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I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
Sai Baba

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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
Gurar your hard earned knowledge, like skilled healers who safeguards their remedy's recipe.
Chanakya
Swaraj has no meaning until it can annihilate the yawning gap between the haves and have nots.
Maulana Azad
It is better to refrain from killing and eating meat than numerous offerings of ghee on fire.
Thirukkural
Never expect anything less than what you are entitled to. It's self-respect, not pride.
Chanakya
Happiness is not found in external circumstances, but in the depths of your own being.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Time is the seed of the Universe.
Ved Vyas
Purity of thought and deed develops according to the pure conduct of one's friends.
Thirukkural
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses. But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Knowing their worth, the goddess of wealth stays with the wise who value virtue and do not covet riches.
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I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsi but above all an Indian first.
Dadabhai Naoroji
A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The advice of the righteous is like a stick that helps one on a marshy ground.
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Incarceration in my country is better than freedom abroad.
Subhash Chandra Bose
God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
Eat fire and your mouth will burn, live on credit and your belly will burn.
Proverb
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
John F Kennedy
A successful leader maintains a balance by listerning to the head as well as the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Teachers should be the best minds in the country.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Earlier organizations made individuals, today individuals make an organization.
Rahul Bajaj
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
The One who knows the exact line of demarcation between prarabdh (effect of past life karma) and purusharth (effort that charges karma) is the Gnani (the enlightened One).
Dada Bhagwan
Religion can be defended by the purity of its adherents and their good deeds, never by quarrels with those of other faiths.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
Swami Vivekananda
Those who renounce ego and control the mind through penance are worshipped by all living beings.
Thirukkural
High character and nobility of life are better than high heredity and nobility of birth.
Zarathushtra
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
Each day strive to accomplish some thing that you have always thought you could not accomplish.
Paramhansa Yogananda
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Rumi
Pray to him anyway you like. He can hear footfall of an ant.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
Avicenna
Desire never abates with the enjoyment of what are desired. Like fire, fed with ghee, it grows all the more.
Adi Parva
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
A wise man with a determined mind will conquer even a flood of troubles.
Thirukkural
Believe in kindness and serving others without any purpose.
Mahatma Gandhi
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.
Aruna Roy
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less.
Sonam Wangchuk
Men of righteous conduct (aacharan) never utter evil words even by a slip of the tongue.
Thirukkural
Every bird is injured here. But the one who could fly again is alive there.
Annonymous
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx
To rule wisely, the leader must take care to listen to all, scoff at none, ignore none.
Ramayana
Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Our life carries within it a record that time cannot blur or death erase.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
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
My demands will not change. You can cut off my head but not force me to bow down.
Anna Hazare
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
There is no harm if we possess the things of the world. But if would be a tragedy if things of the world possess us.
Swami Chinmayananda
A good leader creates leaders, not followers.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The values of life are more valuable than the valuables of life.
Swami Tejomayanand
Though one may be a little bubble and another may be a mountain-high wave, yet behind both the bubble and the wave there is the infinite ocean.
Swami Vivekananda
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napolean Bonapart
Meditation is a personal relationship and a conversation with Him.
B K Shivani
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
Brahmacharya should be like a burning fire within the veins!
Swami Vivekananda
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its reason for existence.
Einstein
Water whether hot or cold will extinguish the fire.
Proverb
The principles of Marx have changed both with the changing times as well as with varying conditions to the extent that parrot-like repetition of Marxism for solving problems facing our country would amount to a reactionary attitude rather than a scientific & pragmatic one.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Oh Khusrau, the river of love runs in strange directions. The one who jumps into it drowns, and one who drowns is the one who gets across…
Amir Khusro
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
Experience is less relevant than knowledge and the ability to learn and to innovate.
Vikram Sarabhai
Never blame anyone if you got hurt by them because it was not their fault, it was you who gave the right to tear you apart.
Jay Shetty
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. There is water inside the jar, water outside but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Swarajya is my birthright and I shall have it.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.
Sonam Wangchuk
Belief in God can never be a matter for argument.
Mahatma Gandhi
And did the thought never come to you that you are also subject to decay, that you also cannot escape it?
Gautam Buddha
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
The snake itself is not affected by the poison in its fangs; but when it bites, the poison kills the creature bitten. Likewise, Maya is in the Lord but does not affect Him, while the same Maya deludes the whole world.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
Friedrich Engels
One must do noble deeds without delay, for death may come anytime.
Thirukkural
Civilization should be the expression of man's dharma in his corporate life.
Rabindranath Tagore
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Kalidasa
Tapasya is not just a physical practice, it is a mental and spiritual discipline as well.
Annonymous
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart -- I'll always be with you.
Christopher Robin
Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world.
Mirza Husayn 'ali Nuri
A true diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.
Mahatma Gandhi
On seeing the cold look of the host, the face of the guests (atithi) withers like the anicham (a delicate sensitive flower) that withers when smelt.
Thirukkural
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
Sai Baba
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
Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers… but it comes when you are ready to face off the question.
Annonymous
If one knows that meat is only a sore of an animal, one will refrain from eating it.
Thirukkural
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
He who covets another's wife (Vyabhichar) will always sink in enmity, sin, fear and disgrace.
Thirukkural
Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude, when you step away.
Anand Mahindra
But if yours is to be a spiritual warfare, your weapons must be those of the spiritual soldier. Anger is not for you, hatred is not for you, nor for you is pettiness, meanness or falsehood.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interest. This is bitter truth.
Chanakya
If a man prays to thee with a yearning heart, he can reach thee, though thy grace, by any path.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The pursuit of truth is the duty of every individual.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Any competition will make you more efficient, but that is not the only way of becoming more efficient. Efficiency is within you.
Kishore Biyani
Only that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries.
Mahavira
The man who cannot appreciate music and literature is exactly like the lower animals, even though he may not possess horns and a tail.
Bhartrihari
We do not know all the laws of God nor their working. Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greater spiritualist is like a particle of dust. If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more. He rules me in the tiniest detail of my life. I believe literally that not a leaf moves but by His will. Every breath I take depends upon His sufferance.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a beautiful mystery. Just live it. Trying to understand mystry is confusing, when we live the mystery of life so totally, joy dawns.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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