Indian Quotes

Stay focused on the mission.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can b

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.