Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 127

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?
Sonal Panse
This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.
Salman Rushdie
Yes, you are right. I lost my home, my mother, my identity. I lost it. Not you, Inspector Imandar. I did. They I don't understand, what did you lose? What did you lose that you hate them so much?
Sanchit Gupta
And in that vastness, it felt like every memory existed only to disappear one day.
Vatsal Surti
What should I call you? A friend, a stranger, or a lover? I remember the day you laid your eyes on me the first time. There was just something unwavering about that moment. It wasn’t peaceful or absolute. It was definite. Something that was bound to happen. It was like as if our souls were waiting for us to collide. And oh we did! We collided like meteors, giving this universe a spectacular view. From my 2 am thought that used to keep me up at night, you soon became my 2 am call. From an almost stranger to my skin, you became a part of me. But just like every collision, ours also had to end in destruction. The 2 am call soon became a 2 am thought. The thought still keeps me up at night, but not for the same reasons. From strangers to lovers and lovers to strangers again, our journey hasn’t been ordinary. Someone asked me about you today and for a moment, I didn’t know what to call you. Who are you to me now? A friend – no. Definitely not a lover. I guess, you and I – we are just strangers with memories.
Bhavya Kaushik
You were the colors to my monochrome life. My morning light and my midnight dream. Flawed, yet whole. You used to think that you weren’t enough – but you were enough for me. You were my first everything. My fire. My tornado. You were the eye of my storm. The moment I saw you, I knew you were going to destroy my life. But I let it happen. There was just something magical and outlandish about playing with fire that I couldn’t resist. I wanted to be as close as I could to the idea of destroying myself. It didn’t happen out of the blue. Day by day – moment by moment, I started to lose myself. With every kiss, you took away a part of me. Until one day, I woke up and I wasn’t myself anymore. I never thought that a disaster could be so damn beautiful. I don’t regret it. But I regret waking up next to an empty bed and how unceremoniously you left when the damage was done. I saw your picture today, holding someone else’s hand. And it made me realize that some disasters don’t make a sound. Not every destruction stands still. Some of them might walk right past you.
Bhavya Kaushik
It was a second. A blink. The flap of a bird's wing, the moment it takes to say hello, or goodbye. So quickly that it made me think of all the insignificant seconds that we throw away. And all the seconds that we don't too. The seconds that we hold on to, that we return to... I considered the fact that all it takes is a second for life to completely change.
Aditi Khorana
Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles upon their husbands’ genitalia, a sufficiency of children upon whose legitimacy the British Government had cast its ever-reasonable doubts – mingling with the remnants of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother-tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home.
Salman Rushdie
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
Vikram Seth
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence...
Rohinton Mistry
Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...
Sanhita Baruah
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come only when one is able to forgive even those who have committed barbaric acts. If Angulimala is capable of renouncing violence, then tell me, your Majesty: is your civilized society also capable of being truly civilized and renouncing violence?
Satish Kumar
People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them.
Amit Kalantri
Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.
Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
Always be kind. Every one needs it. Practice forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.
Debasish Mridha
Fill your heart with kindness and forgiveness, there will be no stress, anger, or bitterness.
Debasish Mridha
The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.
Debasish Mridha
War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.
Debasish Mridha
Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Change is inevitable, so accept it.Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.Love is abundant, so spread it.Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.Life is for living, so live it.
Debasish Mridha
Hate destroys a bridge but forgiveness rebuilds it.
Debasish Mridha
Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on everything, on a short-story they’d both read, whose theme was precisely the nature of the unforgivable. Title and author eluded him, but the story came back vividly. A man and a woman had been intimate friends (never lovers) for all their adult lives. On his twenty-first birthday (they were both poor at the time) she had given him, as a joke, the most horrible, cheap glass vase she could find, in colours a garish parody of Venetian gaiety. Twenty years later, when they were both successful and greying, she visited his home and quarrelled with him over his treatment of a mutual friend. In the course of the quarrel her eye fell upon the old vase, which he still kept in pride of place on his sitting-room mantelpiece, and, without pausing in her tirade, she swept it to the floor, crushing it beyond hope of repair. He never spoke to her again; when she died, half a century later, he refused to visit her deathbed or attend her funeral, even though messengers were sent to tell him that these were her dearest wishes. ‘Tell her,’ he said to the emissaries, 'that she never knew how much I valued what she broke.’ The emissaries argued, pleaded, raged. If she had not known how much meaning he had invested in the trifle, how could she in all fairness be blamed? And had she not made countless attempts, over the years, to apologize and atone? And she was dying, for heaven’s sake; could not this ancient, childish rift be healed at last? They had lost a lifetime’s friendship; could they not even say goodbye? 'No,’ said the unforgiving man. – 'Really because of the vase? Or are you concealing some other, darker matter?’ – 'It was the vase,’ he answered, 'the vase, and nothing but.’ Pamela thought the man petty and cruel, but Chamcha had even then appreciated the curious privacy, the inexplicable inwardness of the issue. 'Nobody can judge an internal injury,’ he had said, 'by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.
Salman Rushdie
You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others.
Debasish Mridha
When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.
Debasish Mridha
To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.
Debasish Mridha
The best revenge is true forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
Speak with silence, listen with heart, and forgive with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.
Debasish Mridha
If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?
Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past.
Debasish Mridha
To forgive others, you must forgive yourself first.
Debasish Mridha
So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life.
Debasish Mridha
If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? If you can’t forgive yourself, how can you forgive others?
Debasish Mridha
Have compassion and forgive the mistakes of others. If you cannot forgive ignore but never hate them, because hatred will always lead to destruction.
Alok Jagawat
Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nāgārjuna
How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?
Nilesh Rathod
If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: “I did not deserve God’s forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.
Paul Silway
Forgive because it makes you feel good.
Deepak Chopra
Your ability to forgive and let go is the biggest evidence of core strength
Harrish Sairaman
A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.
Kirtida Gautam
How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Salman Rushdie
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Gautama Buddha
These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.
Mother Teresa
Sweet be the glanceswe exchange,Our faces showing true concord;Enshrine me in your heart and let one spiritdwell within us.
Atharva Veda 7.36
There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith
Swetha Dhanagari
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.
Mother Teresa
Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
Within the moment of now, there is presence of ever there, As It is;, Invisible; Nothingness; of Still and silent awareness; in substratum; witnessing itself which U in real R...It has nothing to do with Your mind, Your body appearance and Your world...Wisdom is to let it recognize and and realize itself...Often in Ignorance of IT, ignorant start believing "In the Moment", "As It Is" words, which point towards IT (awareness), ignorantly for the appearing body, appearing mind and appearing creation...Be Happy and Keep Smiling...
Satish Kumar
On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.
Sheeja Jose
Proving one’s innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto fora honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dearones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have yourfreedom.
Sheeja Jose
As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.
Dada Bhagwan
Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).
Dada Bhagwan
Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.
Dada Bhagwan