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I believe that schools of today with all their answers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, above everything else, take us back to the industrial revolution in time, when people thought that nature could be conquered and consumption or production could be unlimited.
Sonam Wangchuk

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I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have loved, will realise the Lord.
Guru Govind Singh
Don't limit a child to your own learning for they were born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let us move on to the stars. Who can hamper our ascent?
Sarojini Naidu
Giving even before one expresses one's poverty is the quality found in a noble man.
Thirukkural
May all roads lead to infinite love.
A R Rehman
In simplicity lies the entire glory of the world!
Mahatma Gandhi
He who receives guests (atithi) one after another will be an honoured guest in heaven.
Thirukkural
[A balanced economic system is one which provides] sufficiency for all and superfluity for some. The MNCs have entered the country like nomads. The majority doesn't need Pepsi or Coke, they want water. You can have your skyscrapers and Cokes but before this you must ensure that that tribal girl defecating in the open has the privacy of a toilet.
Baba Amte
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
Who is helping you, don't forget them. Who is loving you, don't hate them. Who is trusting you, don't cheat them.
Swami Vivekananda
Follow the path of love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.
Narayan Murthy
To be one with the world is wisdom.
Thiruvalluvar
A person who conquers his own self is greater than the one who conquers thousands in battle.
Mahavira
You won't get success and greatness if you are over excited in happiness and afraid while struggle.
Maharana Pratap
If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate an entire family.
Jyotiba Phule
In order to attain to ideal Brahmacharya one has in the beginning to observe strict rules regarding chastity. Not only should one keep oneself strictly aloof from the least association with the opposite sex, but also give up the company of married people even.
Swami Vivekananda
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
Kailash Satyarthi
A gem may fall on dust and dirt, but its value is never hurt.
Proverb
The greatest power is the power of love.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma Gandhi
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
We don't get a chance to do that many things and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief and then you die, you know? We have all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
Steve Jobs
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Swami Vivekananda
Religion should help individuals to become better human beings.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
Kailash Satyarthi
Perseverance opens up treasures which bring perennial joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
For every negative person in your life, have three uplifting people.
Jay Shetty
A man who practises self-control (sanyam) is greater than the greatness and firmness of a mountain.
Thirukkural
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramhansa Yogananda
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
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
Ela Bhatt
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
We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.
Sonam Wangchuk
Nobody is nobody's friend, nobody is nobody's wellwisher. Persons become friends or enemies only form motive of interest.
Bhishma Pitamaha
Much like the aroma of the flower carried by the wind, a person's goodness touches all directions.
Chanakya
The water on the lotus is extremely unsteady; even so is life fickle in the extreme; know that gripped by disease and desire, the whole world becomes struck with misery.
Adi Shankaracharya
If we believe in non-violence, it would not be right if we refuse to protect the weak in the name of non-violence. I may be ready to embrace even a snake, but if it comes to bite you, I will kill it to protect you.
Mahatma Gandhi
An artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Ananda K Coomaraswamy
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
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
Devotion alone can save a person, needing no help of any other means.
Madhavadeva
An intelligent man knows that death is born along with his own birth.
Bhaktivedant Swami Prabhupad
Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Rama naam frees us from fear, Ram naam frees us from disease, and lastly His name frees us from our flaws.
Morari Bapu
Bhakti is love - loving God, loving your own self, and loving all beings. The small heart should become bigger and bigger, and eventually totally expansive. A spark can create a forest fire.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
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
A cup is useful only when it is empty.
J Krishnamurthi
Freedom is a state of mind - not freedom from something.
J Krishnamurthi
Perfection is the attribute of the Almighty, and yet what a great democrat HE is! What an amount of wrong and humbug HE suffers on our part! HE even suffers insignificant creatures of HIS to question HIS very existence, though HE is in every atom about us, around us and within us. But, HE has reserved to HIMSELF the right of becoming manifest to whom so ever HE chooses. HE is a Being without hands and other organs, yet one can see HIM who HE chooses to reveal Himself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Empty and crude speech in public is fruitless and devoid of virtue.
Thirukkural
 Is this democracy? All have come together to make money. 
Anna Hazare
You who believe, seek help through patience and prayer; surely, God is with the steadfast.
Quran
Just wake up and see that all the past is only a memory. In the flow of time, all events are dissolving.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Love has the power to derive pleasure from mistakes, discords, in-capacity. A mother's love overflows at the false step of the child whom she is teaching to walk.
Rabindranath Tagore
Men who fear blame will consider even their small fault as a great blunder.
Thirukkural
Watch people do their most common actions - these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Swami Vivekananda
All the knowledge in the world is no good if it deserts a person in the hour of need.
Ramayana
The spinning-wheel has almost been forgotten. There is all this talk of militarization and industrialization. But it is my conviction that a day will come when they will all see for themselves that for India there is no way other than that of village industries and non-violence. We shall not find a way out unless we develop these. But I am still optimistic.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
A successful leader maintains a balance by listerning to the head as well as the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.
Arun Shourie
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
A civilization can be judged by the way it treats its minorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Design is not what it looks like and feel like. Design it how it works.
Steve Jobs
We are not going to be free but free already.
Swami Vivekananda
In times of need we even call a donkey king.
Proverb
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically, but you have to first find what you are good at.
Vishwanathan Anand
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
Opposition in life is like a shadow. There's no shadow when you are lying on the ground. It appears the moment you stand up. When you are with the light, the shadow is behind you. If you are fighting shadows, you've turned away from light. Wake up and walk; your path is already lit.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The agitated minds leads you to your own destruction.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is always dark at the foot of the lighthouse.
Proverb
There is no need to tonsure or grow long hair if one shuns evil deeds.
Thirukkural
Life is a journey and challenges are just a pit stop along the way.
Jaya Kishori
They cannot make history who forget history.
B R Ambedkar
Iron and knowledge will get spoiled if they are not used.
Proverb
A true leader has a long term vision and a short term plan to work on it.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
Mahavira
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
Einstein
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Even the thought of robbing others' wealth is a sin and so it must be eschewed.
Thirukkural
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Destiny is the greatest power which will overcome all human efforts.
Thirukkural
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
Sages say that the path of wisdom is narrow and difficult to tread, as narrow as the edge of a razor.
Upanishad
One may consider coveting another's wife (Vyabhichar) lightly. But the disgrace will stay forever.
Thirukkural
There is no economy in the world which is a mixed economy. The question is, what kind of mixture?
Amartya Sen
Our aim is not to destroy the trees but to preserve them. When the men go to cut them, why don't we cling to the trees, and dare them to let their axes fall on our backs?
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
What greater worship can there be than nature's own festival of lights!
Kabir
Compassion is the greatest wealth. Even the worst of men possesses worldly wealth.
Thirukkural
The more you know less likely you are to be afraid.
Savitribai Phule
The wise will scent danger beforehand, and hold the mind from wavering when danger comes.
Mahabharata
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action - Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore
Its not the side of the bigger army that wins. It’s the country that tells a better story, that wins.
Shashi Tharoor
We all make mistakes, don't be too harsh to yourself and keep punishing yourself and keep tormenting yourself for what has already been done and can't be undone. Learn your lessons and move on.
Gaur Gopal Das

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