Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDParents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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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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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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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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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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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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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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Secrets 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.
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Trust is the first step to love.
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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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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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What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.
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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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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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