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This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
Paramhansa Yogananda

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Mahatma Gandhi
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Death includes it all, all castes, all kinds. He is no man's enemy and no man's friend.
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
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
Life gives you both positive and negative. Focus on the good, and move ahead with commitment.
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An artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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A nation is built in its educational institutions.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
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The contented man looks into his own heart to find total peace.
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What does a monkey know of the taste of the ginger?
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For when confessed, the sin becomes less, since it becomes the truth.
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I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsi but above all an Indian first.
Dadabhai Naoroji
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King Jr
Life is like a lamp flame; it needs a little oil now and then.
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Save the spiritual store in your body by observing continence.
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Too much reverance is the mark of a cheat.
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Everyone needs to work. Even a lion cannot sleep, expecting a deer to enter his mouth.
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Those who know that envy causes sufferings will never do evil out of envy.
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Penance has the power to destroy the enemies and elevate the friends.
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Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.
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Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude, when you step away.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved; it is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
Swami Vivekananda
Better a thousand enemies than an unfaithful friend.
Proverb
A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The artist is a lover of nature. Therefore he is her slave and her master.
Rabindranath Tagore
If we have to die, we must die like brave men. As human beings with a sense of human dignity, we cannot die crying.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Satyagraha is not a creed for the weak or the cowardly.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
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
The Learned say that saints alone are brahmans; true, for they behave as clothed in grace to every living thing.
Thiruvalluvar
Snakes are venomous reptiles. But the man who has learned the art of snake charming can play even with seven snakes coiled around his snake. Similarly, a man of realization is immune to the dangers of worldly life.
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A contented mind is a continual feast.
Proverb
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
If one knows that meat is only a sore of an animal, one will refrain from eating it.
Thirukkural
Paper knowledge, paper evaluations, paper degrees all too papery and all too theoretical; it has very little that prepares us for real life in the real world.
Sonam Wangchuk
Through Zeal, knowledge is gotton; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
Gautam Buddha
Our mind is like a garden which can either be intelligently cultivated or be allowed to run wild.
R K Murti
Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
Baba Amte
One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
Sai Baba
The path to success is often paved with hard work and determination.
Jaya Kishori
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the whole community.
Savitribai Phule
Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
If the performance of Yajnas is the corner-stone of the work-portion of the Vedas, as surely is Brahmacharya the foundation of the knowledge-portion.
Swami Vivekananda
It is better to work out than rust out.
Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah
 When you are enthusiastic, the mountain also looks like a clay pile.
Chhatarapati Shivaji
Tapasya is the ultimate test of self-control and self-mastery. By practicing tapasya, we can train our mind and body to overcome any obstacle.
Annonymous
If I die in this struggle for freedom, I am sure I will be born again and again in this great country. I shall live for my country, dream for her freedom and try with all my strength to fulfil the dreams.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba
To discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.
J Krishnamurthi
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
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Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separable from the problem.
J Krishnamurthi
Whether an illness affects your heart, your brain or your leg, It's still an illness and there should be no distinction.
Michelle Obama
An extremist or terrorist who is ready to kill resources is thereby offering to sacrifice his own life for the cause. Hence a potential extremist is an appropriate recruit for social action at a higher moral level - namely non-violent satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even the thought of robbing others' wealth is a sin and so it must be eschewed.
Thirukkural
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
A dancer is not just a dancer. S/he is part of this environment. S/he does not exist in a vacuum. Society and its happenings have an impact on all individuals, especially artists. If an art form does not reflect the existing milieu, it stagnates.
Sonal Mansingh
Wise men who have clear mind will refrain from eating the flesh of a lifeless animal.
Thirukkural
A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.
Charaka
There’s no knowledge without right faith, no conduct is possible without knowledge, without conduct, there’s no liberation, and without liberation, no deliverance.
Mahavira
Caste is a monster that crosses your path every step you take.
Jyotiba Phule
But it is impossible for us to realize perfect Truth so long as we are imprisoned in this mortal frame. We can only visualize it in our imagination. We cannot, through the instrumentality of this ephemeral body, see face to face Truth which is eternal. That is why in the last resort we must depend on faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even the unlearned man should listen to the learned. It will serve as a support in times of need.
Thirukkural
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions. You have to run by ideas, not by hierarchy.
Steve Jobs
I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.
Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Swami Vivekananda
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln
Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship.
B R Ambedkar
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Faith is the bird that feels the light when dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less.
Sonam Wangchuk
Company's size doesn't matter. Credibility does.
Anand Mahindra
If you cry because the Sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
The work that you do is to be performed with a right attitude.
Swami Sardananda
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
Think of yourself as if you were the only unenlightened person in the world. Everyone else is your teacher.
Gautam Buddha
Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.
Ela Bhatt
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
Mahavira
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love thy neighbour as thyself because you are your neighbour. It is an illusion that makes you think that your neighbour is someone other than yourself.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The greatest virtue is to bear insult without resentment.
Bhishma Pitamaha
I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.
Kiran Bedi
Want Love, Accept yourself. Need Respect, Value yourself. 
B K Shivani
Remember that the greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.
Subhash Chandra Bose
It is better to refrain from killing and eating meat than numerous offerings of ghee on fire.
Thirukkural
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
Nelson Mandela
He is neither attached to worldliness nor lets senses and anger affect him. In such a person resides God.
Guru Teg Bahadur
One who commits unrighteousness and earns money by dishonesty, who is unthinking and such a person is a fool.
Samarth Guru Ramdas
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
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
If God dwells only in the mosque, then to whom belongeth the rest of the country?
Kabir
One should first weigh the investment, expenditure and income, and then proceed.
Thirukkural
Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers… but it comes when you are ready to face off the question.
Annonymous

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