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Bhakti is love - loving God, loving your own self, and loving all beings. The small heart should become bigger and bigger, and eventually totally expansive. A spark can create a forest fire.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi

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When the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
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Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.
C Rajagopalachari
My life is my message.
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Silence helps one to suppress one's anger as perhaps nothing else does.
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Fire and straw cannot agree.
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Anand Mahindra
Religion can be realised. Are you ready? Do you want it? You will get the realisation if you do, and then you will be truly religious. Until you have attained realisation there is no difference between you and atheists. The atheists are sincere, but the man who says that he believes in religion and never attempts to realise it is not sincere.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Osho Rajneesh
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A contented mind is a continual feast.
Proverb
Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
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Steve Jobs
One should use one act to achieve another, just as a trained elephant is used to capture another elephant.
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Much like the aroma of the flower carried by the wind, a person's goodness touches all directions.
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Mundokopanishad
Where Love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Malala Yousafzai
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Thirukkural
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Dr S Radhakrishnan
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Sonam Wangchuk
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Old age comes with the passage of time. Maturity comes with deep reflection.
Swami Chinmayananda
Tapasya is the key to unlocking our spiritual potential and living a life of purpose and meaning.
Annonymous
Nation First. Then your Guru, your Parents and finally your God! So, the nation should always come before yourselves.
Chhatarapati Shivaji
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
Its not the side of the bigger army that wins. It’s the country that tells a better story, that wins.
Shashi Tharoor
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Swami Vivekananda
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He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isha Upanishad
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Annonymous
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Defeat defeat before defeat defeats you.
Swami Vivekananda
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Kaivalya Upanishad
Opposition in life is like a shadow. There's no shadow when you are lying on the ground. It appears the moment you stand up. When you are with the light, the shadow is behind you. If you are fighting shadows, you've turned away from light. Wake up and walk; your path is already lit.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Dadabhai Naoroji
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Thirukkural
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Aurbindo Ghosh
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The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
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To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
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Shashi Tharoor
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Simone De Beauvoir
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Steve Jobs
You can scare away a hundred crows with just one stone.
Proverb
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Dr Zakir Hussain
Give me blood, I will give you freedom. 
Subhash Chandra Bose
Useful, courteous, and pleasant words (Vani) bring happiness and prosperity.
Thirukkural
Keep in mind only the thoughts you want to happen, thoughts are seeds and events are their fruits.”
B K Shivani
The most important guru mantra is to never reveal your secrets to anyone. It will destroy you.
Chanakya
If I die in this struggle for freedom, I am sure I will be born again and again in this great country. I shall live for my country, dream for her freedom and try with all my strength to fulfil the dreams.
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
Your thoughts and emotions are drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
A man of learning and self-control (sanyam) who is free from anger will be blessed by the god of virtue.
Thirukkural
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
Mahesh Yogi
Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Small things grow mighty if they are skillfully combined. Blades of grass will make a rope to bind a raging elephant.
Hitopadesha
True charity never seeks returns; to rain cloud what return can men make?
Thiruvalluvar
...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
Arundhati Roy
Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Resign thyself to His will, review thy past actions and follow the path of duty.
Isha Upanishad
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than centrifugal.
Mahatma Gandhi
To refrain from hurting anyone wilfully in any manner at any time even in thought is the chief virtue.
Thirukkural
A wise man with a determined mind will conquer even a flood of troubles.
Thirukkural
Too much reverance is the mark of a cheat.
Proverb
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the Sun fails.
Romain Rolland
It is a man making education all round: that is what we want.
Swami Vivekananda
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interest. This is bitter truth.
Chanakya
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto Von Bismarck
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
He who shows himself what he is not, he wears two dresses of deceitfulness.
Hadis
God is a very hard taskmaster. He is never satisfied with fireworks display. His mills although they grind surely and incessantly grind excruciatingly slow and He is never satisfied with hasty forfeitures of life. It is a sacrifice of the purest that He demands, and so you and I have prayerfully to plod on, live out the life so long as it is vouchsafed to us to live it.
Mahatma Gandhi
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversation.
Glenn Close
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and distinctions of big mansions.
Raja Ram Mohan Rai
Follow the path of love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Think before you act.
Mahatma Gandhi

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