Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 65

My family’s tradition of ‘matching-matching’ names is so obsessive, it’s against the order of nature. When my uncles Anil and Anant married, they took advantage of a heinous custom in Marathi weddings. After the pheras, a dish of uncooked rice is placed before the newlyweds, and whatever name the husband chooses to write in the rice becomes the new name of his wife.Because marriage in our culture is akin to buying a puppy at a pet shop and saying, ‘I am your new owner, and I shall call you Flu y.’So Anil Adarkar brought home Asha Adarkar (née Kiran), and Anant Adarkar brought home Anita Adarkar (née Geeta). And to complete this picture of divine perfection they named their children Aniket, and Ashwini and Ashleysha, respectively.
Nikita Deshpande
The fire of kindness can melt the most hateful heart.
Debasish Mridha
If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost – if your religion is lost, nothing is lost – if your ethnicity is lost, nothing is lost – but if your character is lost, then you are more lost than Donald Trump.
Abhijit Naskar
The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself.
Osho
Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.
Vijay Kedia
you are my life... and my life is yours..
boddu subbarao
Naughtiness is a diamond of childhood.
Aabid Surti
The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one’s own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, ‘I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma).
Dada Bhagwan
Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.
Debasish Mridha
As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.
Arundhati Roy
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Show some mercy to your 'time', don't always waste it.
Amit Kalantri
Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.
Abhijit Naskar
Truth is different at different stages of wisdom and awareness.
Debasish Mridha
Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never
Debasish Mridha
I was coming together...limb by limb, after being brokenfor an infinity.
Sanober Khan
The most important lesson we'd ever learn in life is that everyone is different and if we accept this for a fact and let them be, they can surprise us with what they can do and achieve.If others thought like us, acted like us and behaved like us, we'd all be xerox copies of each other and the monumental success we've achieved as a race (human race) would never have been possible.
Rupali Rajopadhye Rotti
Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware
Radhe Maa
You see your reflections in thoughts not things.
Debasish Mridha
Technology is either a curse or a blessing depends on how we use it.
Harrish Sairaman
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Mother Teresa
No one in this world is in a position to interfere with you. Therefore, do not find fault with the world; the fault is only yours. These are the echoes of interferences that you had caused. Had you not interfered, there would be no echoes that would hit you.
Dada Bhagwan
So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.
Sri Yukteswar Swami
It is called understanding when one accepts other’s talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?
Dada Bhagwan
Good and evil keep happening in this world. It just takes a little longer for us to take the bad in our stride. And just when we think we've come to terms with bad, we're shocked to be haunted by that one query whose answer is ever as elusive - why on earth did it have to happen to me ?
Tuhin A. Sinha
When your heart is dancing with love, you are with God, and that is your love.
Debasish Mridha
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
Ravi Zacharias
Your attitude reflects your inner feelings.
Debasish Mridha
I never lose in any argument, because I always make sure that my opponent wins.
Debasish Mridha
I sometimes wonder how powerful are those Fortune 500 CEOs who can can’t even change the way that list looks (leave aside how the world looks). And, I wonder what message do we send to our young girls, in classrooms across the world, who work as hard as our young boys but see only 20 CEOs out of those 500 who look like them.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
The present presses automatically on you. The future does not. To attend to the future requires bandwidth, which scarcity taxes. When scarcity taxes our bandwidth, we become even more focused on the here and now. We need cognitive resources to gauge future needs, and we need executive control to resist present temptations. As it taxes our bandwidth, scarcity focuses on the present, and leads us to borrow.
Sendhil Mullainathan
The art is in evolving to such a receptive consciousness, which is aligned to enjoyment and fruition in both ways – expecting and planning the randomizations for ‘specific’ joys as well as designing joys in ‘generic’ randomizations. True love lands you in a consciousness, which relishes the joys of this rainbowish dualism best.
Santosh Jha
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.
Amit Ray
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
Rabindranath Tagore
Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.
Abhijit Naskar
It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
Idries Shah
When can one’s soul acknowledge (accept)? When one has an ‘open mind’. This [Akram Vignan] is not something one has to keep faith in. Faith should arise automatically. Regardless of whether I rebuke or scold you, even then faith should come within you.
Dada Bhagwan
Entertainment Law is not as Entertaining as Entertainment
Kalyan C. Kankanala
And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a cattle-bell and began to ring it, and they cried, 'With them, brothers, with them!' and they leaped and they ducked and they came down to lie beside us, and we shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai! Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!
Raja Rao
Have a GOAL to keep the following 5-‘H’ OUT of your lifeH – HarassH – HamperH – HurtH – HarmH – HinderTo Ensure H=Happiness Prevails forever!
Sujit Lalwani
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
Idries Shah
A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.
Debasish Mridha
You are always attracted towards what you can't be or what you are not or what you will never be.If you don't know who you are, just know who you aren't. Simple Introspection.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness
Rajasaraswathii
The bowl is warmer than the soup.
Idries Shah
Living for the Self [the Soul] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but demerit karma (you bind demerit karma).
Dada Bhagwan
Be a butterfly and always look for kindness, softness and beauties.
Debasish Mridha
Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?
Mīrābāī
The cure for everything, is not a medicine, but the pure kindness of acompassionate heart.
Debasish Mridha
Meditation' an exercise to keep positive things in mind by getting rid of the negatives
Samar Sudha
Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part of you that you start dreading.
Heena Rathore P.
Understanding RELATIONSHIPS – If I have something to share, however, I didn’t share it with you because you didn’t ask me. It means I DON’T TRUST YOU. Even if you didn’t ask me, I still shared it with you, giving my trust to you. However, you shared it with the entire world. It means YOU ARE UNTRUSTWORTHY. I know what you know, however, when I asked you, you lied to me. It means YOU ARE DISHONEST.LOVE and AFFECTION are two essential elements of HUMAN RELATIONSHIP. However, whether you deserve my LOVE and AFFECTION or not is based on your TRUSTWORTHINESS and HONESTY.
Sanjeev Himachali
Don’t try to smell the flowers without planting them.
Debasish Mridha
Today's miseries could be tomorrow's loveful memories.
Debasish Mridha
There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.
Pawan Mishra
Curiosity, boldness, and persistence help you to be a success.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Don’t go to sleep to dream. Wake up and dream.
Debasish Mridha
What is the nature of life?Life is lines of dominoes falling.One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Choose to be in love!
Debasish Mridha
My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.
Ashwin Sanghi