Bal Gangadhar Quotes

#1. Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Mortimer Adler

#2. Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God,

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#3. When you get rid of old material, you push yourself further and come up with something better.

Austin Kleon

#4. You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

Benny Hinn

#5. The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

Annie Lennox

#6. If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#7. It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#8. The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#9. The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#10. Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#11. She spoke Basque, which is a language which rarely makes any impression upon the brains of any other race, so that a man may hear it as often and as long as he likes, but never afterwards be able to recall a single syllable of it.

Susanna Clarke

#12. After all, our Killers are our ... Brothers!!??

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#13. What kind of a disease is this that, like leprosy, is amputating our families, extremity by extremity, limb by limb? What kind of a disease is this that is taking away our words, cloaking us with silence, numbing us with fear? Eeh, Sister, you tell me.

Makuchi

#14. One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

Aleksandar Hemon

#15. I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?

Brian Celio

#16. I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

Alice Munro

#17. Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

Bal Gangadhar Tilak