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.
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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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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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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We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
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If 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.
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The 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.
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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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The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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Boys 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.
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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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Trust is the first step to love.
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People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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My life is simple and rough.
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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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