Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 99

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.
Phoolan Devi
What need is there to say more?The childish work for their own benefit,The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.Just look at the difference between them.If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood.And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy. The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself;The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.
Śāntideva
Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.
Meghna Pant
It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.
Vikas Swarup
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. 
Swami Vivekananda
If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.
Kamal Ravikant
Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?
Sanhita Baruah
Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times.
Girdhar Joshi
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
Mother Teresa
Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again.House-builder, you're seen!You will not build a house again.All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.
Gautama Buddha
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. And is there any other form of listening? Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Listening has importance only when on is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Gautama Buddha
In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.
Debasish Mridha
Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success.
Debasish Mridha
I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it’s perishable like human life.
Meghna Pant
The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. ‘Adjust everywhere’.
Dada Bhagwan
In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being. You can see great human beings surface only when the society is really suffering. When India was under the oppression of British rulers, how many wonderful people stood up? Where are they now? They have just fallen back into their comforts, that's all. All those Ghandis, Patels, Tilaks are still there, but they're dormant. When pain came, they all became alive. They left everything behind and stood up as giants. Where are they now? This is the human misfortune that still there's not enough intelligence in the world that human beings will rise to their peaks when everything is well. They wait for calamities.
Sadhguru
Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
Gautama Buddha
All suffering is the consequence of a constant quest.
Nilesh Rathod
The suffering that is there in this world is such that it will fall off (go away), but people give support to it.
Dada Bhagwan
One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87
Eknath Easwaran
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.
Deepak Chopra
We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?
Śāntideva
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
Mother Teresa
He noticed that she threw away the crumbled bus ticket on the street as soon as she got down. He picked it up and put it in his pocket along with his own a memorabilia of their first date together, just like a strand of her hair he would find later on his shirt and the broken pen cap that she would go on to search in the laboratory and so many other such small things which he would collect.
Faraaz Kazi
He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.
Faraaz Kazi
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
Amitav Ghosh
The past is but an untraceable footfallIt appears in intervals and pushes us back in time,In those moments of grief and then suddenly vanishes.It’s often dark and ruthless.It baffles our thoughts and seizes our peace of mind.By making us recollect our failures, our buried expectationsAnd our shattered dreams It only gives way to fleeting tears, leaving us with fruitless guilt.It wrecks our present and ruins our futureAnd thus should be left where it is meant to beIt should be left behind …
Chirag Tulsiani
Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.
Faraaz Kazi
Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently ‘Sarah’ had only been thrown into a plastic bag and left in the closet under the bathroom sink, where the packet gathered mold and fungus and slowly acquired a signature stink. That stench was now slowly escaping from between the gap of the doors and the bathroom floor. Sarah was Siddharth’s ex.
Shweta Ganesh Kumar
Every thing has changed but my mind never.
pavankumar nagaraj
The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.
Sanhita Baruah
One minute you are here and the next moment you are some place else, some time a long ago. That is the thing about your mind. Memories. Everything still exists in the folds of your brain; you may try to forget or honestly believe that you have forgotten but nothing is ever erased. Every memory is registered, good or bad does not matter. Sometimes you bring some out on purpose, sometimes some memory jumps at you on its own, shocking you, shaking you, making you realize how far you have come and at the same time proving to you that you can never really go far enough.
Arti Honrao
Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.
Debasish Mridha
Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.
Debasish Mridha
I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.
Debasish Mridha
Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.
Debasish Mridha
Past is aipsom if you learned from the past.
Debasish Mridha
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Bodhidharma
Let's not go into the past.
Ramakrishna
When people complain me that, they suffer a lot my answer will be the same forget your past, live with present and don't wait for your future.
Piyush Paudyal
What is past, but unalterable truth; life, just a pile of regrets; future, just a sum total of possibilities, and you...? just another trapped soul...
Gayathri Jayakumar
Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.
Osho
Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried.
Preeti Shenoy
Her today's silence is the unheard shouts from past that you never listened.
Himanshu Chhabra
Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.
Indu Muralidharan
Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.
Karan Mahajan
Those happy memories now added to my sorrows.
Melita Tessy
Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)
Ravi Ravindra
Every time I hold your hand in the night and look at that star, I remember the fact that it is millions of light years away from us, we are looking at its past and it doesn't exist anymore and I always end up feeling, what if we both are made up of the dust of the same star we are staring at.
Akshay Vasu
Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.
Faraaz Kazi
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
Salman Rushdie
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Gautama Buddha
I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.
Mother Teresa
Of course gratitude should be expressed...But that does not mean to kill your self-esteem.
Deepika Muthusamy
Why don't we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? ... Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?
Maddy Malhotra
A sad truth is that we don't know what we really believe! We don't know how we operate. We don't know what is holding us back. We don't know why we do what we do.
Maddy Malhotra
There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.
Maddy Malhotra
If you think you’re worthless, you’re not - but your limiting self-beliefs are. Change them.
Maddy Malhotra
Don't let a mediocre person tell you what you are capable of or how your future is going to be.
Maddy Malhotra