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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

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Education is an all round drawing out of the best in the child and man: body, mind and spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is disgrace for all those on earth if they fail to leave behind fame.
Thirukkural
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
He who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isha Upanishad
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
The human body is the greatest temple of God.
Swami Brahmananda
Gurar your hard earned knowledge, like skilled healers who safeguards their remedy's recipe.
Chanakya
Do not be satisfied with stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
Paramhansa Yogananda
I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
Ela Bhatt
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
The true Indian civilization is in the Indian villages. The modern city civilization you find in Europe and America, and in a handful of our cities which are copies of the Western cities and which were built for the foreigner, and by him. But they cannot last. It is only the handicraft civilization that will endure and stand the test of time. But it can do so only if we can correlate the intellect with the hand.
Mahatma Gandhi
I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.
Malala Yousafzai
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Arundhati Roy
Brevity speaks. It forces you to convey complex thoughts.
Anand Mahindra
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and therefore there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
Mahatma Gandhi
The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversation.
Glenn Close
To kill or to eat what another has killed is to rejoice in cruelty.
J P Vaswani
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
Although devotion is to be given to many institutes and teachers, the essence is to be taken from them all, as the bee takes the essence from many flowers.
Swami Vivekananda
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Gautam Buddha
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma Gandhi
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
They cannot make history who forget history.
B R Ambedkar
You have now to make the character of Mahavira (Hanuman) your ideal. See how at the command of Ramachandra he crossed the ocean. He had no care for life or death! He was a perfect master of his senses and wonderfully sagacious. You have now to build your life on this great ideal of personal service. Through that, all other ideals will gradually manifest in life. Obedience to the Guru without questioning, and strict observance of Brahmacharya — this is the secret of success.
Swami Vivekananda
Strong women do not have 'attitude', we have standards.
Marilyn Monroe
Bhakti yoga isn't something you join. It means love, falling in love.
Krishna Das
Heaven as fire is His head; sun and moon are His eyes; four quarters or directions are His ears; the Vedas that are expressed are His speech; the air is His breath; the universe is His mind; the earth has come from His feet. He is indeed the inner Self of all beings.
Mundokopanishad
He who serves cheefully attains cheerfulness.
Tattiriya Upanishad
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Freedom can exist only when there is equality in all walks of life. Without equality, to talk about freedom is to deny freedom to many in the interest of a few.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Living with devotion to and with thoughts of the scriptures and of God is punya.
Morari Bapu
Take care of what you think, because you are listening.
B K Shivani
Live life a little dangerously.
Jrd Tata
Joy is never tomorrow. It is always now.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is alright if you have no idea of the past. What is dangerous is, if you have a wrong idea of the past.
Irfan Habib
The true purpose of tapasya is to purify our thoughts and emotions and to connect with our innermost self.
Annonymous
Just like tiger's milk can be held in golden pot, similarly only a golden mind can contain focus.
Amogh Lila Das
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
The new man will not be a Christian or a Hindu, a Mohammdean or a Buddhist. He will simply be religious.
Osho Rajneesh
Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people
B R Ambedkar
Those with untiring and unfailing efforts will conquer even the unyielding fate.
Thirukkural
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-paul Sartre
We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.
Abhijit Banerjee
Through tapasya, we can overcome our ego and connect with the divine within us.
Annonymous
Self-praise is no recommendation.
Proverb
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Friedrich Engels
A flower blooms in quietude; man’s inner self also blossoms in solitude. Each one of us should find our own space and solitude.
Morari Bapu
People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
Ratan Tata
In times of need we even call a donkey king.
Proverb
Sunlight is neither yours nor mine.
J Krishnamurthi
We had taken pride in resisting Things-British while They (Britishers) ruled us, but strangely enough, now that the Britishers have left, Westernisation has become synonymous with Progress.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
On seeing the cold look of the host, the face of the guests (atithi) withers like the anicham (a delicate sensitive flower) that withers when smelt.
Thirukkural
One should not utter displeasing words that arouse ill feelings in others. One should not indulge in speech conducive to the evil.
Mahavira
We want deeper sincerity of motive, greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in the course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set you sail to catch that breeze.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
As fire refines gold and makes it brighter, sufferings of penance make the ascetics purer.
Thirukkural
A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The earth bearing the burden of men without fame loses its ferility and yields less.
Thirukkural
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Sai Baba
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Even a good deed may go wrong when it is not done befitting the nature and disposition of men.
Thirukkural
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody is nobody's friend, nobody is nobody's wellwisher. Persons become friends or enemies only form motive of interest.
Bhishma Pitamaha
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
Don't be afraid to dream big, but remember to work hard to achieve those dreams.
Jaya Kishori
Destiny is the greatest power which will overcome all human efforts.
Thirukkural
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
The world belongs to those who let go.
Lao Tzu
There will be a backlash from those who don't benefit from the system.
Rahul Bajaj
We cannot afford to be divided or else in the future, there may emerge one society of Hindus and a different of some other religion. As we stand on a common platform - we have all agreed to bury our social and religious differences.
Surendranath Banerjee
As a boat on the water can be swept away off course by a strong wind, so the intelligence may be carried away by any of the roaming senses on which the mind alights.
Bhagvad Gita
Education imparted by heart can bring revolution in the society.
Maulana Azad
The end is the beginning of all things. Supprssed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure.
J Krishnamurthi
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Jean-jacques Rousseau
I believe that schools of today with all their answers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, above everything else, take us back to the industrial revolution in time, when people thought that nature could be conquered and consumption or production could be unlimited.
Sonam Wangchuk
The whole world is poor, no one is rich. Only the one who has the wealth of God's name is rich.
Kabir
Better a thousand enemies than an unfaithful friend.
Proverb
There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destrcution.
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
All the knowledge in the world is no good if it deserts a person in the hour of need.
Ramayana
To rule wisely, the leader must take care to listen to all, scoff at none, ignore none.
Ramayana
I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.
Ravish Kumar
If we can love the goodness of the world, then we are loving God.
Surdas
Life is there to ride, cherish those moments where life stands still.
Annonymous
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma Gandhi
Creation is the image of the creator.
Rig Veda
Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.
M S Swaminathan
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the whole community.
Savitribai Phule
Time is not measured by passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Expect the best, prepare for the worst.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramhansa Yogananda

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