"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future."
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"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
"If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers."
"You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes."
"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
"I know that I've been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That's a beautiful thing."
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
"Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit."
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
"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."
"You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down..."
"Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening."
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
"I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man's thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man's thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean."
"Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power."
"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people."
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."