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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald."
"So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."
"Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence."
"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical."
"One will have to know the Self. Unless Self is known, God [Allah] cannot be attained. The power of Self should be attained. The power of Self is an abode of infinite bliss. There is no unhappiness there at all. This happiness is there even if someone insults you!"
"Everybody dies. Including your messiahs. And gods."
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
"Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice."
"Celebrate yourself; there is no one like you in the whole existence."
"If you think this fertiliser plant opened again, after 26 long years due to Modi then you are mistaken."
"No one is superior, no one is inferior, but no one is equal either. People are simply unique."
"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."
"We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India!"
"The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process."
"Leaders are made to be rivers not reservoirs."
"After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health."
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
"If one can exactly see the world 'as it is'; if one can exactly see the 'relative' and the 'real', it is shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul)."
"A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources."
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
"Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!"
"Holding you in my arms always feels like holding a musical instrument that I love the most, moving my fingers on your skin feels like playing it. And my soul closes its eyes and starts singing along with the music I start creating."
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
"Living well is dying well."
"Every person I ever knew or had come across always spoke about fallingin love with the rain. They dreamt of dancing in it like there is no tomorrow but I never heard someone speaking about falling in love with a wildfire. No, it is not for the weaker ones. The moment you fall in love with the wildfire, it starts burning everything that you have ever built or grown all these years around you. It changes the way you had always imagined and looked at how the love would be, making you end up homeless. It makes you a weakness intertwined with strength, a love intertwined with hatred. It makes you a puzzle that you yourself could never solve."
"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."
"The thinking ability or creative intelligence for a man is same as sexuality for a woman, and believe me, the latter is far more dangerous than all the nukes in this world."
"I have wondered that even in the era of colour the black and white photographs are so appealing? I feel that as per saying - in black and white -they speak the truth."
"Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor"
"Happy Thanksgiving to those who fill my life with laughter, love, and so many blessings. Grateful for you today and every day!"
"Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord ."
"The sacred texts of human history from all over the world, can never be perceived by the rational mind as texts of historical accuracy. They can only be a glaring representation of the traditions and ideals of the people. Now, it is up to the rational mind, to analyze those texts and thereafter consume the good elements from them, while discarding the rest."
"Being dependent on this world will lead to betrayal. It will deceive us at the right time. It is better to depend on a pillow, at least it will not move away from us at the right time. The one that is living will move away."
"Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
"A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing."
"In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game."
"The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition."
"Create life, that allow you to have a free flow from inside. This will happen when you improve your inner world and create life more out of understanding."
"Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'"
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