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“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”

Art Humanity Cities Poverty Creativity Land Civilization India Enormous Plenty Uplifting Daily Life Village Magnificent Sparkle

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Years Art States Able Christ Perfect Healing Lord Five Influence Hundred India Ancient Efficient Physicians Surgery Abolish Present Day Ancient India Lord Buddha

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.”

Art Past Names Individual Common Enlightenment Connections India Claims Historical Martial Arts Rama Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.”

People Art Earth Alive Tradition India Eternity Western Immortality Village Museums Pointless Oral Tradition

Book:Home to India

Source: Home to India

“However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!”

Thinking Needs May Art Life Is Humanity Technology Impossible India Innovation Combination Art Of Living

Author:Narendra Modi

“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.”

Writing Firsts Wells Art Reality Young Novel Growing Up Growing College India Filled Trippy

Author:Karan Bajaj

“I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.”

Want Art Two Self Country Dream Pleasure Discovery Letters India Devotion Self Discovery Coincidence Indonesia Voyages Admitting

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.”

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.”

Art Law Culture House Building Ethics Art Is Aspect India Medicine Practicals Hinduism Surgery Cosmology Aspects Of Life Science Religion Encyclopedia Vedas Meteorology Culture Religion

Author:William James