People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDPeople are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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 PREMCHANDMy life is simple and rough.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDThe first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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 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 PREMCHANDSince the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one’s ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can’t even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDBeauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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 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.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDWe all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDTrust is the first step to love.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDWe 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.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDSecrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
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.
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