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Take the village people and slum-dwellers in your hands and give them the benefit of your knowledge, skill, insight, constructive work and patriotic spirit. Give the people this true education through the example of your own lives. Let all your activities be directed to the welfare of the people. If that is not done and if the people lose patience, our plight will be much worse than the present slavery. Before the people take to the path of destruction, see that they are given constructive, life-giving training.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Start with the thought – I can create any habit. That’s the simplest thing to do.
B K Shivani
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.
Kiran Bedi
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
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The real worth of a person becomes apparent not during conditions of plenty but during privation.
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The mind is like a bird; if you hold it too tightly, it will suffocate.
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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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Your experiece of life is proportional to your emotional state... Mind can make hell out of heaven or heaven out of hell.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
G B Shaw
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
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
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Gautam Buddha
Noble manliness of not eyeing another's wife is a virtue and also a discipline of the great.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Einstein
The same loot, same corruption, same rowdyism still exists.
Anna Hazare
Everyone needs to work. Even a lion cannot sleep, expecting a deer to enter his mouth.
Hitopadesha
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramhansa Yogananda
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
A cup is useful only when it is empty.
J Krishnamurthi
I have always believed and still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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.
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An impartial (Nishpaksh) man's wealth is an imperishable security to his future generations.
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I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
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To perceive the truth is wisdom, whatever be the matter and whosoever utters it.
Thirukkural
I never had money. But that had never stopped me.
Baba Amte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its reason for existence.
Einstein
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Swami Dayanand Saraswati
World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.
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He who desires happiness should be thoroughly contented, for contentment is the real happiness and desire brings woe.
Manu
Serve others with kindness and love and the Lord will reward you with His grace.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi
I want art and literature that can speak to the humanbeing.
R B Harishchandra
Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish
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Untouchability has ruined the Untouchables, the Hindus and ultimately the nation as well.
B R Ambedkar
Discipline and United Action are the real sources of strength for the nation.
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Annonymous
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Ratan Tata
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Mahatma Gandhi
You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.
Aruna Roy
No one can attain perfection while he is in the body for the simple reason that the ideal state is impossible so long as one has not completely overcome his ego, and ego cannot be wholly got rid of so long as one is tied down by the shackles of the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Aristotle
Too much honesty is not a good thing. Honest people get screwed first and straight trees are cut first.
Chanakya
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If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
Mahatma Gandhi
Negative energies cannot touch you if you are in a state of meditation.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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M S Swaminathan
Who ignores not weak foe, with intellect waits for his opportunity, who displays in season ability, with the stronger desires no hostility; grieves not in calamity, applying all senses, patiently bearing misery, is wise - foremost of persons and all his foes but vanquished to be.
Vidur
You must set yourself buried in God. Then only shall you live. You gain by losing. You live by dying.
Swami Sivananda
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
Rumi
The glory of benevolence depends on the excellence of perseverance.
Thirukkural
The true and meaningful life in the world belongs to the one who does good even to the one who does wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
The work that you do is to be performed with a right attitude.
Swami Sardananda
The flute is sweet, the lute is sweet, say those who never heard the pretty prattle of their own children.
Thiruvalluvar
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.
Arvind Adiga
Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.
Kiran Bedi
God helps when one feels oneself humbler than the very dust under one’s feet. Only to the weak and helpless is divine succor vouchsafed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
The resolute will never allow grief to overcome them but will make even grief itself grieve.
Thirukkural
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Courtesy is the most precious of jewels. The beauty that is not perfected by courtesy is like a garden without a flower.
Buddhacharita
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Kailash Satyarthi
The progress of civilization depends not only on intellectual creativeness but also on the moral qualities of gentleness and compassion.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is as good or bad as he imagines.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
We have not produced brands as far as education is concerned in India.
Rahul Bajaj
Blessed that I am born to this land, and that I have the luck to love her.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let no despondency enter into your heart; despair is the greatest enemy of progress in one's path.
Annonymous
Discipline is the code of conduct of decent living.
Sam Maenkshaw
Even a good deed may go wrong when it is not done befitting the nature and disposition of men.
Thirukkural
One should understand a brahman who merely reads much, to be a man of many words. Know him only to be true Brahman who swerves not from the truth.
Sanatsugatia
 When you are enthusiastic, the mountain also looks like a clay pile.
Chhatarapati Shivaji
One life is not more important than another; every life and every species is important to maintain ecological balance and coherent evolutionary process. Conscious human activity is the only way; give it a chance.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
To explain God merely after reading the scriptures is explaining to a person the city of Banaras after seeing it only on a map.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.
Sonam Wangchuk
Look upon hardships with eagerness. They should not bring tears to the eye. Look upon them as ordained to serve you, to chasten you through trials and tribulations, and finally leave you stronger, healthier, wiser than before.
Mahabharata
There is real greatness in undergoing hardships for the sake of what you regard as your duty.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
In a journey from birth to death, we have to accomplish the journey from mortality to immortality.
Amogh Lila Das
If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?
Steve Jobs
See life as an adventourous game and play the game without worrying about the outcome.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don't let the world change your smile, use your smile to change the world.
Jay Shetty
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.
Dwayne Johnson
Clasping Kunti's hands in her thin, old, ivory-hued fingers, Gandhari whispered, Calm down, calm down, O Mother of the Pandavas! Calm down. Time moves in cycles, circling like the wheels of the chariot. Our life cycle is shrinking. Soon it will be just a dot. And finally even that dot will merge into the void.
Mahashweta Devi
He who receives guests (atithi) one after another will be an honoured guest in heaven.
Thirukkural
A good leader is truthful, equanimous, transparent, farsighted and has a pleasant personality.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A man is universe in miniature - and the universe, a giant living body.
Kabir
God is not outside this earthly case of ours. Therefore, exterior proof is not of much avail, if any at all. We must over fail to perceive Him through the senses, because He is beyond them. We can feel Him, if we will but withdraw ourselves from the senses. The divine music is incessantly going on within ourselves, but the loud senses drown the delicate music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive or hear with our senses.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Democracy is not merely a form of government, it is a way of life, an act of faith in the dignity and freedom of the individual.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Follow the path of love.
Mahatma Gandhi

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