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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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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

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We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people's opinions.
C Rajagopalachari
Love must conquer hate, because hate can't conquer itself.
Swami Vivekananda
I am not as simple as I look.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
If you see the soul in every human being, you see truly. If you see immortality in the heart of every mortal being, you see truly.
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Life is there to ride, cherish those moments where life stands still.
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We don't get a chance to do that many things and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief and then you die, you know? We have all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
Steve Jobs
Our motivation is to help people out of poverty, not to be leading technology company.
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A person who conquers his own self is greater than the one who conquers thousands in battle.
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Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision is merely a passing time; but vision and action together can change the world.
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No man on earth has envy raised to fame, While want of it has driven none to shame. The heart that givesn in to envy's sway, to virtuous life will fail to lead the way.
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Its not the side of the bigger army that wins. It’s the country that tells a better story, that wins.
Shashi Tharoor
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
You can count the number of fruits produced by a tree, but not the number of trees produced by its fruit.
Proverb
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
Anger destroys not only one who gets angry but also one's relations who help them in times of danger.
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We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
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A person who is trying to copy others will be a successful person for a while, but he won't be able to succeed further in life.
Ratan Tata
To attain inner peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
A ship is safest at the harbour but it is not where it is supposed to be.
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Rules for happiness…something to do, something to love, something to hope for.
Immamuel Kant
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Friedrich Engels
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.
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As fire refines gold and makes it brighter, sufferings of penance make the ascetics purer.
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Civility is a beauty of behaviour.
Rabindranath Tagore
Our attitude can be expressed in three ways: through words, through tears and through laughter.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Don't be dead serious about your life - it's just a play.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Save the spiritual store in your body by observing continence.
Swami Vivekananda
To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.
Tipu Sultan
Incarceration in my country is better than freedom abroad.
Subhash Chandra Bose
Spirituality is neither a privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man.
Swami Chinmayananda
There has no doubt to do fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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
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Annonymous
If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Never expect anything less than what you are entitled to. It's self-respect, not pride.
Chanakya
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
John Ruskin
When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
Baba Amte
That mind which is attracted to more than one being can never reach the goal.
Swami Trigunatitananda
Only if you are a buffalo you can eat even on a full stomach.
Proverb
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life, making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
Mahavira
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
Don’t be worried about what the world thinks, do what is right and just in the eyes of the Lord.
Guru Govind Singh
Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.
Mahavira
Even a squirrel can provide the help that he is capable of.
Proverb
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
When the child begins to pick up the alphabet, he should be initiated into the science of the soul.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard Feynman
We should know both the revealed and the unrevealed God.
Upanishad
The broad aim of education is to help man to become a thinking being.
Lala Lajpat Rai
I believe in metrics rather than rhetoric. Articulation is not accomplishment.
Narayan Murthy
Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
To understand the currents of a river, he who wishes to know the truth must enter the water.
Nisargadatta
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
Air rushes into where there is vacuum. Absolute rushes into where there is no ego.
Swami Sivananda
When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramhansa Yogananda
God's great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
Rabindranath Tagore
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
Paramhansa Yogananda
We are here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?
Steve Jobs
To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play your identifications, don't let them rule you.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
There is noone in the world who is not blamed.
Gautam Buddha
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
Amartya Sen
The dawn is the dream of God's creative fancy.
Rig Veda
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
Mother Teresa
They can kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they cannot crush my spirit.
Bhagat Singh
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya
Struggle for justice builds your character; unity brings forth our strength. Our tolerance and sacrifice is also tested. Always remember, your future is to some extent in your own hands.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Empowering women is key to building a future we want.
Amartya Sen
Pray to him anyway you like. He can hear footfall of an ant.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Your thoughts and emotions are drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Jean-jacques Rousseau
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
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not, amidst blame and praise.
Dhammapada
Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati Roy
And did the thought never come to you that you are also subject to decay, that you also cannot escape it?
Gautam Buddha
A successful leader maintains a balance by listerning to the head as well as the heart.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A good leader is a good communicator.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Great minds discuss ideas. Medium minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Swami Chinmayananda
He who receives guests (atithi) one after another will be an honoured guest in heaven.
Thirukkural
Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood.
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Genius does not argue, it creates.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let your thoughts, words and actions align with the highest ideals you hold.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
The ego is like a very powerful elephant which cannot be brought under control by any less powerful than a lion, which in this instance, is no other than the Guru, whose very look makes the elephant-like ego tremble and die.
Raman Maharshi
Those who are pure in mind, striving through the path of renunciation (tyaga), come to ascertain clearly the deeper imports of the knowledge, which is the theme of Upanishads (Vedanta); they in the end, gain the world of Brahma, and liberating themselves from everything gain the highest immortality.
Kaivalya Upanishad
I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
Noam Chomsky
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end in itself.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
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
Civilization should be the expression of man's dharma in his corporate life.
Rabindranath Tagore
At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devote finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
How beautiful is humble courtesy!
Rabindranath Tagore
Cheerful patience is required both for naughty children and your own mind.
Gautam Buddha
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
Mother Teresa

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