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God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati

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Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
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Mundokopanishad
We are not going to be free but free already.
Swami Vivekananda
Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.
C Rajagopalachari
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I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln
Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it which is not found in any religion.
B R Ambedkar
Devotion alone can save a person, needing no help of any other means.
Madhavadeva
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.
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Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of the body.
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Nobody respects an empty pocket.
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There is a degree of freedom that creates apirations.
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For the cinema it's much better to be more concentrated in time. It's an instinctive feeling: I can't put it into words why I feel like that. The film's better if the period is a day or a week or fortnight or a month, so that nobody grows up: everybody's as they were in the beginning.
Satyajit Ray
Blessed that I am born to this land, and that I have the luck to love her.
Rabindranath Tagore
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B R Ambedkar
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
National character cannot be built on the shaky foundations of untruth, hypocrisy, ostentatious and conspicuous consumption.
Ram Manohar Lohia
If you give me rice, I will eat today. If you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat everyday.
Mahatma Gandhi
Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
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If love was not the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death. Life is a perpetual triumph over the grave.
Mahatma Gandhi
What is dangerous is not making mistakes, but to be so enamored of one’s point of view that one does not let facts get in the way. To make progress, we have to constantly go back to the facts, acknowledge our errors, and move.
Abhijit Banerjee
One must consider resources, ways, time, place and nature of the deed before carrying out an act.
Thirukkural
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.
Osho Rajneesh
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realise that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
Mahatma Gandhi
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously, in whatever state we utter His name, we acquire the merit of such utterance. A man who voluntarily goes into a river and bathes therein gets the benefit of the bath; so does likewise he who has been pushed into the river by another, or who while sleeping soundly has water thrown upon him by another.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Aristotle
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Chanakya
Indian music is oriented solely to the end of divine communication.
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Annonymous
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Annonymous
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Ela Bhatt
Everyone experiences tough times. It is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you come through them.
Lakshmi Mittal
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Chanakya
Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.
Sonam Wangchuk
They can kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they cannot crush my spirit.
Bhagat Singh
Strong women do not have 'attitude', we have standards.
Marilyn Monroe
I know only one alternative to hard, unrelenting work. It is yet more work.
Pupul Jaykar
Divine wisdom leads to uncluttered thoughts within, which further leads to uncluttered actions.
Amogh Lila Das
The path of tapasya is the path of spiritual growth and self-realization.
Annonymous
Every step I take in the light is mine forever.
Swami Vivekananda
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Friedrich Engels
The small wisdom is like water in a glass - clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in a sea - dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
I have never been frightened of anything. Because I fought British tommies to save the honor of an Indian lady, Gandhiji called me abhay sadhak, a fearless seeker of truth. When the sweepers of Warora challenged me to clean gutters, I did so. But that same person who fought goondas and British bandits quivered in fright when he saw the living corpse of Tulshiram, no fingers, no clothes, with maggots all over. That is why I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.
Baba Amte
Life is a beautiful mystery. Just live it. Trying to understand mystry is confusing, when we live the mystery of life so totally, joy dawns.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Its not the side of the bigger army that wins. It’s the country that tells a better story, that wins.
Shashi Tharoor
Struggle is the law of progress.
Lala Lajpat Rai
Happiness exists in positive thoughts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
You go into the battle with your strength.
Anand Mahindra
The deer has enemies because of its flesh.
Proverb
Dislodging a green nut from its shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
There can be no worship without good actions.
Guru Nanak
There is but One God. His name is Truth, He is the creator, He fears none, He is without hate. He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realised by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and have ever been True, He is also True now.
Guru Nanak
Like the silkworm, you have built a cocoon around yourself. Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul.
Swami Vivekananda
...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
To frame rules is a big thing, but equally important is their observance.
Ram Manohar Lohia
Let us not equate love with expectations.
B K Shivani
Depth of friendship doesn not depend upon length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
Give up your head, but forsake not those whom you have undertaken to protect. Sacrifice your life, but relinquish not your faith.
Guru Teg Bahadur
Discipline (anushasan) is a sign of noble birth. Indiscipline indicates mean birth.
Thirukkural
If only we concentrate on discharging our immediate duty and apply ourselves with unswerving faith and devotion to the task of today, we shall have no difficulty in knowing what our duties will be tomorrow.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
If one knows that meat is only a sore of an animal, one will refrain from eating it.
Thirukkural
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 ocean is the goal of all streams and of the rains from the clouds, yet it is never overflowing and never emptied; so the Dharma is embraced by many millions of people yet it neither increases nor decreases.
Gautam Buddha
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
Best way to deal with agitation is absorption in opposite direction.
Amogh Lila Das
It is disgrace for all those on earth if they fail to leave behind fame.
Thirukkural
Women and gold keep men immersed in worldliness. The woman is disarmed when you view her as the manifestation of the Divine Mother.
Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Any action that takes us higher is a good action and is our duty.
R K Murti
Everyday is a new opportunity to make a positive change in your life.
Jaya Kishori
Those who cannot live in harmony with the world are fools though they are learned.
Thirukkural
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
Wealth may come today and be gone tomorrow, but good character will last our whole life.
Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Admiration usually follows shapes of surpassing beauty.
Kalidasa
Living among beast of prey, one should have to arm oneself. Getting oneself to be clawed to death by them is not acting angelic but being a fool.
Premchand
Conflict is not a sign of culture of Nature rather it is a symptom of their degradation.
Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Too much honesty is not a good thing. Honest people get screwed first and straight trees are cut first.
Chanakya
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
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.
Abhijit Banerjee
Give to the poor with a glad heart, just as the tree offers leaves, flowers, shade, fruits, and roots without difference. This is genuine altruism.
Gyaneshwar
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant
Every challenge has its own unique problems.
Kiran Bedi
Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?
Arun Shourie
I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
Sonam Wangchuk
I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with god. I am therefore, humble enough to recognize evil as such; and I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
The practice of tapasya requires us to let go of our attachment to material possessions and embrace simplicity.
Annonymous
Creation is the image of the creator.
Rig Veda
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.
B R Ambedkar
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
Democracy cannot be made secure and strong without peace. Peace and democracy are the two sides of a coin. Neither of them can survive without the other.
Jai Prakash Narayan
I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsi but above all an Indian first.
Dadabhai Naoroji
The practice of tapasya requires us to face our fears and transcend them.
Annonymous
We notice it between father and son, between brother and sister, friend and friend. But we have to learn to use that force among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi
If I have to serve the country, I will have to live my life with patience and sobriety.
Mahatma Gandhi

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