Awdhesh Singh Quotes

“It is possible to change yourself and change ‘your’ world. Your world consists of a small number of people like your family, friends, relatives and colleagues. By living peacefully with them, you can surely make your world better. If you are still left with more energy and life, then you can try and change the rest of the world.”

World Energy Change Colleagues Rest Your Relatives Peacefully

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“While routine and mundane jobs may be ridiculed or looked down upon in some circles, the fact is that these jobs provide livelihood to millions of people. A good information technology company in India employs thousands of professionals every year giving them decent salaries. However, in fields such as politics, writing, cinema or arts, there are very few people who come on top, and those who do, end up taking home almost all the rewards, leaving little for the runners-up or the bottom rankers.”

Writing Information Cinema Mundane Livelihood Professionals Rankers

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“A job is not merely a means to earn livelihood but it also gives you a position in the society. You also participate in the betterment of the world by making meaningful contribution through your profession.”

Society Profession Meaningful Contribution Livelihood Betterment

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“Who can make you unhappy, if you have developed the ability to enjoy even difficult and uninteresting jobs?”

Jobs Enjoy Unhappy Developed Uninteresting

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“We rarely question the knowledge of the subconscious mind and do not let anything contrary to enter our mind. We refuse to hear any argument against our subconscious knowledge-which has become our belief and faith is the greatest hindrance in knowing the truth and understanding the reality.”

Reality Belief Knowledge Argument Subconscious Hindrance

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“It is easy to find from the statistics pertaining to crime rate in a country that crimes against women are lowest in Islamic countries where women are dressed modestly and covered in burka (veil) in public places. Appropriate dressing, particularly in public places and before strangers can to some extent prevent crimes against women.”

Women Crime Appropriate Strangers Veil Particularly Modestly

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“When you understand that there is nothing really good or bad in this world in the absolute sense, you focus your attention on balancing everything in the appropriate manner rather than craving for something and discarding the rest. A happy person, like a healthy person, takes a balanced diet of everything that nature presents to him.”

Nature Focus Healthy Happy Good Appropriate Balanced Absolute Rest

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“The incremental value of wealth declines as we become richer. Yet people keep on accumulating it. They think that more is better. Hence, when they fail to get happiness even after becoming wealthy, instead of looking for the appropriate reason for their unhappiness, they blame lack of greater wealth for the lack of happiness and work even harder to make more money with the hope of buying happiness with money.”

Happiness Hope Money Appropriate Unhappiness Richer Incremental Accumulating

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“Our values are like words of a language that would make no sense to a person who does not know that language, but looks perfectly meaningful to the one who does.”

Looks Values Language Meaningful Sense Perfectly

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“There are two types of person in the world. The first are those who create expectations and the second are those who have to fulfil the expectations.”

World Expectations Create First Types Fulfil

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“Love should not be treated as panacea for all happiness and excessive love or love at the wrong place or for wrong people can become a source of tremendous pain and misery.”

Love Happiness Misery Panacea Excessive Tremendous

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“When we are mentally prepared to receive pain, the impact is much lesser as compared to when we are unaware of the impending pain.”

Pain Unaware Mentally Impending Lesser

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“The world has always been ruled by violent people just as a jungle is ruled by a lion. Non-violent people have always had to submit to the onslaught of the violent people and lose their honour.The rule of non-violence i as utopian as the sheep ruling a jungle over lions.”

World Violent Honour Submit Jungle Non Violence Utopian Ruled Onslaught

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“Non-violence is so deeply embedded into the Indian psyche that people avoid fighting even when they should—against injustice and unrighteousness. Indian masses are by nature so non-violent that God himself had to take birth in human form to establish Dharma and do the (dirty) job of killing the unrighteous.”

Dharma Non Violence Embedded Psyche Establish Unrighteousness Deeply

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“The purpose of history writing has become to glorify the past and inculcate in the mind of every citizen the spirit of nationalism and pride. History is an attempt to visualise the reality of the past from the lenses of today. Every truth of history has to filter through the values of the present to become a part of history.”

Truth Purpose History Nationalism Lenses Glorify Citizen Attempt Visualise Inculcate

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“It is the fear of retaliation that prevents most people from committing wrong against their enemy. A state or an individual who does not pay back its offenders can`t live honourably.”

Individual Enemy Offenders Retaliation Committing Honourably

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“The quest of power can delude man. Power creates hatred and powerful people often fear for their lives. A man, when in power, can intimidate everyone but becomes scared for himself when out of power. Power is addictive; once you live and learn to wield power, it is difficult to live without it.”

Power Hatred Scared Quest Intimidate Addictive

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“Just like a drop of the seawater has the same level of salinity as the sea itself, we are usually in agreement with the rationality of the society and the era.”

Agreement Rationality Era Drop Usually Seawater Salinity

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“Instead of criticising people who are superior to you, learn from them and inculcate these superior qualities in your own life.”

Life Qualities Superior Instead Inculcate Criticising

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“Social constantly exerts pressure on individuals to conform to the moral code of conduct and the individual always tries to free himself from the shackles of morality. Astrong person redefines the morality of society while a weak person is crushed by the society’s moral pressure.”

Moral Morality Pressure Conform Crushed Shackles Exerts

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“When we see the reality which can’t be explained by our existing faith and beliefs, we drop or modify our beliefs and try to understand the world by using our renewed beliefs. Our faith is not hard-coded but changes with time like a living entity.”

Reality Time Faith Entity Existing Renewed Explained Modify

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“Knowing the world means having first-hand knowledge about it, which in turn means understanding ‘why the world is what it is’ and ‘why people are what they are’?”

People World Understanding Knowledge Turn First Hand

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“When you have multiple options and you can choose only one, you often feel unhappy about discarding the rest of the options, when your chosen option does not provide you happiness and satisfaction. Also, when you have multiple options, you never feel settled since you are always moving from one option to another, one person to another and one job to another which ends up making your life more miserable than enjoyable.”

Happiness Satisfaction Choose Enjoyable Discarding

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“When time changes, the law also changes to suit the new rulers. Often the same people who were being accused of heinous crimes like treason according to the then laws, become the martyrs and messiahs when the laws are changed.”

Time Rulers Crimes Martyrs Messiahs Heinous

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“Family is the smallest and loveliest institution created by man. A family is bound together not by any rules and laws stipulated by the government but by love and trust among family members.”

Government Smallest Rules Laws Bound Loveliest Stipulated

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“Often you can save yourself from a problem by simply telling a lie. A lie, however, has no impact if the person is known to be a liar. Only a person with reputation of honesty is benefited from a lie since people believe his words to be true based on his past track record. However, once the lie is detected, the person loses all prospective benefits that lying may have brought in the future.”

Believe Future Impact Lie Simply Brought Detected

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“Love is like a living being with a body and a soul. The soul of love is emotion while the body of love is action. Just like body and soul are integrated, emotions and actions too are integrated. You do some loving actions naturally when you feel love for a person. But, if the actions are missing, even 104 | 31 Ways to Happiness Manage Your Love | 105 though the feelings might be there, love can’t survive for long.”

Love Soul Feelings Happiness Manage Naturally

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“We don’t know if the mythologies are fact or fiction or mix of the two. But as far as people have faith in them, they shape their values. When people lose faith in scriptures and mythologies, they easily fall prey to the fictions of the modern times, which propagate infidelity, pleasure seeking and materialism.”

Values Faith Fall Fiction Modern Materialism Mythologies Propagate

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“The ancient sages used divine characters to create mythologies and scriptures to make them more believable. All scriptures are said to be the words of God so that people are convinced about their veracity and believe them.”

God Divine Ancient Convinced Scriptures Veracity Sages Mythologies

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“The characters of mythologies are like superman or spider-man who have infinite power and infinite goodness. When people try to imitate God, they fail miserably. You have to be stupid to jump from a hundred storey building like Superman in the hope that you will be able to fly like him.”

Hope Power Stupid Infinite Fly Mythologies Miserably

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“Eye-for-eye’ policy works well when you are stronger than the one who has hurt you. When your opponent is more powerful than you, ‘offer your other cheek’ law often works better.”

Happiness Opponent Eye For Eye Offer Your Other Cheek

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“If you are happy, you may not be tempted to buy anything except the real necessities of life. Businesses, therefore, exaggerate negativities in the world to sell their products and services. They try to convince you that if you wish to be happy, you must buy their car, home or clothes or visit the exotic locations managed by them.”

Happy Exotic Businesses Managed Locations Negativities

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“True knowledge is one that comes from within, from personal experiences, or from a reliable source. True knowledge is same all over the world and for everyone.”

Source Personal Experiences True Knowledge Reliable

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“A person who takes responsibility of his life believes in the immutability of laws that govern this world. When we fail to achieve our desired fruit, it is because we failed to sow the right seed in the right soil at the right time.”

Responsibility Fruit Seed Failed Govern Believes Immutability

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“You can’t become an illiterate person again once you have become literate. You can’t think like a teetotaller once you have become alcoholic. Every piece of knowledge and every experience of your life transforms you forever and you are never the same person again.”

Happiness Knowledge Literate Transforms Teetotaller

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“The work which can be done by your subordinates should be delegated, even if you like doing the work yourself. You must rather focus only on those tasks that can be done by you alone. If you still have some time left, focus on future planning and improving the efficiency of the organisation.”

Focus Future Efficiency Improving Organisation Subordinates Delegated

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“When we close our options at some point of time, we learn to be happy with what we have. However, when we keep our options open, we are rarely happy with what we have as we find the grass greener on the other side of the fence.”

Time Happy Learn Fence Greener Options Point

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“It is natural to feel angry once in a while, but it becomes a serious problem when you are getting angry regularly even in routine situations at home or in the office. When the anger becomes frequent and flares up at the slightest provocation, it is an indication that all is not well in your life. Frequent and uncontrolled anger is a symptom of a fragile state of mind, which gets manifested at the slightest unfavourable situation.”

Mind Angry Fragile Feel Provocation Situations Frequent Regularly Manifested Unfavourable

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“Our mind is working all the time with two goals in sight: first is to minimise the pain and the second is to maximise the happiness. In its attempt to achieve its twin objectives, it is always moving back and forth in the three dimensions of time so that it can heal the pain and bring happiness to the present.”

Happiness Goals Objectives Dimensions Present Minimise

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“A powerful person is hated by less-powerful people. Power often ends up becoming the greatest source of misery for many people.”

Source Powerful Person Many People Less Powerful

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“An unfortunate reality is that most people are unhappy most of the time. Unhappiness is so widely pervasive in the modern world that if you tell someone that you are happy, people are unlikely to believe you. It is because we have stopped accepting that it is possible to achieve happiness”

Time Accepting Happyness Pervasive

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“The right way to discover your potential is to experiment in life as much as possible. When you experiment, you will either succeed or fail. Either way you learn something about yourself and the world and become wiser. Every experiment proves something. If it does not prove what you intended originally, it proves something else.”

Succeed Prove Potential Wiser Discover Experiment Intended

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“When your mind is dwelling on a past event, it is not for giving you pain in the present, but it is actually reminding you of an unsolved matter or an uncared wound that needs to be attended to, to get relief from the pain. Instead of ignoring that pain, it would be better if you accept it and find a way to reduce it by taking a suitable action.”

Pain Dwelling Reminding Unsolved Past Event Uncared

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“A good doctor should not avoid performing surgery or prescribing a bitter pill if it is in the interest of the patient. Similarly, a wise person must not avoid taking unpleasant and difficult decisions, if they are in the interest of the people and the organisation.”

Interest Wise Patient Surgery Prescribing Unpleasant

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“We have the mind and the consciousness of the universe. Due to our ignorance, we see the world and our own selves divided and separated into two units. A truly wise person sees the entire world in the self and the self in the world.”

Consciousness Ignorance Divided Wise Person Selves

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“When you understand the language of the faith of another person, you can connect with him not only intellectually but also emotionally. A common faith builds relationships and binds people.”

Faith Language Understand Connect Binds Builds Intellectually

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“A man who has mastered all the books in the world may still be ignorant if he fails to connect this bookish knowledge with the real world.”

Knowledge Books Ignorant Real World Mastered

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“Famous people lose their privacy and are always under public critique. The miseries and failures of famous men are much more saleable than their successes. People love to gossip when celebrities fall from grace and leaders are caught in scandals.”

Privacy Famous Celebrities Miseries Public Critique Saleable

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“The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.”

Happiness Spiritual Spirit Leadership Creativity Spiritual Intelligence

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“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously has the spiritual vision necessary to see the unseen spiritual world. One who knows both Matter and Spirit is thus the true knower, and is a spiritually intelligent being.”

Mystery Intelligence Spiritual Intelligence

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