(1). It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colours of the people who say they care for you.
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(2). Know yourself before judging others.
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(3). We rise by lifting others.
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(4). If my absence doesn't affect your life, then my presence has no meaning in it.
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(5). If you want to be strong, learn how to fight alone.
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(6). He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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(7). Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
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(8). Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realising that everyone has a different Question Paper.
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(9). Ten Rules To Be Happy.
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(2). Know yourself before judging others.
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(3). We rise by lifting others.
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(4). If my absence doesn't affect your life, then my presence has no meaning in it.
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(5). If you want to be strong, learn how to fight alone.
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(6). He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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(7). Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
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(8). Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realising that everyone has a different Question Paper.
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(9). Ten Rules To Be Happy.
--Enjoy simplicity.
--Smile as much as possible.
--Live for today.
--Love each other.
--Watch the sunset.
--Read hundreds of books.
--Listen to great music.
--Love yourself.
--Learn from your mistakes.
--Understand no one is perfect.
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(10). Eyes are useless when the mind is blind.
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(11). Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. (Jenn Proske).
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(12). It's good to have money and the things that money can but, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
(George H. Lorimer).
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(13). Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. (Moliere).
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(14). Don't give up because of one bad chapter in your life. Keep going. Your story doesn't end here.
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(15). You can never win an argument with a negative person. They only hear what suits them and listen only to respond.
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(16). You have no idea what people are dealing with in their personal life. So just be nice, it's that simple.
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(17). Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:
--Is it true?
--Is it necessary?
--Is it kind?
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(18). Any man can treat a lady right for one night, but it takes a great man to treat her right for the rest of her life.
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(19). Family is like branches of a tree, we all grow in different directions, but our root remains as one.
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(20). The happiest people in life are the givers, not the getters.
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(21). Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended or bitter. Choose to be happy.
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(22). A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation; doesn't always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
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(23). Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay. (Dalai Lama).
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(24). Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy until you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. (Buddha).
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(25). To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
(Thich Nhat Hanh).
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(26). A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realise how blessed you are for what you have.
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(27). Don't be parrot in life, be an eagle. A parrot talks too much and can't fly high, but an eagle is silent and has the power to touch the sky.
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(28). Difficult doesn't mean impossible. It simply means that you have to work hard.
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(29). Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say!!
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(30). Seven secrets of success - I found the answers in my room.
--Roof said: Aim high.
--Fan said: Be cool.
--Clock said: Every minute is precious.
--Mirror said: Reflect before you act.
--Window said: See the world.
--Calendar said: Be up-to-date.
--Door said: Push hard to achieve your goals.
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(31). Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. (Stephen Covey).
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(32). Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. (Stephen Covey).
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(33). Listen with intent to understand, not the intent to reply. (Stephen Covey).
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(34). Live out of your imagination, not your history.
(Stephen Covey).
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(35). Meet together, speak together, let your minds be of one accord, as the Gods of old, being of one mind, accepted their share of the sacrifice. May your counsel be common, common the mind, and the thoughts of these united. A common purpose do I lay before you, and worship with your common oblation. Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together. (Rig Veda 10.191.2-4).
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(36). Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. (Psalms, cxxxiii.1).
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(37). My children, war, fear, and disunity have brought you from your villages to this sacred council fire. Facing a common danger, and fearing for the lives of your families, you have yet drifted apart, each tribe thinking and acting only for itself...you must re-unite now and act as one. No tribe alone can withstand our savage enemies, who care nothing about the eternal law, who sweep upon us like the storms of winter, spreading death and destruction everywhere...Remember that you are brothers, that the downfall of one means the downfall of all. You must have one fire, one pipe, one war club. (Hiawatha, Onondaga Tradition).
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(38). The pebbles are the strength of the wall.
(Buji Proverb, Nigeria).
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(39). A preacher called at the home of a very poor family that lived in a dilapidated shack. When he came out, he found one of the family's two sons admiring his new car, so the minister explained that he had received it as a gift from his brother. Most lads would say, "I wish I had a brother like that". But this one said, "Mister, I wish I could be a brother like that". (Oren Arnold).
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(40). Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. (Paulo Coelho).
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(41). Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso).
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(42). Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
(John Wooden).
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(43). Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Confucius).
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(44). I am against a situation where the Left cannot think independently because of their obsession with American Imperialism...I am in favour of humanity, equity and justice, but also in favour of intelligence. (Amartya Sen).
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(45). Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Confucius).
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(46). Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. (Phillips Brooks).
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(47). Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain).
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(48). Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. (Buddha).
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(49). The only thing that can overcome a persuasive idea is a better idea. (Theodore S. Repplier).
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(50). Charm is a product of the unexpected. (Jose Marti).
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(51). The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. (John Locke).
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(52). I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes, then you are making new things. (Neil Gaiman).
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(53). Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied to us. (Winston Churchill).
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(54). Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended. (Alfred Lord Whitehead).
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(55). Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within. There is a huge difference between well-being and being well-off.
(Robin Sharma in 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari).
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(56). Trust yourself. Create the kind of life you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by framing the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into the flames of achievement. (Foster C. McClellan).
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(57). He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the way to inner peace and outer fulfillment. (Sages of the Himalayas).
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(58). The purpose of life is a life of purpose. (Robin S. Sharma).
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(59). The mind is like a fertile garden and for it to flourish, you must nurture it daily. Never let the weeds of impure thought and action take the garden of your mind. Stand guard at the gateway of your mind. Keep it healthy and strong - it will work miracles in your life if you will only let it. (Yogi Raman).
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(60). Clearly defined priorities and goals for every aspect of your life will serve a role similar to that played by a lighthouse, offering you guidance and refuge when the seas become rough.
(Robin S. Sharma).
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(61). There is a shortage of truth because we are running out of it. (C.S. Chakravarthy).
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(62). The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. (Suu Tzu).
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(63). It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. (Richard Whately).
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(64). Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. (Jonathan L. Huie).
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(65). When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. (Joel Osteen).
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(66). It is part of the cure to want to be cured. (Seneca).
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(67). Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. (Muriel Spark).
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(68). An ideal teacher is the perfect combination of raja and rishi, active and dynamic, yet wise and knowledgeable like a philosopher. (Prof. Radhakrishnan Pillai of Mumbai University).
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(69). After the dastardly terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, the mayor of Paris said, "We are at war". Who is the enemy? You can say it is ISIS or any other outfit that is engaged in violence. The real enemy is hatred. It is hatred that makes you say, 'my religion is better than yours'. You can go and destroy those people but that will stop the war. We have to help people to see it as a war between good and evil and people of religious faith have to step forward and say religion is about universal acceptance. We need to bring forth this higher consciousness as all true religions do. Today what is going on in the world is a call to arms for people of good faith to come together for peace. (Nayaswami Devi Novak of Ananda Sangha).
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(70). Prayer is not enough - we must take action and live our beliefs and express them outwardly by our actions. (Dalai Lama).
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(71). I refuse to accept that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.).
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(72). Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or like that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
(Jacques Derrinda).
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(73). Be sure you put your feet in the right place, they stand firm.
(Abraham Lincoln).
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(74). The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle).
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(75). Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (Francis of Assisi).
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(76). We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of our desire; the other sees it as the road which leads us to our destination; and as such it is part of our goal. (Rabindranath Tagore).
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(77). You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. (Nelson Mandela).
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(78). There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die is a process of learning. (Jiddu Krishnamurti).
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(79). At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. (Aristotle).
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(80). There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
(Henri Frederic Amiel).
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(81). Be sure you put your feet in the right place.
(Abraham Lincoln).
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(82). Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. (Laurence Sterne).
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(83). Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. (Charles R. Swindell).
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(84). Good is restraint in deed; good is restraint in speech; good is restraint in mind; good is restraint in everything. The bhikku, restrained at all points, is freed from all sorrow and suffering. (Dhammapada 361).
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(85). Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
(Henry David Thoreau).
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(86). I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. (Pablo Picasso).
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(87). Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
(Alexander Graham Bell).
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(88). At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. Its really your essence and your values that are important. (Queen Rania of Jordan).
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(89). To inherit eternal life...You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind; and you shall love your neighbour as yourself. (Jesus Christ).
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(90). Don't fight a battle if your don't gain anything by winning. (Erwin Rommel).
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(91). The very first principle laid down by Mahavira is ahimsa - non-injury to living beings - which must be observed very scrupulously and thoroughly, and behaving towards all living beings with proper restraint and control. (Dashavaikalika Sutra).
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(92). Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. (Oprah Winfrey).
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(93). No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. (Barack Obama).
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(94). If you derive pleasure from the good which you have performed and you be grieved for the evil which you have committed, you art a true believer...when action pricks your conscience, forsake it. (Prophet Muhammad).
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(95). There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. (Deepak Chopra).
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(96). Politics is war without bloodshed. (Mao Zedong).
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(97). Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up...Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. (Gandhiji).
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(98). Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. (Blaise Pascal).
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(98). All punishment is crime. Just because we have not been able to find the causes...or perhaps we were not willing to find the causes, because to find the causes would mean changing the whole social structure, and we were not ready for that good revolution. (Osho).
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(99). Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone's reach...liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone's life... (Franco Berardi).
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(100). He alone is learned, he alone is fortunate and successful, whose mind is no longer unstable as air, but is held firm. That is the way to liberation; that is the highest virtue, that is wisdom, strength and that is the merit of those who seek. (Devikalottara Agama 7-8).
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(101). A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. (William Shakespeare).
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(102). What is Time? Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. (Jorge Luis Borges).
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(103). We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. (Kurt Vonnegut).
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(104). Your fame or your person, which is dearer?; Your person or your goods, which is worth more?; Gain or loss, which is the greater bane?;...Know contentment, and you will suffer no disgrace; know when to stop, and you will meet with no danger. (Tao Te Ching 44).
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(105). The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. (Malala Yousafzai).
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(106). The sage creates music to correlate with Heaven and creates rituals to correlate with Earth. When rituals and music are well established, we have Heaven and Earth functioning in perfect order. (Confucius).
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(107). Everyone breathes the same air, so the benefits of pollution control are more or less evenly spread across the population. (Paul Krugman).
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(108). We are the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection...trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel...neural programmes give rise to our decision making loves, desires, fears and aspirations. (David Eagleman).
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(109). Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focussed attention. (Deepak Chopra).
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(110). United with Shakthi, Siva is endowed with the power to create the universe. Otherwise, He is incapable even of movement. Therefore, who except those endowed with great merits acquired in the past can be fortunate enough to salute or praise Thee, Mother Divine? (Adi Sankara).
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(111). Gathering a minute particle of dust from Thy lotus feet, Brahma, the creator, brings into being this universe (limitless and mysterious) without any imperfection. The sustainer, Vishnu, as Adisesha, somehow supports this universe made out of that dust with His thousand hoods. And Hara, the destroyer, crushing it into powder, rubs the ashes all over His body (at the time of dissolution). (Adi Sankara).
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(112). The dust of Thy feet is the Island City, wherefrom takes place the luminous sun-rise of spiritual illumination driving away the overcasting darkness of ignorance in the hearts of devotees. It forms buds, from which gushes forth the nectar of intelligence, enlivening the dull-witted. (Adi Sankara).
(113). It is a veritable necklace of wish-yielding gems for the poverty-stricken. And for those immersed in the ocean of samsara, it becomes their uplifter like the tusk of Vishnu, which raised the earth from submergence in the pralaya (floods) when He incarnated as the Cosmic Boar. (Adi Sankara).
(114). Newspapers are meant for dharma. And for the purpose of protecting dharma we have to live our dharma. (Mata Amritanandamayi).
(115). Media plays a very important role in upholding human rights. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar).
(116). If you are a Buddhist journalist, you would ask: Does my story help overcome individual and social suffering? ...Can a new global journalism of healing be practiced that embraces timely, truthful and helpful speech, and avoids the five destructive modes? (The McGill Report).
(117). The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the un-attributable telephone call, late at night. (Howard Brenton).
(118). A man can only lead a healthy and hassle-free life until he comes across these four poisons in his life: (i). Half-Knowledge; (ii). Digestion Problems; (iii). Forgetting Roots; (iv). Lust for younger women. (Chanakya).
(119). A wise man never discusses his financial constraints. If you are going through a financial loss, keep it to yourself. (Chanakya).
(120). Avoid those who talk sweetly in front of you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top. (Chanakya).
(121). Never spend a single day pass without learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it. (Chanakya).
(122). These five are your fathers: (i). He who gave you birth; (ii). Girdled you with the sacred thread; (iii). taught you; (iv). provided you with food; and (v). protected you from fearful situations. (Chanakya).
(123). A person who cannot decide his goal, simply cannot win. (Chanakya).
(124). Always keep your biggest plans as a secret. The simplest suggestion is to continue the task without grabbing much attention. (Chanakya).
(125). Infatuation is the biggest disease, greed is the worst enemy of an individual. Anger is the endless fire and among all possessions, knowledge is supreme. (Chanakya).
(126). Raining over the ocean, helping the capable, and lightening a lamp in daylight are nothing but useless acts. (Chanakya).
(127). You should be shameless while learning, negotiating in business, and having food. (Chanakya).
(128). A correct decision can double the confidence and a wrong decision can double the experience. So no need to worry about both the situations. Continue to do efforts. (Swami Vivekananda).
(129). A person's most valuable asset is not a brain loaded with knowledge, but A heart full of love with an ear open to listen and A hand willing to help...! (Swami Vivekananda).
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(12). It's good to have money and the things that money can but, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
(George H. Lorimer).
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(13). Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. (Moliere).
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(14). Don't give up because of one bad chapter in your life. Keep going. Your story doesn't end here.
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(15). You can never win an argument with a negative person. They only hear what suits them and listen only to respond.
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(16). You have no idea what people are dealing with in their personal life. So just be nice, it's that simple.
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(17). Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:
--Is it true?
--Is it necessary?
--Is it kind?
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(18). Any man can treat a lady right for one night, but it takes a great man to treat her right for the rest of her life.
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(19). Family is like branches of a tree, we all grow in different directions, but our root remains as one.
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(20). The happiest people in life are the givers, not the getters.
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(21). Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended or bitter. Choose to be happy.
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(22). A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation; doesn't always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
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(23). Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay. (Dalai Lama).
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(24). Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy until you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. (Buddha).
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(25). To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
(Thich Nhat Hanh).
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(26). A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realise how blessed you are for what you have.
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(27). Don't be parrot in life, be an eagle. A parrot talks too much and can't fly high, but an eagle is silent and has the power to touch the sky.
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(28). Difficult doesn't mean impossible. It simply means that you have to work hard.
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(29). Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say!!
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(30). Seven secrets of success - I found the answers in my room.
--Roof said: Aim high.
--Fan said: Be cool.
--Clock said: Every minute is precious.
--Mirror said: Reflect before you act.
--Window said: See the world.
--Calendar said: Be up-to-date.
--Door said: Push hard to achieve your goals.
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(31). Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. (Stephen Covey).
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(32). Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. (Stephen Covey).
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(33). Listen with intent to understand, not the intent to reply. (Stephen Covey).
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(34). Live out of your imagination, not your history.
(Stephen Covey).
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(35). Meet together, speak together, let your minds be of one accord, as the Gods of old, being of one mind, accepted their share of the sacrifice. May your counsel be common, common the mind, and the thoughts of these united. A common purpose do I lay before you, and worship with your common oblation. Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together. (Rig Veda 10.191.2-4).
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(36). Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. (Psalms, cxxxiii.1).
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(37). My children, war, fear, and disunity have brought you from your villages to this sacred council fire. Facing a common danger, and fearing for the lives of your families, you have yet drifted apart, each tribe thinking and acting only for itself...you must re-unite now and act as one. No tribe alone can withstand our savage enemies, who care nothing about the eternal law, who sweep upon us like the storms of winter, spreading death and destruction everywhere...Remember that you are brothers, that the downfall of one means the downfall of all. You must have one fire, one pipe, one war club. (Hiawatha, Onondaga Tradition).
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(38). The pebbles are the strength of the wall.
(Buji Proverb, Nigeria).
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(39). A preacher called at the home of a very poor family that lived in a dilapidated shack. When he came out, he found one of the family's two sons admiring his new car, so the minister explained that he had received it as a gift from his brother. Most lads would say, "I wish I had a brother like that". But this one said, "Mister, I wish I could be a brother like that". (Oren Arnold).
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(40). Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. (Paulo Coelho).
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(41). Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso).
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(42). Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
(John Wooden).
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(43). Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Confucius).
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(44). I am against a situation where the Left cannot think independently because of their obsession with American Imperialism...I am in favour of humanity, equity and justice, but also in favour of intelligence. (Amartya Sen).
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(45). Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Confucius).
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(46). Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. (Phillips Brooks).
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(47). Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain).
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(48). Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. (Buddha).
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(49). The only thing that can overcome a persuasive idea is a better idea. (Theodore S. Repplier).
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(50). Charm is a product of the unexpected. (Jose Marti).
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(51). The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. (John Locke).
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(52). I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes, then you are making new things. (Neil Gaiman).
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(53). Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied to us. (Winston Churchill).
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(54). Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended. (Alfred Lord Whitehead).
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(55). Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within. There is a huge difference between well-being and being well-off.
(Robin Sharma in 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari).
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(56). Trust yourself. Create the kind of life you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by framing the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into the flames of achievement. (Foster C. McClellan).
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(57). He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the way to inner peace and outer fulfillment. (Sages of the Himalayas).
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(58). The purpose of life is a life of purpose. (Robin S. Sharma).
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(59). The mind is like a fertile garden and for it to flourish, you must nurture it daily. Never let the weeds of impure thought and action take the garden of your mind. Stand guard at the gateway of your mind. Keep it healthy and strong - it will work miracles in your life if you will only let it. (Yogi Raman).
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(60). Clearly defined priorities and goals for every aspect of your life will serve a role similar to that played by a lighthouse, offering you guidance and refuge when the seas become rough.
(Robin S. Sharma).
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(61). There is a shortage of truth because we are running out of it. (C.S. Chakravarthy).
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(62). The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. (Suu Tzu).
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(63). It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. (Richard Whately).
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(64). Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. (Jonathan L. Huie).
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(65). When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. (Joel Osteen).
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(66). It is part of the cure to want to be cured. (Seneca).
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(67). Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. (Muriel Spark).
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(68). An ideal teacher is the perfect combination of raja and rishi, active and dynamic, yet wise and knowledgeable like a philosopher. (Prof. Radhakrishnan Pillai of Mumbai University).
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(69). After the dastardly terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, the mayor of Paris said, "We are at war". Who is the enemy? You can say it is ISIS or any other outfit that is engaged in violence. The real enemy is hatred. It is hatred that makes you say, 'my religion is better than yours'. You can go and destroy those people but that will stop the war. We have to help people to see it as a war between good and evil and people of religious faith have to step forward and say religion is about universal acceptance. We need to bring forth this higher consciousness as all true religions do. Today what is going on in the world is a call to arms for people of good faith to come together for peace. (Nayaswami Devi Novak of Ananda Sangha).
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(70). Prayer is not enough - we must take action and live our beliefs and express them outwardly by our actions. (Dalai Lama).
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(71). I refuse to accept that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.).
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(72). Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or like that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
(Jacques Derrinda).
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(73). Be sure you put your feet in the right place, they stand firm.
(Abraham Lincoln).
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(74). The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle).
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(75). Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (Francis of Assisi).
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(76). We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of our desire; the other sees it as the road which leads us to our destination; and as such it is part of our goal. (Rabindranath Tagore).
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(77). You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. (Nelson Mandela).
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(78). There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die is a process of learning. (Jiddu Krishnamurti).
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(79). At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. (Aristotle).
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(80). There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
(Henri Frederic Amiel).
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(81). Be sure you put your feet in the right place.
(Abraham Lincoln).
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(82). Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. (Laurence Sterne).
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(83). Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. (Charles R. Swindell).
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(84). Good is restraint in deed; good is restraint in speech; good is restraint in mind; good is restraint in everything. The bhikku, restrained at all points, is freed from all sorrow and suffering. (Dhammapada 361).
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(85). Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
(Henry David Thoreau).
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(86). I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. (Pablo Picasso).
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(87). Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
(Alexander Graham Bell).
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(88). At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. Its really your essence and your values that are important. (Queen Rania of Jordan).
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(89). To inherit eternal life...You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind; and you shall love your neighbour as yourself. (Jesus Christ).
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(90). Don't fight a battle if your don't gain anything by winning. (Erwin Rommel).
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(91). The very first principle laid down by Mahavira is ahimsa - non-injury to living beings - which must be observed very scrupulously and thoroughly, and behaving towards all living beings with proper restraint and control. (Dashavaikalika Sutra).
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(92). Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. (Oprah Winfrey).
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(93). No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. (Barack Obama).
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(94). If you derive pleasure from the good which you have performed and you be grieved for the evil which you have committed, you art a true believer...when action pricks your conscience, forsake it. (Prophet Muhammad).
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(95). There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. (Deepak Chopra).
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(96). Politics is war without bloodshed. (Mao Zedong).
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(97). Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up...Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. (Gandhiji).
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(98). Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. (Blaise Pascal).
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(98). All punishment is crime. Just because we have not been able to find the causes...or perhaps we were not willing to find the causes, because to find the causes would mean changing the whole social structure, and we were not ready for that good revolution. (Osho).
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(99). Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone's reach...liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone's life... (Franco Berardi).
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(100). He alone is learned, he alone is fortunate and successful, whose mind is no longer unstable as air, but is held firm. That is the way to liberation; that is the highest virtue, that is wisdom, strength and that is the merit of those who seek. (Devikalottara Agama 7-8).
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(101). A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. (William Shakespeare).
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(102). What is Time? Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. (Jorge Luis Borges).
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(103). We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. (Kurt Vonnegut).
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(104). Your fame or your person, which is dearer?; Your person or your goods, which is worth more?; Gain or loss, which is the greater bane?;...Know contentment, and you will suffer no disgrace; know when to stop, and you will meet with no danger. (Tao Te Ching 44).
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(105). The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. (Malala Yousafzai).
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(106). The sage creates music to correlate with Heaven and creates rituals to correlate with Earth. When rituals and music are well established, we have Heaven and Earth functioning in perfect order. (Confucius).
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(107). Everyone breathes the same air, so the benefits of pollution control are more or less evenly spread across the population. (Paul Krugman).
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(108). We are the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection...trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel...neural programmes give rise to our decision making loves, desires, fears and aspirations. (David Eagleman).
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(109). Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focussed attention. (Deepak Chopra).
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(110). United with Shakthi, Siva is endowed with the power to create the universe. Otherwise, He is incapable even of movement. Therefore, who except those endowed with great merits acquired in the past can be fortunate enough to salute or praise Thee, Mother Divine? (Adi Sankara).
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(111). Gathering a minute particle of dust from Thy lotus feet, Brahma, the creator, brings into being this universe (limitless and mysterious) without any imperfection. The sustainer, Vishnu, as Adisesha, somehow supports this universe made out of that dust with His thousand hoods. And Hara, the destroyer, crushing it into powder, rubs the ashes all over His body (at the time of dissolution). (Adi Sankara).
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(112). The dust of Thy feet is the Island City, wherefrom takes place the luminous sun-rise of spiritual illumination driving away the overcasting darkness of ignorance in the hearts of devotees. It forms buds, from which gushes forth the nectar of intelligence, enlivening the dull-witted. (Adi Sankara).
(113). It is a veritable necklace of wish-yielding gems for the poverty-stricken. And for those immersed in the ocean of samsara, it becomes their uplifter like the tusk of Vishnu, which raised the earth from submergence in the pralaya (floods) when He incarnated as the Cosmic Boar. (Adi Sankara).
(114). Newspapers are meant for dharma. And for the purpose of protecting dharma we have to live our dharma. (Mata Amritanandamayi).
(115). Media plays a very important role in upholding human rights. (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar).
(116). If you are a Buddhist journalist, you would ask: Does my story help overcome individual and social suffering? ...Can a new global journalism of healing be practiced that embraces timely, truthful and helpful speech, and avoids the five destructive modes? (The McGill Report).
(117). The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the un-attributable telephone call, late at night. (Howard Brenton).
(118). A man can only lead a healthy and hassle-free life until he comes across these four poisons in his life: (i). Half-Knowledge; (ii). Digestion Problems; (iii). Forgetting Roots; (iv). Lust for younger women. (Chanakya).
(119). A wise man never discusses his financial constraints. If you are going through a financial loss, keep it to yourself. (Chanakya).
(120). Avoid those who talk sweetly in front of you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top. (Chanakya).
(121). Never spend a single day pass without learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it. (Chanakya).
(122). These five are your fathers: (i). He who gave you birth; (ii). Girdled you with the sacred thread; (iii). taught you; (iv). provided you with food; and (v). protected you from fearful situations. (Chanakya).
(123). A person who cannot decide his goal, simply cannot win. (Chanakya).
(124). Always keep your biggest plans as a secret. The simplest suggestion is to continue the task without grabbing much attention. (Chanakya).
(125). Infatuation is the biggest disease, greed is the worst enemy of an individual. Anger is the endless fire and among all possessions, knowledge is supreme. (Chanakya).
(126). Raining over the ocean, helping the capable, and lightening a lamp in daylight are nothing but useless acts. (Chanakya).
(127). You should be shameless while learning, negotiating in business, and having food. (Chanakya).
(128). A correct decision can double the confidence and a wrong decision can double the experience. So no need to worry about both the situations. Continue to do efforts. (Swami Vivekananda).
(129). A person's most valuable asset is not a brain loaded with knowledge, but A heart full of love with an ear open to listen and A hand willing to help...! (Swami Vivekananda).
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