Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 53

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed
Idries Shah
Education has enhanced my wisdom. Simplicity and humility will not allow me to call myself wise.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Life Sucks. True, but it depends what you let it suck out of you – Pain or Fun!
Yatin Patel
You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.
Debasish Mridha
It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
Idries Shah
The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.
Sri Amma Bhagwan
It may take us years and years to find our true calling in life. But one fine day, we eventually do find it! Till then make merry, laugh, fight, dance and enjoy the craziness...
Avijeet Das
Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.
Abhijit Naskar
You are who you think you are.
Debasish Mridha
Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes.
Amit Kalantri
Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.
Idries Shah
Don’t waste your life trying to fill up a hollow or a hollow be filled up because it not only makes your life shallow but your conscious hollow.
Amit Abraham
You must abolish your slavery yourselves. Do not depend for its abolition upon god or a superman. Remember that it is not enough that a people are numerically in the majority. They must be always watchful, strong and self-respecting to attain and maintain success.We must shape our course ourselves and by ourselves.
B.R. Ambedkar
Morning sunrise wakes me upwith rays of hope.Clouds of fear can hide the sunbut not for long.If rays of hope are strongand patience is a song,then hope will bloom andrain will bring a rainbow.
Debasish Mridha
With time one ages, and with age one comes closer to their end. With time one builds a family, a house, a name and with age one learns to live without them.
Mrinalini Mitra
No one "deserves" success; it is either earned with hard work or lost to the hands of fate.
Sanhita Baruah
Our children need to assimilate the wonder that is India when they are young, so that they imbibe the principles of our founding fathers and continue to build this great nation.
Shallu Jindal
The best investment for poverty elimination is education.
Debasish Mridha
Every time I see you, I have to admit that rest of us are more uglier than I thought.
Amit Kalantri
Let your feelings dream, dreams act, actions speak.
Vikrmn
It was the first time in months that somebody was explaining what was happening to me and assuring me that it was okay. It was the first time in months that somebody was talking to me like I mattered.It was the first time in months that I was being assured that I need not feel guilty for something that was out of my control.
Preeti Shenoy
Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.
Amit Ray
I am the king of kingsO Sheikh! Not naked like you, I love madness, dynamism, but I am not distraughtAn infidel, an idolator, I am not one of the pious. I am going towards the mosqueBut I am not a Muslim.
Sarmad Shaheed
Your path should be lighted with love and trust, your purpose should be clear, and your goal should be the light post.
Debasish Mridha
You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.
Amit Kalantri
Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation.
Debasish Mridha
Make me strong. Not to be superior to others. To fight my greatest ennemy. Myself.
Kalki
Our love is the reason romance was created.
Faraaz Kazi
I do what my Heart says and I fucking don't care what others think about it.
Mohith Agadi
Mindfulness improves your capacity for self-discovery and empowerment.
Amit Ray
If you want to do something—you can do it! You just have to be focused and persistent.
Debasish Mridha
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
Swami Satchidananda
Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing
Raja Rao
What is serious in laughing, worrying, grieving, mourning, concerning about anything which is temporary? Well, it is funny, actually, when you know life isn't immortal.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.
Amit Ray
Get lost in love to find the ecstasy of love.
Debasish Mridha
One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?
Dada Bhagwan
You need to take the chance because you cannot read the thoughts of people, because you do not want to regret when you grow old, because life is short and time is fleeting, because arousing conflict works at times, because sometimes it’s the only way, the absolute option, because sometimes it’s just necessary.
Chirag Tulsiani
Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future.
Vishwas Chavan
The grand prize in us versus them is that somebody gets to feel special for a while. The grand prize in the game of unity is that everyone gets to feel special forever.
Deepak Chopra
Dream more to live more.
Debasish Mridha
We have to be open to love to feel happiness and joy.
Debasish Mridha
I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors.
Debasish Mridha
Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)
Faraaz Kazi
The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that ‘I died’. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle.
Dada Bhagwan
A smile is the best makeup that can change your looks and your heart.
Debasish Mridha
She saw him like he was the only star in the whole damn sky. Like he was the only bridge between her sanity and madness.
Akshay Vasu
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?
Arundhati Roy
Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one’s own Soul, one doesn’t need the support from the material world. ‘He’ will then become independent [support-free].
Dada Bhagwan
Any given day is a second chance, after yesterday. Make the best of it today.
Fakeer Ishavardas
All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
Give away everything—even your heart, soul, and mind. Nothing is yours. Keep your experiences and your memories. Those are yours and they make you who you are.
Debasish Mridha
Even as I took a long, hard look at some of the obvious downsides (Q: 'What are the three things keeping India down? A: Corruption, corruption and corruption.'), I still felt the upsides (Q: 'What is so fantastic about the India story? A: People, people and people.') tilted the scales in our favor.
Shobhaa Dé
When you anxiously await to emerge from deep darkness, you will realize the beauty of light.
Debasish Mridha
Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.
Arundhati Roy
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!
Aravind Adiga
An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.
Akhil Sharma
Being happy on seeing others happy is happiness multiplied.
Tapan Ghosh
Happiness is when you're content with what you have and appreciate what you get with gratitude.
Debasish Mridha