As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life’s ultimate goal.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDAs long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life’s ultimate goal.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDThe world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDBeauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDLike timidity, bravery is also contagious.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDTrees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn’t drink it herself – that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDWe all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDI will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by all and for whom no one has any empathy, who is as if held on a leash by others, who has lost himself in hedonistic pursuits, who preys on those weaker to him and wags his tail for his superiors.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDTrust is the first step to love.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDWealth and compassion are opposites.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDIf someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDParents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDThe first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDIf brothers don’t help each other in times of need, how do you think life will ever go on?
MUNSHI PREMCHANDBoys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDMy life is simple and rough.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDI believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other’s work instead of being a hindrance.
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