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India has a rich tradition of wisdome which lits our day lifts our spirits. However, our digital space is devoid of this treasure trove. Is it not an irony that a country that has abundant digital resources can not bring its own intellectual and spiritual wealth on one digital platform?
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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

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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Einstein
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Pundit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
To understand the currents of a river, he who wishes to know the truth must enter the water.
Nisargadatta
There is noone in the world who is not blamed.
Gautam Buddha
The image of that dying leprosy patient was burning me like a branding iron and would not give me a moment’s rest. From that moment on I was out to conquer fear…. Where there is fear there is no love. Where there is no love there is no God.
Baba Amte
Opportunism has shaken the confidence of People in Poltics.
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Faith is not something to grasp. It is a state to grow into.
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Wise men who have clear mind will refrain from eating the flesh of a lifeless animal.
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Scientists tell us that without the presence of the cohesive force amongst the atoms that comprise this globe of ours, it would crumble to pieces and we would cease to exist; and even as there is cohesive force in blind matter, so must there be in all things animate and the name for that cohesive force among animate beings is Love.
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If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
Arundhati Roy
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
A man must not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
Swami Vivekananda
Covet not, nor envy, but rejoice at the fortunes of other people. Envy and selfishness break off friendship.
Gautam Buddha
Mode of completion, obstacles and profit should be measured well before venturing into an action.
Thirukkural
Those that have devotion towards Me will get knowledge and renunciation and they will attain liberation from the round of births and deaths.
Ramayana
A ripened fallen fruit cannot re-attach to the branch.
Kabir
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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
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
The greatest danger to character comes from greed and by money, wasteful expenditure and the social prestige that is falsely associated with it.
Ram Manohar Lohia
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.
Aruna Roy
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Swami Vivekananda
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
Friedrich Engels
Even a good deed may go wrong when it is not done befitting the nature and disposition of men.
Thirukkural
The path to success is often paved with hard work and determination.
Jaya Kishori
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
Life becomes a game when you learn to play it with the spirit of sport. Enjoy the whole journey from beginning to end.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers… but it comes when you are ready to face off the question.
Annonymous
To attain inner peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
You may go with a fanfare to a happy home, but you must go unannounced to a grieving home.
Proverb
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
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Kiran Bedi
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Aurbindo Ghosh
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Aurbindo Ghosh
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
The old need the young so that they renew their contact with life.
Indira Gandhi
With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion. I am a farmer of the heart.
Rumi
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Mahashweta Devi
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Richard Feynman
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include freedom to make mistakes.
Bhagat Singh
Reading a book gives us the habit of solitary reflection and enjoyment.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
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Amartya Sen
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Jawahar Lal Nehru
For when confessed, the sin becomes less, since it becomes the truth.
Satpath Brahman
A scared journalist produces a lifeless citizen. If our news is scared of the government, it is great injustice to readers and viewers who have been cheated in the name of news.
Ravish Kumar
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Satya Sai Baba
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Mata Amritanandmayi Devi
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margret Mead
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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Behaviour alone is that creates friends and foes.
Chanakya
Fearing the bond of desires is a great virtue as desires have the power to deceive.
Thirukkural
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy of honor.
Samrat Ashoka
A game of pleasure ought to be played for pleasure alone.
Mahabharata
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
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
Che Guevara
The pinching poverty of the wise is far better than the ill-gotten wealth.
Thirukkural
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, But it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Gautam Buddha
For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.
Dhirubhai Ambani
Many people have uninstalled Chinese apps. So when crores uninstall apps. It will be a message for the Chinese government when they are intruding into India.
Sonam Wangchuk
We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people's opinions.
C Rajagopalachari
Paper knowledge, paper evaluations, paper degrees all too papery and all too theoretical; it has very little that prepares us for real life in the real world.
Sonam Wangchuk
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interest. This is bitter truth.
Chanakya
The forms are many, but the informing spirit is one. How can there be room for distinctions of high and low where there is this all embracing fundamental unity underlying the outward diversity? For that is a fact meeting you at every step in daily life. The final goal of all religions is to realize this essential oneness.
Mahatma Gandhi
Females are the most georgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think we are goegeous no matter what size we are.
Alicia Keys
Don't try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you'll be fine.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When we think we know we cease to learn.
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Where Love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
A person who is trying to copy others will be a successful person for a while, but he won't be able to succeed further in life.
Ratan Tata
True wisdom is the ability to see divine in all beings.
Narada
Chief of all virtues is to tolerate the insults of others just as the earth tolerates the diggers.
Thirukkural
Kindness costs nothing, but its value is immesureable. Spread kindness wherever you go, for it has the power to change lives.
Sudha Murthy
Keep in mind only the thoughts you want to happen, thoughts are seeds and events are their fruits.”
B K Shivani
The citizens are the masters of this country and the mininsters are their servants.
Anna Hazare
Indian music is oriented solely to the end of divine communication. If I have done something in this respect entirely due to the grace of the Almighty who has chosen my humble self as a tool.“
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Though one may be a little bubble and another may be a mountain-high wave, yet behind both the bubble and the wave there is the infinite ocean.
Swami Vivekananda
There is scope even for those who have killed every virtue but not for those who have killed gratitude.
Thirukkural
Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.
Apj Abdul Kalam
There are lessons to be learnt from everyone. The wise person realises this.
Ramayana
Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
Thiruvalluvar
The appearance of a seed is in direct contradiction to its true nature.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let us never forget that we are all children of our motherland. Indeed, I have never worked in any other spirit than that of an Indian who owes devotion to his nation and his fellow citizens.
Dadabhai Naoroji
I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
Sai Baba
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
There’s no knowledge without right faith, no conduct is possible without knowledge, without conduct, there’s no liberation, and without liberation, no deliverance.
Mahavira
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.
Amartya Sen
The man who cannot appreciate music and literature is exactly like the lower animals, even though he may not possess horns and a tail.
Bhartrihari
Even a squirrel can provide the help that he is capable of.
Proverb
A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.
Paramhansa Yogananda

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