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I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a Living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and recreates. That informing Power or Spirit is God. And since nothing else I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.
Mahatma Gandhi

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J Krishnamurthi
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Dr S Radhakrishnan
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Annonymous
Devotion alone can save a person, needing no help of any other means.
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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.
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And is this Power benevolent or malevolent? I see it is purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love, He is the Supreme Good.
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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.
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If there is strength in the public, they shall get whatever they need.
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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on till the scope of our love becomes coterminous with the world.
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Incarceration in my country is better than freedom abroad.
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Anyone who doesn't make time frames beyond tomorrow, probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.
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The mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought and every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body.
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Where there is realization outside the senses it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of god within. Such testimony is to be found in the experiences in all countries and climes. To reject this evidence is to deny oneself.
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Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.
M S Swaminathan
Everyone has a different clock. Wait for your time.
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Paramhansa Yogananda
I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
Sai Baba
Too much honesty is not a good thing. Honest people get screwed first and straight trees are cut first.
Chanakya
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By the establishment of continence energy is gained. The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will-power. Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength. Continence gives wonderful control over mankind. The spiritual leaders of men have been very continent, and this is what gave them power. Therefore the Yogi must be continent.
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Men who fear blame will consider even their small fault as a great blunder.
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Life gives you both positive and negative. Focus on the good, and move ahead with commitment.
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Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
B R Ambedkar
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M S Swaminathan
The trick of enjoying life is to accept your age. Don't fight the years, grow with them.
Shabana Azmi
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Baba Amte
Take the stones people throw at you. And use them to build a monument.
Ratan Tata
It is very easy to run away from everything, yet difficult to wake up; don’t run from your life, from your duties, from those around you; awake to them!
Morari Bapu
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Ram Manohar Lohia
We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
B R Ambedkar
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In a great house even a dog is respected.
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Proverb
We are placed here as children playing in the lap of nature.
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The king who aspires to monarchy must ever guard his kingdom with sleepless eyes.
Mahabharata
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Swami Vivekananda
The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself.
Jaya Kishori
Every challenge has its own unique problems.
Kiran Bedi
Do not kill your goad just for its wool.
Proverb
When a certain quantity of milk is mixed with double the quantity of water, it requires a good deal of time and labor to condense it. The mind of a worldly man is diluted with the filthy water of impure thoughts, and he has to work long and hard to purify it.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Even a harmless lie can be considered as truth when it brings benevolent results.
Thirukkural
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
A man is universe in miniature - and the universe, a giant living body.
Kabir
If some of you see the villages, you will not be fascinated by the sight. You will have to scratch below the dung heap. I do not say that they ever were heavenly places. Today they are really dung-heaps. They were not like that before. What I say is not from history but from what I have seen myself. I have travelled from one end of India to the other and have seen the miserable specimen of humanity with lustreless eyes. They are India. In these humble cottages, in the midst of these dung-heaps, are to be found the humble Bhangis in whom you find the concentrated essence of wisdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
If a man prays to thee with a yearning heart, he can reach thee, though thy grace, by any path.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.
Mahesh Yogi
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba
Education is not merely teaching of various academic subjects, but the cultivation of total reposnibilities in the student.
J Krishnamurthi
Development is, ultimately, the progress of human freedom and capability to lead the kind of lives that people have reason to value.
Jean Dreze
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power. The Brahmachârin must be sexually pure in thought, word, and deed. Lose regard for the body; get rid of the consciousness of it so far as possible.
Swami Vivekananda
Desire in itself is not evil. Desire is an incentive to actions and stimulant to active life.
Zarathushtra
Sages say that the path of wisdom is narrow and difficult to tread, as narrow as the edge of a razor.
Upanishad
In simplicity lies the entire glory of the world!
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
The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
Kiran Bedi
What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
The best way to perform a deed is learning the techniques from an expert.
Thirukkural
The practice of tapasya requires us to face our fears and transcend them.
Annonymous
Those that have devotion towards Me will get knowledge and renunciation and they will attain liberation from the round of births and deaths.
Ramayana
Strong women do not have 'attitude', we have standards.
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Good and evil deeds are not equal. Repel evil with what is better; then you will see that one who was once your enemy has become your dearest friend.
Quran
Evil thoughts do not grow alone in mature heads. They can spring up like weeds in the minds of children too.
Mahabharata
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
Divine wisdom leads to uncluttered thoughts within, which further leads to uncluttered actions.
Amogh Lila Das
A disciple (shishya) should reach the Master in a spirit of humble adoration and complete surrender, with a passionate urge to know and with an indomitable will to suffer any amount of difficulties in living the life of retirement and privations.
Swami Chinmayananda
When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Beat not enmity to anyone. God is contained in every heart. Enmity and jealousy shall depart from the heart of him, who heareth God's praises.
Bawan Akhari Pauri
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
With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion. I am a farmer of the heart.
Rumi
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Silence is the ocean in which all the rivers of all the religions discharge themselves.
Thayumanavar
There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.
Sonam Wangchuk
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Friedrich Engels
He who has not ceased from bad conduct cannot obtain Brahma by Vidya.
Kathopnishad
The Unit of Seed finds expression in various forms-The Roots, The Trunk, The Branches, The Leaves, The Flowers and The Fruit. All these have different forms, colours and properties. Still we recognise their relation of unity with each other through seed.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.
Ela Bhatt
When He is seen both in the higher and the lower, the knots of seeker's heart becomes untied; all doubts are dispelled; and all his karmas are consumed.
Mundokopanishad
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Aristotle
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Rumi
Retaliation gives only a momentary joy. But forbearance gives everlasting glory.
Thirukkural

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