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Quotes by Indian Authors

"May Lord Ganesha's blessings bring you success in all your endeavors, prosperity in your career, and happiness in your family life."

"MISUNDERSTANDING' arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes."

"Keep on doing whatever it is that you have been doing; but, do no attachment-abhorrence. If 'You' stay in 'Your [Pure Soul] state'; attachment-abhorrence will not occur."

"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."


"The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat."

"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself."

"What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations."

"A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive."

"If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained."


"The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed."

"Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices."

"When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself."

"Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing."

"Some people in your lifeTouch you so very deeplyThat you drown totally in that depth."

"Good people won't do bad to you if you hurt them. They'll just be neutral and walk away, with experience and a lesson; and you'll be left with well-wishers less one."

"In the end it will be your 'Actions 'Convictions & 'Thoughts which will determine how you shaped your life."

"On a lighter but serious side I believe that homework was meant for parents to take a keen interest in the studies of children rather than leave it completely for the teacher. This way the parent child communication also developed. However with the passage of time the world become more mechanical and commercial. Quality time suffixed for quantity time and homework became a means of earning for many an educated unemployed teachers. How sad we sure have progressed but yet in many ways have lost our basic values, ethics and morality. It's time to wake up and DO OUR HOMEWORK."

"Be inspired but not proud."

"The universe is not outside of you; you are the universe."

"That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers."


"I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way."


"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."


"The alphabet is where all our secrets begin."

"I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies."

"Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core, he is one who follows his Tao."


"When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters."

"Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought."

"We took the path that led others nowhere and only we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They warned us about the monsters we would encounter, the odds that we would meet. And they laughed when we got the scars while fighting the dragons on our way. When we came back out of the tunnel, holding the sword that they always craved for tightly in our hand. Bleeding and the sun shining on our face. We became the tales they wanted to be. We became the reflections of what they always wanted to see themselves through. We became the warriors they had always imagined of."

"Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance."

"No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied. If today I run at a speed of 100, I keep an aim of running at 200. World has gone far ahead and we need to match that level."

"After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else!"

"Your friendship is our honour; your dreams are our duty. India's capacity may be limited, but our commitment is without limits. Our resources may be modest, but our will is boundless."

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

"Ordinary people want everything the world does better. Extraordinary people focus on what they do best."

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

"There was a closet somewhere inside me. Every day I went near that just to open the door and see all the masks of my face that I hid there.To select one which isn't me but still would look like me, which would hide me from the world in a better way. Day after day I stored so many masks in that closet that one day I searched for my real face in it and it wasn't there. I never understood whether I lost it or I forgot how it looked like, the more I searched the most lost I felt."

"You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame."

"Success loves audacity."

"I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too."
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