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Quotes by Indian Authors

"You are my sweetest dream come true. I'll love you today, tomorrow, and always. Happy Valentine's Day!"


"Those who understand the problem are those who see it clearly."

"You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen."

"Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil."


"Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale."

"As the New Year begins, let go of all past worries and embrace the fresh start. May this year be filled with joy, love, success, and endless blessings."

"Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping."

"Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion."


"When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!"

"Generally, in English, one way in which we describe an insane person is like this: "He is out of his mind." See, if you were out of your mind, would you be insane? Insanity is of the mind always, isn't it? Only if you are in the mind you can be insane. If you are out of your mind, you will be perfectly sane; you will become like a Mansur, or a Jesus or someone who is beyond other people's understanding. Others may think they are insane, but they are the only few sane people that have happened on the planet."

"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."


"Unfolding of karmic effect is self-resulting (swaparinami). Therefore, whatever the unfolding karmic effect does is correct. Do not be obstinate there. The unfolding of karmic effect indeed means that it has come before you to give the result. Why not stop interfering in it?"


"There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don't have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law..."

"The path of love is not a tedious path. It's a path of joy. It's a path of singing and dancing."

"Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself."

"Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky."

"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

"See, when we begin to question the very existence of the Creator that means the creation is perfect. If every day it could not function without morning and evening prayers, then this would not be a perfect creation. This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator - you can just discard him, dump him - and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside."

"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."

"You can't control the waves, but you can learn to surf."


"The Knower of 'taste' is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul."

"Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."

"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."

"By nature, that mind is easily fooled by supernatural mysticism. It is extremely gullible. And no matter how much we the civilized human beings advance in the fields of modern sciences, there is always a part of us, that tries to allure us with magical nonsense, because that nonsense has been with us since the birth of humanity."

"When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response."

"From a medical standpoint, the third and the most probable explanation is that Jesus was indeed dead, and what his disciples experienced were mere hallucinations evoked by the grief over the loss of their beloved teacher. It is clinically known as "Post-Bereavement Hallucinations Experiences or PBHE."

"Mysticism is like pure science, it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know, Occult is not science. Occult is just technology."

"Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life."
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