“World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.” KnowsMenWorldFeelsPersonsLightAmericaTermNaturalCreativePrideCitizensUniversalIndiaEnglandCurrentsLocalsHappy LifeConsideringExpansionScopeLimitlessAllegianceHomelandPhilippinesWorld Citizen Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.” PeopleHumansStillsSelfLightAgeLastsFormCreativeSourceHigherIndiaWestAncientSupremeAwakeRepeatsCyclesDoomedLiftingDharmaSuccess And FailurePupilsRecoveringDocileShakti Author:Sri Aurobindo
“India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.” LightNightHouseCenturyRevolutionIndiaLaysSpeedDigitalCandleEvery NightGangCablesDiggingFiberTrenchesLaborersDigital Revolution Author:Arundhati Roy
“Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.” LifeLightValuesHonorDaughterIndiaTonightCandleOur DaughterSingh Author:Meryl Streep
“It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.” KnowsMenHumansMaySaidLightEarthSimpleWalksFiveCenturyMountainIndiaMiles21st CenturySimple Man Author:Ram Dass
“Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.” HelpingHomeLightMotivationPoorProductsIndiaFabricLamps Author:Narendra Modi
“Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.” HomeLightPoorWasteEmpowermentIndiaElectricityLamps Author:Narendra Modi
“India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.” ReasonLightAgeLostSawsIgnoranceIndiaInsightSoleSri LankaAge Of ReasonExternalities Author:Sri Aurobindo
“There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.” LightDarkSkinsIndiaNotionAttractiveDisturbing Author:Freida Pinto
“Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"” FeelsPersonsHandsLightReadingOpportunityNumbersSpecialCenturyIndiaIndependenceSoldierChinaIndianBordersThrownChaptersIndependence DayIndian Independence Day Author:Hu Shih
“There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.” WayDifferentPlayMomentsBodyRealityLightFormJoyOpportunityMaterialsSkinsIndiaRegardPainterAestheticAbstractionBounceNewnessOpportunities To LearnSri LankaDifferent RealitiesSub Saharan Africa Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."” WayLightIndiaFoundationMereDeeperBritainJapanPassports Author:Pico Iyer
“There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.” EndsLightRunningIndiaTrainTunnelsLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:Navjot Singh Sidhu
“I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.” LightWiseIndiaTheatre Author:Vir Das
“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.” PeopleThinkingMenWayYearsMatterFactsLightUsedMillionsTechnologyWiseCircumstancesConceptsDiscoveryConcernedIndiaPhilosopherAriseApplicationTechnologicalRelativityAstonishmentNew DiscoveriesLight Years Author:Alan Watts
“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.” FeelsShouldStoriesDreamLightDeathJoyGriefLandDyingCryYouthSorrowDiseaseEternalAnd LoveIndiaHearingBonesBreatheHeartacheInsultCriedSoarShatteringEvermoreLight And LoveEternal Light Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, “I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.”” PeopleIfsWorldWantPersonsHelpingLightWifeThirdsIndiaAbandonedComebackThird WorldProminentLeper Author:Gail Collins
“The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and a half months. While the other three Beatles went back to London to start the beginning of their Apple empire, George and I went to Madras for a week’s relaxation. I took this photograph of George one morning, as I thought the light on his face was lovely. I think this was the last time that I saw him looking so calm.” ThinkingTwoLightLastsFacesThreeHalfMorningStudySawsMeditationWeekMonthsIndiaPhotographCalmLondonLovelyIndianApplesEmpiresLast TimeInvitedRelaxationHimalayasMadras Author:Pattie Boyd