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India has a rich tradition of wisdome which lits our day lifts our spirits. However, our digital space is devoid of this treasure trove. Is it not an irony that a country that has abundant digital resources can not bring its own intellectual and spiritual wealth on one digital platform?
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Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
Mother Teresa

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If God dwells only in the mosque, then to whom belongeth the rest of the country?
Kabir
The small wisdom is like water in a glass - clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in a sea - dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
Even if hundreds like me are sacrificed, Victory must belong to truth. Do not be bothered about a mere mortal as me, as the truth must never be compromised.
Mahatma Gandhi
As we throw away our old worn-out garments and put on new ones, so the living soul after using the body throws it away when it is worn out dons a new one.
Bhagvad Gita
Sages say that the path of wisdom is narrow and difficult to tread, as narrow as the edge of a razor.
Upanishad
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Einstein
Through tapasya, we learn to be grateful for every moment and every experience.
Annonymous
Let righteousness and Dharma prevail, and all communities and societies progress. Let our beloved Motherland regain its lost glory, and the sons of Bharat be victorious.
Madan Mohan Malviya
I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margret Mead
The most beautiful moments in life are when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
Satya Sai Baba
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed
Ela Bhatt
The fundamental characteristic of Bhartiya Culture is that it looks upon life as an integrated whole.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
No matter how high the eagle flies its gaze is always on the ground.
Proverb
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
Che Guevara
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
I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
Sai Baba
I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.
Amartya Sen
You won't get success and greatness if you are over excited in happiness and afraid while struggle.
Maharana Pratap
A fool, though he lives in the company of the wise, understands nothing of the true doctrine, as a spoon tastes not the flavour of the soup.
Gautam Buddha
Negative energies cannot touch you if you are in a state of meditation.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
You can't cross the sea merely be standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
In order to achieve our goals, our methods must be as clean as the ultimate result!
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
When there are mangoes in the tree, stones are many.
Proverb
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
Fire and straw cannot agree.
Proverb
If laziness remains in a man of nobility, it will make him the slave of his enemy.
Thirukkural
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
Endowed with conduct and discipline, Who practices control of self, Who throws out all his bondage, He attains the eternal place.
Mahavira
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
Ivan Illich
I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
Kiran Bedi
In the past 1000 years whatever we have assimilated, whether it was forced on us or we took with willingness, cannot be discarded now.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Satyagraha is not a creed for the weak or the cowardly.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone needs to work. Even a lion cannot sleep, expecting a deer to enter his mouth.
Hitopadesha
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
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
You must set yourself buried in God. Then only shall you live. You gain by losing. You live by dying.
Swami Sivananda
One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.
M S Swaminathan
Anyone who doesn't make time frames beyond tomorrow, probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.
Anand Mahindra
A man of learning and self-control (sanyam) who is free from anger will be blessed by the god of virtue.
Thirukkural
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
Nobody is nobody's friend, nobody is nobody's wellwisher. Persons become friends or enemies only form motive of interest.
Bhishma Pitamaha
To travel is a better thing than to arrive.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
I never had money. But that had never stopped me.
Baba Amte
Even a squirrel can provide the help that he is capable of.
Proverb
Discipline (anushasan) brings honour. So, it should be cherished more precious than life.
Thirukkural
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
The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element
Mahavira
Eat fire and your mouth will burn, live on credit and your belly will burn.
Proverb
It is by art and literature that a society is judged at the bar of history.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
There is no better deed in heaven and earth than serving the society.
Thirukkural
Women are, all of them, the veritable image of Shakti.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Like the silkworm, you have built a cocoon around yourself. Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul.
Swami Vivekananda
Make a wrong-doer feel shy, by doing him a favour.
Thiruvalluvar
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
George Washington
The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.
Amartya Sen
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
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Jean-jacques Rousseau
Man's enemy is man, man's remedy is man.
Proverb
The agitated minds leads you to your own destruction.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
The best people to surround yourself with are the people that bring out the best in you.
Jay Shetty
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the whole community.
Savitribai Phule
What we cultivate in times of ease, we store up to support us in times of change.
Gautam Buddha
See life as an adventourous game and play the game without worrying about the outcome.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
True happiness is when the love within us finds expression in external activites.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.
Steve Jobs
Be moderate in your demands, just in your criticism, accurate in your facts, logical in your conclusions, and you can be sure that any propositions you make to our rulers will be considered by our strong and enlightened Governement.
Badruddin Tyabji
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted - and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
Arundhati Roy
The problem is not the lack of resources or capability, but the lack of will.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Teachers should be the best minds in the country.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Spirituality is neither a privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man.
Swami Chinmayananda
Every man should make it his duty to perform his journey in life by means of daily righteous dealing with all.
Rig Veda
He who eats after entertaining guests (atithi) will reap a harvest even without sowing the fields.
Thirukkural
The Purush alone is all this universe - the sacrificial works (Karma) and knowledge (tapas). All this is Brahman, the highest and the immortal. O good looking youth! He who knows this as seated in the cavity of the heart, he unties the knot of ignorance even here.
Mundokopanishad
Too much reverance is the mark of a cheat.
Proverb
Do not dig a well only after the hourse catches fire.
Proverb
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably superior than man.
Mahatma Gandhi
I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.
Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha
If you do not have a mission, no problem will occur, but if you do have a mission or task definitely problems of varying magnitudes will crop up. But problems should not become the master of the individuals, individuals should become the master of the problem, defeat it and succeed.
Dr Satish Dhawan
Don’t be worried about what the world thinks, do what is right and just in the eyes of the Lord.
Guru Govind Singh
Just like a corn in fire becomes edible and delicious as popcorn, similarly a person who faces reversals with humblesness and courage upgrades one's very existence.
Amogh Lila Das
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Those who have been fighting for India's freedom now have a clearer picture. A national consensus is emerging; even though divided by states, a sense of unity is bringing them closer. Caste and religious distinctions are beginning to dissolve in the face of the common goal of freedom. A sense of nationalism and its pride has spread all over the country.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Indian art is not one thing. Indian art is so many different schools and styles. (Nevertheless) I think lyricism, the love of nature, the symbolic aspect of art (like showing rain in a few lines of dots in a Rajput miniature) the looking for the essence in natural forms and human forms, and then going for the essence rather than the surface - that I think is primarily what distinguishes Indian art from Western art. Not just Indian art but Eastern art in general. Chinese and Japanese art also, if you come to think about it, have the same qualities as Indian art.
Satyajit Ray
Take care of each moment and you'll take care of all time.
Gautam Buddha
To explain God merely after reading the scriptures is explaining to a person the city of Banaras after seeing it only on a map.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone De Beauvoir

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