Hinduism Quotes

• The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Successful

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• Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

  Happiness, Respect, Kindness

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• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ocean, Treasure, Priceless

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Errors, Differences, Higher

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2597, Manonmani Publishers

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• Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

  Michael Tippett

  Nice, Shiva, World

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• Let what comes come, let what goes go.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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• In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Philosophy, Gita

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.184, Gibbs Smith

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• Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Self, Excellent

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• Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Practice, Gita

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• The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

  Radhanath Swami

  Compassion, Essence, God Love

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Roots, Desire, Four

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• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

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• The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Profound, World

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• There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Zero, India, Revolutionary

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• The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Real, Lovers, Seekers

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• So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Men, Judging

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.243

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• We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Taught Us

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• Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

  Lin Yutang

  Mind, India, Essentials

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• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, World, Today

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• It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

  Mark Twain

  Gentle, Inconvenient

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5631, Delphi Classics

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• If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

  Narendra Modi

  Beautiful, India, Looks

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Self, Realization

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• Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brotherhood, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

  Will Durant

  Understanding, Tolerance, Mind

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

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