Morarji Desai - Life Quotes

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One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life

Morarji Desai
To live a life of truth one has to suffer, but must suffer cheerfully

Morarji Desai
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Morarji Desai
The experience that I have, I think very few have. I've been in public life for 50 or 60 years. With this experience, a person acquires a deeper insight into life. And, if I say that and they can't give a reply, they merely say I am out of place.

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In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

Morarji Desai
Fate gets you into positions of power. Life takes you there. I only do my duty and service to the people. I take all conditions as they come cheerfully and do my duty.

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Unless morality comes to public life, politics will remain what it is all over the world. My only interest in remaining in politics is to bring in morality. I've chosen the path of action and bhakti.

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I receive letters from people who've been cured with the 'urine-therapy'…. Several years ago, a man called Lawrence Armstrong was suffering from TB. One day, he was reading the psalms from the Bible, he found the passage, 'Drink from your own cistern when you're in trouble.' He wondered what it meant. It struck him that it was his own urine. And, he saw in the veterinary hospitals some animals given their own urine by his doctor friend. Nature has provided its own cures. What happens to the birds and animals in the forest? For 45 days, he consumed all the urine he passed and at the end of it, he was a young man. Then he wrote a book, "Waters of Life".

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Is any serious crime committed without drinking? You see, if drinking were ruining only the man himself, then it wouldn't matter so much. But, why have we introduced it [prohibition] in the constitution? It's a crime against society as well. Take the case of ending your own life. Life is to live, therefore we've to discourage suicide. That doesn't mean you can't actually stop suicide, nobody can stop the actual act. Therefore, it's only the unsuccessful attempt which is an offence.

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I can't say I have shed [ego] it completely. I have certainly given it up, up to 95 per cent. I believe until and unless I give up my ego, I can't realise God. My whole ambition in life is to realise God or truth, whatever you may want to call it. Do you believe in God? It's a fashion not to believe in God.

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