freedom

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Bhagwad Gita 2:58

I have set before you life and death; choose life, that you and your offspring may live.

Deuteronomy 30:19

It's so hard when i have to, and so easy when i want to.

Annie Gottlier

The immoral man has chosen one pole, the negative pole; the moral man has chosen another pole, the positive pole - and the religious person lives in choicelessness.

Osho

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.

Zig Ziglar

You and i are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra

Republic Day India

Republic Day 26th January Celebrations

Although India obtained its independence on 15 August 1947, it did not yet have a permanent constitution; instead, its laws were based on the modified colonial Government of India Act 1935, and the country was a Dominion, with George VI as head of state and Earl Mountbatten as Governor General. On 28 August 1947, the Drafting Committee was appointed to draft a permanent constitution, with Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar as chairman. While India'sIndependence Day celebrates its freedom from British Rule, the Republic Day celebrates the coming into force of its constitution.

A draft constitution was prepared by the committee and submitted to the Assembly on 4 November 1947. The Assembly met, in sessions open to public, for 166 days, spread over a period of 2 years, 11 months and 18 days before adopting the Constitution. After many deliberations and some modifications, the 308 members of the Assembly signed two hand-written copies of the document (one each in Hindi and English) on 24 January 1950. Two days later, the Constitution of India became the law of all the Indian lands. The Constitution of India was passed on 26 November 1949, 10.18 AM IST, but it came into effect completely only on 26 January 1950. Following elections on 21 January 1950, Rajendra Prasad was elected as the president of India. The Indian National Congress and other parties had been celebrating 26 January as a symbol of Independence, even before India actually became independent. Thus, applying the constitution on 26 January, to mark and respect 26 January and the freedom struggle and the freedom fighters.

The amending mechanism was lauded even at the time of introduction by Ambedkar in the following words: "We can therefore safely say that the Indian federation will not suffer from the faults of rigidity or legalism. Its distinguished feature is that it is a flexible federation.

"The three mechanisms of the system derived by the Assembly, contrary to the predictions, have made the constitution flexible at the same time protected the rights of the states. They have worked better than the amending process in any other country where Federalism and the British Parliamentary system jointly formed the basis of the constitution."

What Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (April 1955 to January 1957), said at the time of the emergence of Indian Republic is relevant in this context. He said, "Of all the experiments in government, which have been attempted since the beginning of time, I believe that the Indian venture into parliamentary government is the most exciting. A vast subcontinent is attempting to apply to its tens and thousands of millions a system of free democracy... It is a brave thing to try to do so. The Indian venture is not a pale imitation of our practice at home, but a magnified and multiplied reproduction on a scale we have never dreamt of. If it succeeds, its influence on Asia is incalculable for good. Whatever the outcome we must honour those who attempt it."

Even more meaningful was the opinion expressed by an American Constitutional authority, Granville Austin, who wrote that what the Indian Constituent Assembly began was "perhaps the greatest political venture since that originated in Philadelphia in 1787."

Austin has also described the Indian Constitution as 'first and foremost a social document.' ... "The majority of India's constitutional provisions are either directly arrived at furthering the aim of social revolution or attempt to foster this revolution by establishing conditions necessary for its achievement."

To mark the importance of the occasion, every year a grand parade is held in the capital, New Delhi, from the Raisina Hill near the Rashtrapati Bhavan(President's Palace), along the Rajpath, past India Gate . Prior to its commencement, the Prime Minister lays a floral wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti, a memorial to unknown soldiers at the India Gate at one end of Rajpath, which is followed by two minutes silence in the memory of unknown soldiers. Thereafter he/she reaches the main dais at Rajpath to join other dignitaries, subsequently the President arrives along with the chief guest of the occasion. First he unfurls the National flag, as the National Anthem is played, and a 21-gun salute is given. Next, important awards like the Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra are given away by the President, before the regiments of Armed Forces start their march past.

The different regiments of the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force march past in all their finery and official decorations. The President of India who is theCommander-in-Chief of the Indian Armed Forces, takes the salute. Floats exhibiting the cultures of the various states and regions of India are in the grand parade, which is broadcast nationwide on television and radio. Also part of the parade are children who win the National Bravery Award for the year.^[2] The parade also includes other vibrant displays and floats and traditionally ends with a flypast by the Indian Air Force jets.

Celebrations are also held in state capitals, where the Governor of the state unfurls the national flag. If the Governor of the state is unwell, or is unavailable for some reason, the Chief Minister of the state assumes the honour of unfurling the National Flag of India.

Today, the Republic Day is celebrated with much enthusiasm all over the country and especially in the capital, New Delhi where the celebrations start with the Presidential address to the nation. The beginning of the occasion is always a solemn reminder of the sacrifice of the martyrs who died for the country in the freedom movement and the succeeding wars for the defence of sovereignty of their country. Then, the President comes forward to award the medals of bravery to the people from the armed forces for their exceptional courage in the field and also the civilians, who have distinguished themselves by their different acts of valour in different situations.

To mark the importance of this occasion, every year a grand parade is held in the capital, from the Rajghat, along the Vijaypath. The different regiments of the army, the Navy and the Air force march past in all their finery and official decorations even the horses of the cavalry are attractively caparisoned to suit the occasion. The crème of N. C. C. cadets, selected from all over the country consider it an honour to participate in this event, as do the school children from various schools in the capital. They spend many days preparing for the event and no expense is spared to see that every detail is taken care of, from their practice for the drills, the essential props and their uniforms.

The parade is followed by a pageant of spectacular displays from the different states of the country. These moving exhibits depict scenes of activities of people in those states and the music and songs of that particular state accompany each display. Each display brings out the diversity and richness of the culture of India and the whole show lends a festive air to the occasion. The parade and the ensuing pageantry is telecast by the National Television and is watched by millions of viewers in every corner of the country.

The patriotic fervor of the people on this day brings the whole country together even in her essential diversity. Every part of the country is represented in occasion, which makes the Republic Day the most popular of all the national holidays of India.

Quotes on Life Love one another and help others

Quotes on Life

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Sathya Sai Baba

Before healing others, heal yourself.

Lao Tzu

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Gautama Buddha

If i find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, i have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when i sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

Deepak Chopra

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counselling, self-help seminars, and i've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

Lindsay Wagner

Sweet Thoughts

Serenity, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purity of thought are the austerities of the mind.

Bhagavad Gita 17:16

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.

Guru Ramdas

Simplicity is not to be found; it does not lie as a choice between the essential and the non-essential. It comes into being when the mind is not caught in speculations, conclusions, beliefs, ideations. Such a free mind only can find truth. Such a mind alone can receive that which is immeasurable, which is unnameable; and that is simplicity.

J Krishnamurti

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness.

The XIV Dalai Lama

Manifest plainness,

Embrace simplicity,

Reduce selfishness,

Have few desires.

Lao-Tzu

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Kindness The Essence of Living

Kindness Quotes and Inspiring Quotes

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.

Talmud

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When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

The Dalai Lama

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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received or how much money we have made... We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, i was naked and you clothed me, i was homeless and you took me in.'

Mother Teresa

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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If i stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: If i do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Martin Luther King Jr

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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

Audrey Hepburn

Spiritual Quotes

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."

-Mahatma Gandhi



“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”
Spiritual quote by Deepak Chopra (Born October, 1946)

“For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.”
Deepak Chopra quote



"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
-Tom Wilson

"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."
-Peter Marshall

"A bone to the dog is not charity.
Charity is the bone shared with the dog,
when you are just as hungry as the dog."
-Jack London

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
-Bob Hope

“Calvin: Do you believe in a supreme evil being
dedicated to the temptation,
corruption, and destruction of man?
Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help”
-Calvin and Hobbes

Each Day Is A Brand New Opportunity To Be Jesus To The World

- R. Falcon

"It is not the great temptations that ruin us;
it is the little ones."
-John W. DeForest

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate
between good and evil."
-Cicero

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one,
no less wise, to balance it."
-George Santayana

"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification."
-Martin Fischer


"Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it."

-David Jeremiah

"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."

-John Harrison

"It's so simple to be wise.
Just think of something stupid to say
and say the opposite."
-Sam Levenson

"Whatever is at the center of our life
will be the source of our security,
guidance, wisdom, and power."
-Stephen Covey

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power,
and teach us, that the less we use our power,
the greater it will be."
-Thomas Jefferson

Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.

-Jenny Sanford

"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom.
Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future."
-Vernon Cooper

"Six essential qualities that are the key to success:
Sincerity, personal integrity, humility,
courtesy, wisdom, charity."
-William Menninger

"Actually, we have no problems,
we have opportunities for which we should give thanks.
-Edgar Cayce

An error we refuse to correct has many lives.
It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings
and wisdom to do something about them."
-Edgar Cayce


“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”
Spiritual quote by Paramahansa Yogananda (January, 1893 - March, 1952)

Yogananda has come to be recognized as one of the preeminent spiritual figures of the twentieth century. In 1920 he brought Yoga and the specialized practice of Kriya Yoga from the east to the United States of America. His deep sense of spirituality and motivation to spread the word of Yoga has resulted in thousands of spiritual centers around the world.

“The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness.”
Spiritual Quote by Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama, meaning deep spiritual teacher, referred to as “His Holiness” was the head of the Tibetan government until his exile in India in 1959. Chinese and Tibetan history has increased His Holiness’ impact and inspiration on the people of Tibet. The Dalai Lama’s books and quotes have provided deep spiritual insight for many who seek enlightenment.

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Spiritual quote by Dr. Wayne Dyer (born May, 1940)

Dr. Wayne Dyer is an internationally renowned spiritual author and speaker. He has written over 20 self help books on how to improve thinking, motivation and inspiration. Some have called him the Father of Motivation. His book “Inspiration” and others have been featured as a National Public Television Special. Dyer’s quotes have also been featured in many of his books and lectures.

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
Dr. Wayne Dyer quote

“When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists -- as it surely will. Then act with courage.”
Spiritual quote by Ponca Chief White Eagle (1800's to 1914)

“Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors; we borrow it from our Children.”
Ancient Indian Proverb


“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
White Elk quote

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
Chief Seattle, 1854

“May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong.”
Quote by Chief Dan George

“Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.”
Black Elk quote

“I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are; but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man.”
Spiritual quote by Sun Bear of the Chippewa Tribe

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.”
Indian saying

“Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.”
Buddha quote

“The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.”
Buddha Spiritual Quote

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Spiritual quote by Buddha

“The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.”
Buddha quotation

“Whether one believes in a religion or not and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.”
Dalai Lama quote

“The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience,
tolerance, humility, forgiveness.”
Dalai Lama Spiritual quote

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Spiritual quote by The Dalai Lama

“The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness.”
Dalai Lama quotation

“O' GREAT SPIRIT help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.”
Cherokee Prayer

“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.”
Cree Prophecy

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?
A Course in Miracles

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And you’re thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.
A Course in Miracles

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.
A Course in Miracles

No evidence will convince you of the truth of what you do not want.
A Course in Miracles

Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true.
A Course in Miracles

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Quote by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr (June, 1892 - June, 1971)

“Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”
Spiritual quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson (May, 1803 - April, 1882)

“Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.”
Spiritual quote by C.S. Lewis (November, 1898 - November, 1963)

It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
Crowfoot, Blackfoot (1830 – 1890) Spiritual quote

“Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.”
Spiritual quote by Pema Chodron (born 1936)

"Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way."
Native American saying

“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.”
Herbert Otto (March, 1897 - December, 1966) quote

“The Buddha's teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (born October, 1926) spiritual quote

“Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; you’re next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (April, 1897 - September 1981) quote

“Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.”
Spiritual quote by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real? whatever it is you are resisting.”
Quote by Neale Donald Walsh (born September, 1943)

“People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.”
Quote by Joseph Campbell (March, 1904 - October, 1987)

“Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.”
Spiritual quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson (May, 1803 - April, 1882)

“Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are.”
Spiritual quote by David R. Hawkins (born June 1927)

“Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.”
David R. Hawkins quote

“The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of 'now' which is discernable between two thoughts.”
David R. Hawkins spiritual quote

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”
Quote by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (July, 1926 - August, 2004)

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.”
Spiritual quote by Dorothy Thompson (July, 1893 – January, 1961)

“You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.”
Spiritual quote by Anthony De Mello (September 1931 - June, 1987)

“Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are by our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.”
Spiritual quote by Thaddeus Golas (born June,1924)

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Rules For Living

Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs
   Respect for self
   Respect for others
   Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Enjoy Every Minute

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.
Mother would come out and say, You're tearing up the grass.
We're not raising grass, Dad would reply.We Are raising boys.

~Harmon Killebrew

Fathers matter. So does keeping the important things in perspective.
The lawn will always be there, but children grow up and move away, and being a parent to lively young children is fleeting it. Enjoy every minute!


Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

If you possess happiness you possess everything

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

That man is nearest to God who forgives, when he had in his power him who would have injured him.

Prophet Muhammad

If i have a little mind and i think of God, the God of my thinking will be a little God, though i may clothe him with grandeur, beauty, wisdom and all the rest of it.

J Krishnamurti

Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hair matted, long and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

Kabir

God is a philosophical black hole - the point where reason breaks down.

Kedar Joshi

Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

The Ego all About it

•If our ego does not interfere, our heart and intellect act under divine guidance


•Egotism can ruin everything. You have to learn that egotism has no place in spiritual life, in the form of either insolence or despair.


•Try to get rid of the ego. A close watch should be kept all along the path. The ego may take the form of superiority or inferiority. Try to humiliate it and get rid of it. The ego is an impostor masquerading as ourselves. We are the Self, an entirely different thing.


•It is unfortunate not to meet with humiliation, because humiliation is the best way to get rid of this "I".


•Beware of any outgoing tendency of the mind, of so-called doing good with the egotistic sense of helping anyone. God alone helps man.


•Any idea of yourself except the true idea of Self is egotism. A man who whines is an egotist and a man who shouts is also an egotist; neither of these attitudes is acceptable to God. But there is another approach, a childlike approach; that is the kind of thing God wants.


•If we can forget our own tremendous interest in the ego, extraordinary powers of the Spirit will manifest


•Those who say "It is the will of God" just say so to stop any further thinking.


•If you want to commune with God, it is done with the enlargement and expansion of your conscious mind. This mind becomes superconscious


•Ignorance often functions by denying the thing of which we are ignorant.


•With the conscious mind alone we can reach the highest, without the use of the unconscious mind


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Most Famous Quotes by Jawahar Lal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889–27 May 1964) was an Indian statesman who was the first prime minister of India, from 1947 until 1964.


A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Jawaharlal Nehru

A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru



Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Great causes and little men go ill together.
Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Jawaharlal Nehru


The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Jawaharlal Nehru

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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Simply Amazing Thoughts

CONFIDENCE:

1 Day all villagers decided to pray for rain.

On the day of prayer all people gathered & only one boy come with umbrella. THATS CONFIDENCE.


TRUST:

Trust should be like feeling of a 1 year old baby, when you throw him in tha air, he laughs....

because he know you will catch him...


HOPE:

Every night we go to bed, have no assurance to get up alive in the next morning

but still we have many plans for coming day...


KEEP CONFIDENCE, TRUST IN GOD AND NEVER LOSE HOPE...


PLAN while others are playing.
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STUDY while others are sleeping.
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DECIDE while others are delaying.
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AND Enjoy THIS STORY

THE MAN AND HIS FINGER


A man once went to see a doctor complaining of aches and pains all over his body.


"Doctor my whole body hurts me," he moaned. The doctor asked him to show exactly where the pain was.


The man explained, "When I touch my shoulder, it hurts. When I touch my back it hurts. When I touch my legs, they hurt."


The doctor did a thorough examination and told the man-



"Sir, there is nothing wrong with your body. Your finger is broken. That is why it hurts wherever you touch. Get your finger plastered, rest it for a couple of weeks and all of your pains will disappear."! !

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SPIRITUAL COMMENTARY


In life so frequently it is our own perspective that causes us pain or pleasure.


As we go through life "feeling" the world with our fingers, if our finger is broken naturally we will experience pain everywhere. But,


we make the mistake of blaming the external world for our ailments: "My job is over-taxing, my husband is too demanding, my wife nags, my children are disobedient, my in-laws don't understand me, etc. etc."


But if you look throughout the world you will be able to find someone who has the same type of job, but is calm, or someone who has the same type of spouse but is happy, or someone who has the same type of children but is patient, or someone who has the same type of in-laws but is grateful.


What is it that allows 2 people to experience the same external situation but respond in 2 different ways?


Our own perspective. Our own perception.The key, then, is not to try to change every situation in our life, but rather to change the glasses through which we see the world.


Sure, if we have a fixable situation at the office or at home, we should definitely do our best to improve it. But, what we have observed is that if someone has the nature to be dissatisfied, or the nature to be stressed, or the nature to be pained, that person's nature is not going to change simply by changing the external situation.


A massage for the back or shoulder or legs would not help the man in our earlier example because it is his finger which is broken. He could spend hundreds of dollars to ease the pain in his body, but unless he puts his broken finger in a splint, he will continue to experience pain every time that finger touches the various parts of his body.


Similarly, we run around through life trying to "fix" our jobs or marriages or family life, but frequently the reality is in our own perspective. If we spend the same amount of energy "fixing" our perspective as we spend trying to "fix" our spouse or children,everything would be fine.


This is not to say that pains and troubles don't really exist in our day to day life. Of course they do.The man in our example may also have a stiff back or sore shoulders. But the excruciating pain he experienced was due not to the minor aches and pains in his body, but due to the severely broken finger with which he was touching them.


Similarly, our jobs and our families are taxing. They demand a lot of us. But the unbearable pain many of us experience is due not to the demands and commands from without, but due to the demands and commands from within ourselves.


In the Gita it is said that we are our best friend and also our own worst enemy, depending upon how we live our lives.


In this New Year,let us all take some time to examine what our own personal "broken finger" is.


What is it within ourselves that causes us to experience pain in the world? What irrational fear, what unfulfillable desire, what selfish motive, what ego-driven need has broken the finger with which we feel the world or has colored the glasses with which we see? We spend so much time examining others, but very little time examining our own selves.


The Source of all joy and peace lies within us.


We are blocked from that Source by a host of desires, fears and ignorance.


The key to finding and tapping into that Source must come from within.


Let us find the key within ourselves and unleash the Ocean of Divine Bliss in our lives!!Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Amazing Quotes on Gratitude

Amazing Gratitude Inspirational Quotes And Quotations

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
~William A. Ward


The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
~H.U. Westermayer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
~ Wayne Dyer

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
~Buddha

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ~Cicero

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~ John F Kennedy

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
~G.B. Stern



If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart


There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
~Robert Brault,

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
~G.K. Chesterton


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard


Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.
~Kak Sri


If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
~John Dryden


As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton


You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
~G.K. Chesterton


For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark


The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear



Praise the bridge that carried you over.
~George Colman


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
~Robert Quillen


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~Epictetus


What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
~Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924


Gratitude is the best attitude.
~Author Unknown


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~W.T. Purkiser


We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
~Will Carleton


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder


Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~William Faulkner


If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
~Gerald Good


Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
~Thomas Fuller


There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
~Joseph Addison


Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness. ~Author Unknown


I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~Benjamin Disraeli


There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
~R.H. Blyth


Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Henry Clay


Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
~Estonian Proverb


All that we behold is full of blessings.
~William Wordsworth


Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~Henry Ward Beecher


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
~George Canning


As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy


We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick


Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
~Horace


The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
~Robert South


Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
~Aldous Huxley


When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
~Chinese Proverb


Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.
~Ovid


In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
~H.L. Mencken


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
~Author Unknown

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Mantra For Happines

The mantra For Happiness

A great emperor asked his wise men to give him a mantra that could be used in any dangerous,fatal situation. Clueless, eventually they went to a Sufi mystic who gave them a piece of paper and said, “This should not be opened unless there really is
danger and there is no more hope!”


The king put the piece of paper under the diamond of his ring.

There were many moments when danger approached, but the Sufi had emphatically said, “Unless you feel this is really the last hope – that nothing can be more dangerous
– do not open it!” Many dangers came and went, but the king always felt that he could face it,and that he was not yet at the end of his tether.

Finally, death approached, and the king had still had not opened the piece of paper. His wise men pleaded,“Please open it. We want to see what is there.” But the king said, “It is now irrelevant what is there; the mantra has worked upon me. Ever
since I received this mantra, I have not felt any danger at all.

Whatsoever the danger was, I have felt still more was possible, and I have remained unperturbed.”

The king continued, “That Sufi is a wise man. I am not concerned about what he has written.”

After the king died, his wise men hastened to open the ring and pull out the paper. There was nothing written on it; it was a blank piece of paper. But the advice worked; the mantra worked.


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Diwali Quotes or Quotations

Diwali Quotes or Quotations, Saying for Diwali | Dipawali Sms Quotes

1. On the precious moment of Diwali I wish you Happy Diwali and I pray that you get all your endeavors fulfilled as well as you get lots of gifts and sweets this Diwali.

2. Today I feel gifted and blessed that my Diwali is full of affection, love, celebrations as it was always. May God always keep his blessings on us like this.

3. Maa Laxmi will come to your house and will shower her blessings upon you, remember to keep your doors open and decorate them with lots of lights and flowers.

4. May the Divine Light of Diwali spread into your life Peace, Prosperity, Happiness and Good Health. Happy Diwali.

5. The sun does not shine there, nor do the moon and the stars, nor do lightning shine? All the Diyas of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of the inner light of the Self. Merge yourself in this light of lights and enjoy the Happy Diwali.

6. Memories of moments celebrated together…….
Moments that have been attached in my heart, forever…….
Make me Miss You even more this Diwali.
Hope this Diwali brings in Good Fortune & Abounding Happiness for you!

7. Fortunate is the one who has learned to Admire, but not to envy. Good wishes for a joyous Diwali with a plenty of peace and prosperity.

8. May you all attain full inner illumination! May the supreme light of lights enlighten your understanding! May you all attain the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of the Self! May you all prosper gloriously on the material as well as spiritual planes!

9. This Diwali I wish you get a lot of crackers but you don’t get a match box to lit them. Save environment, so no to crackers.

10. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival…because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.

Some of the short and sweet Diwali Sms Quotes or Messages

1. Wish you and your family a bombastic Diwali!!! Have loads of fun and loads of masti!! Happy Diwali!!

2. The festival of light is full of delight
Let me double the charm of your diwali night!!
Happy Diwali!!!

3. Raat Thi Kaali
Life Thi Khaali
Phir Sab Kutch Badla
Jo Ayee Diwali!!

4. Happiness is in air
Its Diwali everywhere
Lets show some love and care
And wish everyone out there
Happy Diwali!!!

5. Life with you is like diwali, so lets promise to be together like this forever. Wish you a very Happy Diwali!!

6. You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

7. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

8. Long live the tradition of hindu culture and as the generations have passed by hindu culture is getting stronger and stronger lets keep it up. Best Wishes for Diwali.

9. For This, Is A Special Time When Family
And Friends Get Together,For Fun.
Wishing Laughter And Fun To Cheer Your Days,
In This Festive Season Of Diwali And Always!!!!!!!!

“Happy Deepavali”

Diwali Quotes or Quotations, Saying for Diwali | Dipawali Sms Quotes

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