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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Faith & Religion Kindness

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

— Rabindranath Tagore
Faith & Religion Hope

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

— Swami Vivekananda
Self & Identity Faith & Religion

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul.

— Jawaharlal Nehru
Faith & Religion Peace

If we hurt others by our tongue, or by our hands, in thought, word, or deed, it is a sin.

— Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Faith & Religion Wisdom

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

— Buddha
Faith & Religion Peace

The soul is not born, and it does not die.

— Bhagavad Gita
Faith & Religion Wisdom

There is neither this world, nor the world beyond, nor happiness for the one who doubts.

— Bhagavad Gita
Faith & Religion

There is no god higher than truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth Faith & Religion

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

— Rabindranath Tagore
Faith & Religion Death & Loss

जब मैं था तब हरि नहीं, अब हरि हैं मैं नाहिं। सब अँधियारा मिट गया, जब दीपक देख्या माहिं।

— कबीर Hindi
Self & Identity Faith & Religion

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

— Terry Pratchett
Humor Faith & Religion

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

— Dalai Lama XIV
Faith & Religion Kindness

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

— Mark Twain
Humor Philosophy Faith & Religion

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

— Roy T. Bennett
Self & Identity Inspirational Life Faith & Religion Positive Thinking

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.