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The Self is attained through veracity, concentration, wisdom and continence; cultivate all of them constantly. When impurities thus dwindle, the ascetic beholds Him - stainless, resplendent - within his very body.
Mundokopanishad

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John F Kennedy
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C Rajagopalachari
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J Krishnamurthi
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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?
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Dr C V Raman
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If you are broken, you don't have to stay broken.
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Adversity can be overcome by taking it lightly. So smiling is the easy way to overcome it.
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Remember that the greatest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.
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Compassion is the greatest wealth. Even the worst of men possesses worldly wealth.
Thirukkural
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Ivan Illich
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy of honor.
Samrat Ashoka
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Swami Vivekananda
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Kathopnishad
Aim high and aspire to reach the highest.
Zarathushtra
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Morari Bapu
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
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Hitopadesha
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Plato
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J Krishnamurthi
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Morari Bapu
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira
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Mahashweta Devi
Time is not measured by passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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B R Ambedkar
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Sai Baba
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Baba Amte
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M S Swaminathan
Want Love, Accept yourself. Need Respect, Value yourself. 
B K Shivani
Every tiny molecule of ash is in motion with my heat. I am such a lunatic that I am free even in jail.
Bhagat Singh
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Annonymous
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Madan Mohan Malviya
An artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
Ananda K Coomaraswamy
Think before you act.
Mahatma Gandhi
I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.
Sonam Wangchuk
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Mahatma Gandhi
You'll feel better about yourself if you give up judging yourself and start loving yourself.
B K Shivani
The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.
Hazrat Muhammad
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
B R Ambedkar
The real worth of a person becomes apparent not during conditions of plenty but during privation.
Ramayana
My thoughts create happiness & health. My body is perfect and healthy.
B K Shivani
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba
And is this Power benevolent or malevolent? I see it is purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love, He is the Supreme Good.
Mahatma Gandhi
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
Ved Vyas
You go into the battle with your strength.
Anand Mahindra
Earlier organizations made individuals, today individuals make an organization.
Rahul Bajaj
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Mahatma Gandhi
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Friedrich Engels
Dharma or religion which instills fear, that I do not consider that to be dharma; Religion is one which gives fearlessness.
Morari Bapu
Diverse people with diverse shortcomings can work together if they have common higher ideals. Just like gems of different shapes and colors are strung together through the thread.
Amogh Lila Das
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
You should not call in a cat to settle the argument of two birds.
Proverb
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
Anil Ambani
The world keeps dying but no one knows how to die.
Kabir
Worry doesn't make anything, but hard work.
Rahul Bajaj
The gain of democracy is the security of the individual's life, liberty and goods from the caprices of the tyrant one or the selfish one, its evil in the decline of greatness in humanity.
Aurbindo Ghosh
Those who want to be free from sufferings will not do wrong sincle all wrongs recoil on wrong doers.
Thirukkural
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without spiritual life.
Gautam Buddha
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.
Amartya Sen
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
Mother Teresa
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
After taking a well-considered decision it is extremely harmful to delay the action.
Thirukkural
I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
Ela Bhatt
Birth is parents' gift. Education is Teachers' gift. Job is company's gift. Wife is life's gift. But friends are God's gift.
Annonymous
Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction.
Narendra Modi

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