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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
Lal Bahadur Shastri

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The right to know is the right to live.
Aruna Roy
Remember there can be no happiness for anyone unless it is won for all.
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The world as a whole demands the philosophy of coexistence, not merely passive, neural coexistence, but active, mutual, educative coexistence.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
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.
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There is no ladder to climb - there is only the first step, and the first step is the everlasting step.
J Krishnamurthi
You may go with a fanfare to a happy home, but you must go unannounced to a grieving home.
Proverb
Cheerful patience is required both for naughty children and your own mind.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Aurbindo Ghosh
To frame rules is a big thing, but equally important is their observance.
Ram Manohar Lohia
To me God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality; God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet HE is above and beyond all these, God is conscience. HE is even the atheism of the atheist. For in HIS boundless love God permits the atheist to live.
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Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going because a straight line even in ECG means we are not alive.
Ratan Tata
The artist is a lover of nature. Therefore he is her slave and her master.
Rabindranath Tagore
Nobody respects an empty pocket.
Proverb
Not every debt can be paid off with money.
Rabindranath Tagore
Every challenge has its own unique problems.
Kiran Bedi
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.
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Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
Gautam Buddha
A game of pleasure ought to be played for pleasure alone.
Mahabharata
God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
He is neither attached to worldliness nor lets senses and anger affect him. In such a person resides God.
Guru Teg Bahadur
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
The Muslims are the flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
When the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Rabindranath Tagore
Most of the men and women today are not free and wise; they are like kites flown by priests and politicians who hold the string.
Lala Har Dayal Mathur
Our emotions are the gestric juices which transform this world of appearance into the more intimate world of sentiments.
Rabindranath Tagore
Awake! Arise! And stop not till the goal is achieved.
Swami Vivekananda
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
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is simply putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Death is not the ultimate reality.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi
I feel that healing doesn't begin after the pain is over. Healing begins when we go throught the pain. Experiecning the pain is part of the healing process as well.
Gaur Gopal Das
The world keeps dying but no one knows how to die.
Kabir
We want deeper sincerity of motive, greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
Sometimes spending time with yourself is the only therapy you need.
Annonymous
Wisdom comes not only from our mistakes but also learning from other's missteps.
Chanakya
To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now.
E F Schumacher
As fire refines gold and makes it brighter, sufferings of penance make the ascetics purer.
Thirukkural
A decision reached by the interaction of several minds is a distilled decision and by far superior to the decision taken by an individual in isolation.
Aditya Birla
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Through tapasya, we can harness the power of the universe and realize our true potential.
Annonymous
Don't limit a child to your own learning for they were born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
The greatest virtue is to bear insult without resentment.
Bhishma Pitamaha
In times of need we even call a donkey king.
Proverb
If we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.
Malala Yousafzai
When men of dignity speak useless words, they lose their greatness and esteem.
Thirukkural
Though good in mind, the wise find a tower of strength in good company.
Thirukkural
We notice it between father and son, between brother and sister, friend and friend. But we have to learn to use that force among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata
A word spoken in wrath is the sharpest sword; covetousness is the deadliest poison; passion is the fiercest fire; ignorance is the darkest night.
Gautam Buddha
Admiration usually follows shapes of surpassing beauty.
Kalidasa
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Paramhansa Yogananda
With all my admiration and love for democracy, I am not prepared to accept the statement that the largest number of people are always right.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
There is but One God. His name is Truth, He is the creator, He fears none, He is without hate. He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realised by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and have ever been True, He is also True now.
Guru Nanak
There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destrcution.
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
I want art and literature that can speak to the humanbeing.
R B Harishchandra
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
You have to dream before dreams can come true.
Apj Abdul Kalam
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.
Narendra Modi
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Covet not, nor envy, but rejoice at the fortunes of other people. Envy and selfishness break off friendship.
Gautam Buddha
Are thy troubles mountain-high? Be brave! And even if they be as Mount Sumeru, Regard them as no more than a particle of dust.
Bhagwan Ram
Don't look over mind's cravings. Rather overlook them.
Amogh Lila Das
Education is not merely a means for earning the living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and practice of virtue.
Vijay Lakshmi Pandit
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
Stolen wealth seems to grow but actually it will result in limitless ruin.
Thirukkural
Too much reverance is the mark of a cheat.
Proverb
I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it. I know too that I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil even at the cost of life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Gautam Buddha
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
Jamshedji Nausherwan Tata
As the great ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt, so my doctrine has only one flavour, the flavour of emancipation.
Gautam Buddha
The fundamental principles of Dharma are eternal and universal. However, their implementation may differ according to time, place and circumstances.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati Roy
Think before you act.
Mahatma Gandhi
Good company makes one blessed, it brings virtues and extripates vices.
Guru Granth Sahib
Everyone needs to work. Even a lion cannot sleep, expecting a deer to enter his mouth.
Hitopadesha
The appearance of a seed is in direct contradiction to its true nature.
Rabindranath Tagore
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Swami Vivekananda
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun…
Mao Zedong
A Nation is a group of persons who live with 'A Goal', 'An Ideal', 'A Mission' and look upon a particular piece of land as the Motherland. If either of the two--The Ideal and The Motherland--is missing, then there is no nation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?
Steve Jobs
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
We must look the world in the face with calm eyes. Even though the eyes of the world are bloodshot today.
Mahatma Gandhi
Men who fear blame will consider even their small fault as a great blunder.
Thirukkural
There is no economy in the world which is a mixed economy. The question is, what kind of mixture?
Amartya Sen
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
The stainless, indivisible Brahman, the pure - the light of all lights, is in the innermost sheath of the golden hue - the highest. That is what the knowers of the Atman know.
Mundokopanishad
The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the World endures for an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.
Akbar The Great
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba
Don't let the world change your smile, use your smile to change the world.
Jay Shetty
Anchors aren't just creating fiction; they're becoming characters in the fiction they themselves create. In the world of TV channels, facts are presented like fiction, so governments aren't inconvenienced; fiction is presented like fact, so governments stay happy.
Ravish Kumar
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.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A loser is one who has 'given up' on his dreams, so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet.
Manmohan Singh
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of real and unreal. In fact it is beyond all relativity.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Kasturba Gandhi

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