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What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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Mahatma Gandhi
What the country needs most at the present moment is a spirit of self-sacrifice on the part of our educated young men, and they may take it from me that they cannot spend their lives in a better cause than raising the moral and intellectual level of their unhappy low castes and promoting their well-being.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
The practice of tapasya requires us to face our fears and transcend them.
Annonymous
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and He tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, He comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that He is always at your beck and call, but on His terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, He has forsaken me.
Mahatma Gandhi
Intellectual beauty is indeed, the highest kind of beauty.
Dr C V Raman
Don't be a candle that needs a flame to burn, be a Sun that burns on its own.
Rumi
For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.
Dhirubhai Ambani
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
He who sees Him in all and all in Him, hates none. He who feels for others as he feels for himself, loves all.
Isha Upanishad

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