Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 304

Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy.
Debasish Mridha
He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.
V.S. Ramachandran
Some people will hate you for pursuing what you love. Make sure you don't love them more.
Harsh Snehanshu
Even love becomes a cause of hatred, if stars are not in favour of a man.
Girdhar Joshi
I'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great power'. What would it mean, I'd asked myself, to the lives of working journalists, salaried technocrats and so on if India achieved 'great power status'? What were the images evoked by this tag?Now, walking through this echoing old palace, looking at the pictures in the corridors, this aspiration took on, for the first time, the contours of an imagined reality. This is what the nuclearists wanted: to sign treaties, to be pictured with the world's powerful, to hang portraits on their walls, to become ancestors. On the bomb they had pinned their hopes of bringing it all back.
Amitav Ghosh
The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical.
Debasish Mridha
With sense of achievement comes satisfaction… and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life.
Girdhar Joshi
Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.
Abhijit Naskar
If I tell you I am upset about everything that's going on around me, you will probably ask me why, half listening, half wandering away in your own train of thoughts...If I tell you I am happy, you will probably not bother to know why, congratulating me and forgetting..I should rather tell you I am fine, satisfied, you will probably tell me your own issues then, for which I will be all ears
Sanhita Baruah
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic.
Debasish Mridha
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)
Swami Satchidananda
To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is very soft but it creates the hardest bond.
Debasish Mridha
I love foolish people because I am not enough of a fool to not love them.
Debasish Mridha
Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest.
Debasish Mridha
If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.
Fakeer Ishavardas
If someone’s beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Nothing else can explain love except love.
Debasish Mridha
Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.
Girish Kohli
TRUST"'A soft thread, that could broken while checking it
Samar Sudha
We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures of the earth. Born with legs, not wings, legs that root us to the earth, and hands that allow us to build our homes, hands that bind us to our loved ones within those homes. The glamour, the adrenaline rush, the true adventure, is here, within these homes. The wars, the detente, the coups, the peace treaties, the celebrations, the mournings, the hunger, the sating, all here.
Thrity Umrigar
The two of them kept an eye open for every tree or temple we passed by, and turned to me for a reaction of piety which I gave them, of course, and with growing elaborateness: first just touching my eye, then my neck, then my clavicle, and even my nipples.  They were convinced I was the most religious servant on earth.
Aravind Adiga
When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.
Amit Kalantri
Sometimes when you are falling down you grow wings to fly.
Debasish Mridha
Faith is the function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly.
Debasish Mridha
I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.
Mahatma Gandhi
The more you hide, the higher the walls around you gets. The more you cry in silence, the thicker it becomes.
Akshay Vasu
Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.
Debasish Mridha
Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.
Salman Rushdie
When I was earning, saving, and spending, I felt poor. When I started to give away some of my earning for good purposes, abundance filled my heart.
Debasish Mridha
An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.
Debasish Mridha
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
Amit Kalantri
Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.
Idries Shah
A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.
Abhijit Naskar
Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life.
Debasish Mridha
Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a lightning technique. Nasrudin stepped out of the crowd: 'Very well, teach me – now.' The Fakir touched the Mulla's forehead, and said: 'Now go home immediately and read a book.' Half an our later Nasrudin was back in the market-place, clutching a book. The Fakir had gone on his way. 'Can you read now, Mulla?' the people asked him. 'Yes, I can read – but that is not the point. Where is that charlatan?' 'How can he be a charlatan if he has caused you to read without learning?' 'Because this book, which is authoritative, says: “All Fakirs are frauds”.
Idries Shah
In India they tell a fable about this: There was once a great devotee of Vishnu who prayed night and day to see his God. One night his wish was granted and Vishnu appeared to him. Falling on his knees, the devotee cried out, "I will do anything for you, my Lord, just ask.""How about a drink of water?" Vishnu replied.Although surprised by the request, the devotee immediately ran to the river as fast as his legs could carry him. When he got there and knelt to dip up some water, he saw a beautiful woman standing on an island in the middle of the river. The devotee fell madly in love on the spot. He grabbed a boat and rowed over to her. She responded to him, and the two were married. They had children in a house on the island; the devotee grew rich and old plying his trade as a merchant. Many years later, a typhoon came along and devastated the island. The merchant was swept away in the storm. He nearly drowned but regained consciousness on the very spot where he had once begged to see God. His whole life, including his house, wife, and children, seemed never to have happened.Suddenly he looked over his shoulder, only to see Vishnu standing there in all his radiance."Well," Vishnu said, "did you find me a glass of water?
Deepak Chopra
Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.
Priya Ardis
No business can be a great success without a great purpose.
Debasish Mridha
God says that, ‘Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.’ Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.
Dada Bhagwan
Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?
Dada Bhagwan
We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.
Amit Kalantri
Life is a journey of astonishing beauty, and this is what makes life worth living.
Debasish Mridha
I wait, wait to hear your silent footsteps. I wait, wait to caress your distant voice.I wait, wait to embrace myself in you.
Debatrayee Banerjee
Humans are the smallest organs of the human body.
Shinjini Bhattacharjee
Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
Idries Shah
The joy of life is in new creations, new adventures, and new feelings.
Debasish Mridha
People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.
Amit Kalantri
Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.
Deepak Chopra
Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword,Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck.
Guru Gobind Singh
And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.
Thrity Umrigar
If life gives you nuts then be a nut cracker.
Vikrmn
All life is One Life.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Love someone not because of what they have, love them because of what they are.
Debasish Mridha
We are not killing, we are saving.......a billion dreams.
Sumit Agarwal
Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.
Vijay Kedia
My truth could be very different than your truth.
Debasish Mridha
Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it impressed me too. Maybe wizard school wasn’t going to be as lame as I had thought.“All of your schedules and assignments will be done on these,” Marilynn explained. “The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.
Priya Ardis