Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 13

Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!
Mallika Nawal
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
What is done cannot be undone,Knowing that, face it but do not run.
Rupansh Gupta
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.
Thrity Umrigar
…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
Virchand Gandhi
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
Virchand Gandhi
Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.
Shashi Tharoor
Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!
Salman Rushdie
She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn’t a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past.
Renita D'Silva
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.
Aravind Adiga
When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?
Chetan Bhagat
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.
Shashi Tharoor
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.
Shashi Tharoor
A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.
Debasish Mridha
Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.
Arundhati Roy
If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature
Anamika Mishra
Ego-less, in time, you will no longer be God-less.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Spiritual is criterion, where free will exists in plenty.
Gian Kumar
The Only God 'up there' is Unity of Everything, in Quintessence. Other fancies, gods and fairies are the nansy-pansies of simpletons, or is just plain-simple nonsense.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Just 'get' the 'One' in All. Then live accordingly. That's all.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Just get the 'One' in All. Then live accordingly. That's all.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Choosing battle is one thing, and quitting battle is cowardice and I can't imagine doing that
Rohit Gore
Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.
Girish Kohli
Stop battling with yourself. Be kind to yourself.
Anuranjita Kumar
Stop turning every others battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword.
Akshay Vasu
If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.
Debasish Mridha
In the name of forever, let's burn down our today and tomorrows.
Akshay Vasu
Open relating is transparent, godly, with a commitment of the heart, without expectancy and yet devotional; it is similar to what you have with God or Supreme Consciousness.
Vishwas Chavan
When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us.
Kamal Ravikant
You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.
Pawan Mishra
Thankfulness to God, if not followed by commitment to Obey Him, will tend to stop the continuous supply of God's blessings in our lives.
Santosh Thankachan
However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.
Jim Corbett
Got an idea to start", "Thinking to start" and "Making a commitment to start" is one aspect of life.Actually "Starting" what you truly want to do in life, is a completely different ball game.
Manoj Arora
Marriage is not a sales deal and you don't have to close it as fast as you can.
Swati Kumar
Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.
Swati Kumar
That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that.
Salman Rushdie
God never said that you will live an average or unfulfilled life. You and the people who programmed your mind ‘assumed’ your worth, ability and deservingness. You have the same brains and ability like the most successful ones have. Only the circumstances are different and I can assure you that your circumstances are not the worst.
Maddy Malhotra
Every major religion documents the fact that we ourselves have to take action to achieve whatever we desire. So why leave it on luck when your thoughts, beliefs and actions create your destiny?
Maddy Malhotra
I want to live my life to its fullest potential. I want to embrace my own purpose, however large or small it may be. I want to find my own Nehru moments and take positive steps toward becoming the person I am meant to be. The journey will undoubtedly be a winding one, filled with surprises and setbacks as well as gifts. But I'm ready to embrace it fully, wherever it may take me.
Mallika Chopra
What you have always believed in is the real you.
Tapan Ghosh
The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love.
Abhijit Naskar
Don’t look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, and films.
Girdhar Joshi
Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.
Debasish Mridha
She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame – a wedding gift – with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought, she lit the photo on fire. Ashes fell into the sink. Fire and vermilion. Ashes and blood. Her marriage from start to finish.
Meghna Pant
N O T H I N GI would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about. That can’t be done in Kashmir. It’s not sophisticated, what happens here. There’s too much blood for good literature.Q 1: Why is it not sophisticated?Q 2: What is the acceptable amount of blood for good literature?y
Arundhati Roy
In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest.
Arundhati Roy
We experience prosperity in our relationships as we learn to love, forgive, and receive love and forgiveness.
Paul Silway
Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He’s given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn’t strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.
Vivek Shanbhag
So high is my Lord’s palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love.
Kabir
When we talk of "exploring the mystical," we are not trying to dig into creation, because if you dig into creation, it will only get more complex. It will not bring clarity; it will only bring more complexity. That is why the yogis looked in a different direction. We looked inward. If you look inward, a different dimension opens up. Now instead of things getting more complex, you get to clarity. It is because of this that we say that those who look inward have a third eye. They see things that others cannot see. They have brought a new clarity to life.
Sadhguru
You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout.
Sadhguru
See, when we say a "spiritual seeker," unfortunately most people assume that he is God-oriented. A spiritual seeker is not God-oriented; if Devil is the chief of existence, he wants to know that. We want to know what is true; we are not interested in proving our belief systems, because we don't have any.
Sadhguru
I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.
Sadhguru
In his numerous works, especially in The Idealist View of Life and Eastern Religions and Western Thought, the great Eastern Philosopher, Professor Radhakrishnan, advocates the necessity for the revival of the deeply spiritual mystical experience which is the basis of all religions and which is expressed in a pure form in Hinduism. He says: “In spite of all appearances to the contrary, we discern in the present unrest the gradual dawning of a great light, a converging life-endeavour, a growing realisation that there is a secret spirit in which we are all one, and of which humanity is the highest vehicle on earth, and an increasing desire to live out this knowledge and establish a kingdom of spirit on earth.” (Eastern Religions and Western Thought, p. 33). “The different religions have now come together, and if they are not to continue in a state of conflict or competition, they must develop a spirit of comprehension which will break down prejudice and misunderstanding and bind them together as varied expressions of a single truth. Such a spirit characterised the development of Hinduism, which has not been interrupted for nearly fifty centuries.
Tirupattur Ramaseshayyer Venkatachala Murti
Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar, Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar. English Translation. Oh Khusrau, the river of love Runs in strange directions. One who jumps into it drowns, And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
As the river enters into the ocean,so my heart touches Thee.
Kabir
The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.
Sadhguru
Some people in your lifeTouch you so very deeplyThat you drown totally in that depth.
Amit Abraham