can hear footfall of an ant.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
When fear lurks, don't cower. Confront and conquer it swiftly.
Chanakya
If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
Shashi Tharoor
There are certain things which only you can do. No one else can do them. Find what they are and go and do them.
J P Vaswani
Hegel put forward the principles of thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis; Karl Marx used this principle as a basis and presented his analysis of history and economics; Darwin considered the principle of survival of the fittest as the sole basis of life; but we in this country saw the basic unity of all life.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi
He is neither attached to worldliness nor lets senses and anger affect him. In such a person resides God.
Guru Teg Bahadur
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less.
Sonam Wangchuk
All moments are beautiful - only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings - only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept them with deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.
Osho Rajneesh
Praising somebody in their presence and then backbiting are worse than decrying virtue and doing evils.
Thirukkural
You must set yourself buried in God. Then only shall you live. You gain by losing. You live by dying.
Swami Sivananda
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When there are mangoes in the tree, stones are many.
Proverb
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
John Ruskin
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
Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world.
Mirza Husayn 'ali Nuri
Deep and vast knowledge gained is of no use if one madly covets another man's wealth.
Thirukkural
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.
Apj Abdul Kalam
You can't cross the sea merely be standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people's opinions.
C Rajagopalachari
Religion should help individuals to become better human beings.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Swami Vivekananda
In a great house even a dog is respected.
Proverb
The worst flaws of a man will be searched out and revealed if he backbites.
Thirukkural
The trick of enjoying life is to accept your age. Don't fight the years, grow with them.
Shabana Azmi
Old age comes with the passage of time. Maturity comes with deep reflection.
Swami Chinmayananda
The most remarkable phenomenon is that all men, all animals desire to live forever.
Swami Vijnanananda
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
So I’ll say this —leave the advice & do the right thing, even if it isn’t the easiest thing to do. When you look back at your life, that’s what’s going to matter the most. Doing the right thing.
Ratan Tata
An artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Ananda K Coomaraswamy
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Remember there can be no happiness for anyone unless it is won for all.
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
Swami Vivekananda
Knowing their worth, the goddess of wealth stays with the wise who value virtue and do not covet riches.
Thirukkural
Life is like riding a bycycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Einstein
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It is the very wrestling with our problems that that can be impetus for our growth.
Fred Rogers
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
One may consider coveting another's wife (Vyabhichar) lightly. But the disgrace will stay forever.
Thirukkural
Through tapasya, we can develop a deep sense of inner peace and contentment.
Annonymous
If there is strength in the public, they shall get whatever they need.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Don't hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you, if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
Swami Vivekananda
Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment.
Rabindranath Tagore
One should excel in good conduct (aacharan) and take pains to cultivate and guard it.
Thirukkural
Your experiece of life is proportional to your emotional state... Mind can make hell out of heaven or heaven out of hell.
Gaur Gopal Das
You can't sell the cow and have the mik too.
Proverb
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati Roy
We can, We must.
Swami Chinmayananda
Devotion alone can save a person, needing no help of any other means.
Madhavadeva
We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
Vinoba Bhave
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
That with the help of which we can know the truth, control the restless mind, and purify the soul is called knowledge in the Jain doctrine.
Mahavira
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napolean Bonapart
The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature
Dr S Radhakrishnan
A civilization can be judged by the way it treats its minorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Time is the seed of the Universe.
Ved Vyas
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati

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