"There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life."

Source : Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Jawaharlal Nehru

#Taken Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!'”
“The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.”
“I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.”

Source : Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.122, The Overlook Press
“Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.”
“Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.”
“Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.”
“To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.”

Source : John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.154, Ballantine Books
“Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.”

"There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life."

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