Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 71

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.
Salman Rushdie
Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story… such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time.
Girdhar Joshi
Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story.
Avijeet Das
A casket full of stories I presentFrom the ocean of my feelings and its moodSome bring with it a tempest of tearsSome make you sit and broodThere are a few pearls of optimism tooWhich are colourful and multi-hued!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite your seeming inability to tell it, know this..the story has chosen you and You are ready, so tell it or it’ll haunt you to the end of your days. Characters too! They will find you, drop anchor and before you know, they will speak through you, shaping their own narrative, their own unique destiny. Let go and allow them. You have no option but to be a channel for them. This joy of surrender can only be felt… never truly explained.
Nidhie Sharma
Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.
Nidhie Sharma
It is customary to have vampires in stories nowadays - they are quite the norm, just like wicked stepmothers used to be. Yes, vampires have sent wicked stepmothers into retirement homes, to brew cups of tea and tend to their arthritic knees.
Jane De Suza
Stories choose us, not the other way around.
Nidhie Sharma
The stories we are destined to tell find us.
Nidhie Sharma
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman Rushdie
What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
Salman Rushdie
My heart's gratitudeIs My life's plenitude.
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.
Sri Chinmoy
True gratitude can never comeFrom the mind.It has to flow from the heartTo the mind, vital and bodyUntil everything that we have and areIs a sea of gratitude.
Sri Chinmoy
If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.
Sri Chinmoy
The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?
Sri Chinmoy
The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude.
Sri Chinmoy
His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
Arundhati Roy
Take note and give thanks for all the good things present in your life.
Amey Hegde
If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.
Maddy Malhotra
Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.
Ankala V Subbarao
Once a day, stop whatever you are doing and notice 2 things that you are grateful for in your situation or circumstance and in your physical space. Make a habit of this and truly expand your heart to receiving more to be grateful for. There is more than enough reason to feel grateful always; acknowledge that and where possible, give thanks for it.
Malti Bhojwani
It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart. —Unknown
Malti Bhojwani
Happiness is the little moments of joy you give yourself every single day, living a life in con stant pursuit of happy and joyous moments.
Malti Bhojwani
Sincere, heartfelt appreciation is pure love, and is the strongest message to the Universe that this is more of what you want to experience. Feel grateful and attract more reason to be grateful for. It works like magic.
Malti Bhojwani
Life is not a maze where you have your eyes on the gaps, life is a beautiful journey, stop looking for the gaps.
Malti Bhojwani
Feeling grateful to breathe a new day. Gratitude is a way to submit to the flow of life.
Vishwas Chavan
Make enthusiasm a way of life.Make optimism a way of success.Make gratitude a way of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.
Debasish Mridha
An appreciating heart radiates happinessGratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.
Debasish Mridha
To have more, you must genuinely thank more.
Maddy Malhotra
Don't wait to celebrate life until you retire, because you never know the day you will expire.
Maddy Malhotra
Gratitude is the key for the door of abundance.
Debasish Mridha
Gratitude opens a clenched fist and a closed heart.
Debasish Mridha
Gratitude for all the beauty and blessings that we already enjoy fills our lives with abundance.
Debasish Mridha
Gratitude is the payment for what we have received. It also opens our hearts to fill our lives with abundance.
Debasish Mridha
For success, positive attitude and gratitude is more important that ability.
Debasish Mridha
What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?
Maddy Malhotra
Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?
Maddy Malhotra
Let us express our gratitude to those people who make our journeys in life beautiful, easy, and interesting. They are the angels of Eden whom we often forget to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.
Sanchita Pandey
When the people of our hills visit an individual for any particular purpose, as for instance to show their gratitude or to express their thanks, it is customary for them not to go on their mission empty handed.A rose, a marigold, or a few petals of either flower, suffices, and the gift is proffered in hands cupped together.
Jim Corbett
Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, a dance of thankfulness, celebration for no reason at all, for this tremendous gift that goes on showering on us, for this whole universe, from the dust to the divine.
Osho
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
Abraham Verghese
After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India.'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked.'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.
Amit Ray
Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
Gautama Buddha
The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain, as though they knew exactly who they were.
Karan Bajaj
I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.
Karan Bajaj
The unwholesome may be otherwise, but the Whole is ever holy.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Don’t worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.
Fakeer Ishavardas
If you do not want others to laugh at your inherited god and faith, then, do not follow a hateful and stupid, a man-made sod and ism, mate.
Fakeer Ishavardas
The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Until you get it that in reality you, and the enemy you hate, are identically and inseparably 'One', of a single make, you're one big silly mistake.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Everyday, do more than you could; seek more than you should; understand more than is understood. Thus only a man stops being a hood.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.
Fakeer Ishavardas