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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramhansa Yogananda

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Top 100 Quotes

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking
That which happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow, both are attached to time, to death. Only the present moment, today, speaks of life.
Morari Bapu
To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.
Arun Shourie
Happiness exists in positive thoughts.
Mahatma Gandhi
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Independance can be meaningful only if it becomes instrument for expression of our Culture.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.
B R Ambedkar
You have to treat everyday as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
Anand Mahindra
True happiness is when the love within us finds expression in external activites.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata
If a man reads but one word of love, he becomes learned.
Swami Vivekananda
The stainless, indivisible Brahman, the pure - the light of all lights, is in the innermost sheath of the golden hue - the highest. That is what the knowers of the Atman know.
Mundokopanishad
There is a certain callousness in families like mine. They put up strong barriers so as not to see the misery in the world outside and I rebelled against it.
Baba Amte
The wealth of a generous man is like a herbal tree which serves as medicine that cures without fail.
Thirukkural
The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself.
Jaya Kishori
Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
Fearing the bond of desires is a great virtue as desires have the power to deceive.
Thirukkural
The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the World endures for an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.
Akbar The Great
Don't be afraid to dream big, but remember to work hard to achieve those dreams.
Jaya Kishori
May all roads lead to infinite love.
A R Rehman
Stolen wealth seems to grow but actually it will result in limitless ruin.
Thirukkural
A cup is useful only when it is empty.
J Krishnamurthi
It is useless to blame others. One should blame oneself and not anyone else if something goes wrong.
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Gurar your hard earned knowledge, like skilled healers who safeguards their remedy's recipe.
Chanakya
I know the path. It is sharp and winding. Like the edge of a sword. Yet I find joy in walking upon it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Thiruvalluvar
Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure, and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
All human beings are our brothers and sisters. Working for their welfare is obligatory for Muslims.
Syed Ahmed Khan
A true diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Debt, enmity and murder have to be atoned for. There is no escape.
Sai Baba
The pressure of Muslims for cow slaughter is the limit… I have studied both Quran and Bible. According to both of them, to kill a cow even indirectly is a great sin.
Vinoba Bhave
Indian music is oriented solely to the end of divine communication.
M. S. Subbulakshmi
The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment and abhorrence). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones)
Dada Bhagwan
Retaliation gives only a momentary joy. But forbearance gives everlasting glory.
Thirukkural
When State acquires all powers, both political and economic; the result is a decline of Dharma.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
Ela Bhatt
There is diversity and plurality in life but we have always attempted to discover the unity behind them.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
In the past 1000 years whatever we have assimilated, whether it was forced on us or we took with willingness, cannot be discarded now.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Keep in mind only the thoughts you want to happen, thoughts are seeds and events are their fruits.”
B K Shivani
If there is a fundamental distinction between man and beast, it is the former's progressive recognition of the law and its application in practice to his own personal life. All the saints of the world, ancient and modern, were each according to His light and capacity a living illustration of that supreme Law of our Being.
Mahatma Gandhi
Men of righteous conduct (aacharan) never utter evil words even by a slip of the tongue.
Thirukkural
The lazy cannot achieve great gains even if they enjoy royal benefits.
Thirukkural
Knowledge in the head is just data which leads to pride. Knowledge, when it comes to action, becomes realization which leads to humbleness.
Amogh Lila Das
I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
Sai Baba
Empathy is the most essential quality a human being should possess. It helps us understand others share their pain, and offer support.
Sudha Murthy
As soon as you confess your sins, HE lets not a particle of it remain.
Tuka Ram
Beneath all diversities, lies only one unity in which the lover and the beloved both lose their individuality. And only love exists.
Swami Ramtirth
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
Unless you are constantly striving to be inclusive in every possible way, you will not explore the full depth and dimension of what you are capable of.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Leaders don't look behind or to the side. Instead they look ahead.
Anand Mahindra
Jesus has given the defintion of an ideal religion in the verses of the Bible. The 'Sermon on the Mount' inlcudes all those sacred spiritual rites and the prayer to the God contains all that is also conveyed through the few words of Gayatri Mantra.
Mahatma Gandhi
What do I want to achieve? What am I striving for? What has been my goal for the last 30 years? In one word, I can say - Self-Realization!
Mahatma Gandhi
If God dwells only in the mosque, then to whom belongeth the rest of the country?
Kabir
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Einstein
The poor are no less rational than anyone else—quite the contrary. Precisely because they have so little, we often find them putting much careful thought into their choices:They have to be sophisticated economists just to survive.
Abhijit Banerjee
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
Simone De Beauvoir
Sometimes spending time with yourself is the only therapy you need.
Annonymous
If some of you see the villages, you will not be fascinated by the sight. You will have to scratch below the dung heap. I do not say that they ever were heavenly places. Today they are really dung-heaps. They were not like that before. What I say is not from history but from what I have seen myself. I have travelled from one end of India to the other and have seen the miserable specimen of humanity with lustreless eyes. They are India. In these humble cottages, in the midst of these dung-heaps, are to be found the humble Bhangis in whom you find the concentrated essence of wisdom.
Mahatma Gandhi
We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.
Sonam Wangchuk
Discipline is the code of conduct of decent living.
Sam Maenkshaw
If you react, you are wasting and depleting your energy, you are reducing your emotional strength. When you encounter next situaition, you'll be weaker than before.
B K Shivani
Some things come with their own punishments.
Arundhati Roy
Science is acquaintance, not knowledge. It can never be absolute.
Osho Rajneesh
A man become good by good deeds, and bad by bad deeds.
Brihadaranyaka Upnishad
I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it. I know too that I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil even at the cost of life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
The language of our democracy should be such that the weakest in our society should feel safe.
Ravish Kumar
There is no resting place for a nation or a people on their onward march.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Our governance is by a gerontocracy. This cataract of history can only be removed by youth. In this common man's century, only the common man can change the profile of this country.
Baba Amte
The fundamental characteristic of Bhartiya Culture is that it looks upon life as an integrated whole.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
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.
Ravish Kumar
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.
Hazrat Muhammad
God befriends the man who climbs determination's heights.
Panchtantra
You always have a choice; you either look into the rear view mirror, or look ahead through the windshield.
Harish Manwani
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
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Kailash Satyarthi
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping that it'll kill your enemy.
Nelson Mandela
Admiration usually follows shapes of surpassing beauty.
Kalidasa
God tries His votaries through and through, but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal He prescribes for them.
Mahatma Gandhi
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Friedrich Engels
An extremist or terrorist who is ready to kill resources is thereby offering to sacrifice his own life for the cause. Hence a potential extremist is an appropriate recruit for social action at a higher moral level - namely non-violent satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
A person who conquers his own self is greater than the one who conquers thousands in battle.
Mahavira
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
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
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
G B Shaw
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
God's great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
Rabindranath Tagore
There is no harm if we possess the things of the world. But if would be a tragedy if things of the world possess us.
Swami Chinmayananda
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
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Life is there to ride, cherish those moments where life stands still.
Annonymous
A lot of times we hear that nothing good can happen in government schools. The reason nothing can happen is that the children of those who have a voice do not study in them.
Sonam Wangchuk
Humility in speech cannot be attained by men who never listen to the discourse of the wise.
Thirukkural
Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
Ela Bhatt
 When you are enthusiastic, the mountain also looks like a clay pile.
Chhatarapati Shivaji

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