Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDIf there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people’s hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing – hunger; they have a thousand worries.
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We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
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Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.
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The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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If 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.
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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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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.
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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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If brothers don’t help each other in times of need, how do you think life will ever go on?
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Trees 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.
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What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.
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My life is simple and rough.
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