Mother Teresa

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Title:                 Mother Teresa Sketch 

Created By:      Divyesh Lappawala

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Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic nun who started the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with people. For over forty years, she took care of needs of those without money, those who were sick, those without parents, and those dying in Calcutta (Kolkata), guided in part by the ideals of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious  congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counseling programmes , orphanages; and schools. Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor".

In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood, giving her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before she can be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was admired by many; in 1999, a poll of Americans ranked her first in Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. (Reference)


Mother Teresa Quotes:

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We 

must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Peace begins with a smile.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.


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Martin Luther King, Jr. - The Activist and African - American Leader

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Title:                   Martin Luther King, Jr. -  The Activist And African - American Leader 

Created By:      Divyesh Lappawala

Medium:            Pencil (Black), 6H,4B,4B,Charcoal

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Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on 15th January, 1929. Both his father and grandfather were Baptist preachers who had been actively involved in the civil rights movement.

King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. After considering careers in medicine and law, he entered the ministry. While studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, King heard a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India.
Over the next few months King read several books on the ideas of Gandhi, and eventually became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. He was particularly struck by Gandhi's words: "Through our pain we will make them see their injustice". King was also influenced by Henry David Thoreau and his theories on how to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social change.

After his marriage to Coretta Scott, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church inMontgomery, Alabama. In Montgomery, like most towns in the Deep South, buses were segregated. On 1st December, 1955, Rosa Parks, a middle-aged tailor's assistant, who was tired after a hard day's work, refused to give up her seat to a white man.

After the arrest of Rosa Parks, King and his friends, Ralph David Abernathy, Edgar Nixon, and Bayard Rustinhelped organize protests against bus segregation. It was decided that black people in Montgomery would refuse to use the buses until passengers were completely integrated. King was arrested and his house was fire-bombed. Others involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott also suffered from harassment and intimidation, but the protest continued.

For thirteen months the 17,000 black people in Montgomery walked to work or obtained lifts from the small car-owning black population of the city. Eventually, the loss of revenue and a decision by the Supreme Court forced the Montgomery Bus Company to accept integration. and the boycott came to an end on 20th December, 1956. (Reference)


Martin Luther King Jr Quotes:


The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.


Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.


Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.


The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.


We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. 

When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.


An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.


He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. 

A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.


Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated  individuals.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Seeing is not always believing.

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Swami Vivekananda - A Spiritual Genius

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Title:                   Swami Vivekananda - A Spiritual Genius

Created By:      Divyesh Lappawala

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A spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power, Vivekananda crammed immense labor and achievement into his short life, 1863-1902. Born in the Datta family of Kolkata, the youthful Vivekananda embraced the agnostic philosophies of the Western mind along with the worship of science. (Reference)

Swami Vivekanand's Quotes:


When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. 


Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. 

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. 


All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. 

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. 

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. 

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. Therefore, make your own future.


Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

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Albert Einstein

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Title:                   Albert Einstein

Created By:      Divyesh Lappawala

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Albert Einstein born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.(Reference)


Albert Einstein's Quotes:

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. 

Imagination is more important than knowledge. 

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. 

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.   

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. 

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. 

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. 

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. 

A question that sometimes drives me lazy: am I or are the others crazy?

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Title:                 Mahatma Gandhi

Created By::  Divyesh Lappawala

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. (reference)

Mahatma Gandhi's Quotes:


It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. 

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. 

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. 

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. 

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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Sourav Ganguly - Former Indian Cricketer

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Name: Sourav Ganguly - Former Indian Cricketer

Artist:  Divyesh Lappawala

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Sourav Ganguly and captain of the Indian national cricket team. Presently he is cricket commentator and President of Editorial Board with Wisden India.