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Quotes by Indian Authors
"A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it."
"Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business " all these fall into the same category of psychological reinforcement. Hence, emerged the blood-sucking professions of astrology, palmistry, vastushastra, numerology etc. The very existence of these fraudulent professions is predicated on the fear and anxiety of vulnerable masses. Thus, a person's superstitious beliefs become the tool of exploitation in the hands of ruthless fraudsters."
"If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative.If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday."
"Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for 'Knowledge' is a state free of all attachments (vitragta)."
"Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands."
"Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is."
"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."
"Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never."
"That for which, you are deserving; will come before you effortlessly. Your purity is required. What is required for your purity? [The intent of] 'May no living being in this world be hurt by me'. If anyone hurts you, it happens as per the law [nature's law]."
"When you plan something that is unpragmatic, it proves that you do not have a lot of knowledge about your topic that you are mentioning to others."
"If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life."
"Back seat only works if you have a great driver!!! Either hire the right one or take charge and drive!!!!!"
"Only when there is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) in the body, then there is shukladhyan in the Self (contemplation as the Self, the Soul)."
"Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead."
"That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that."
"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
"Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there."
"Dream big. Start small. Begin today."
"It is not speed that matters, it's persistence."
"Purpose of our journey is to discover the self and to leave the persona behind. The most revered lives are those that can touch and change other lives. Every human has that spark of genius in them and it is only when when you see that in yourself that you will see the genius in others."
"Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate."
"Whenever an Indian goes to any part of the world and makes a difference there, we feel proud."
"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."
"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
"Wishing you a harvest of happiness, a feast of love, and a life full of blessings this Thanksgiving."
"Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions."
"Civility must be a natural thing, all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate liberation] means there must be simplicity. There should be no 'ghosts of etiquette' there."
"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
"Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you."
"Add value too your time, chill out with good people."
"This Thanksgiving, may you find a moment of quiet reflection amidst the festive bustle to count the many blessings that enrich your life every day."
"Resolutely train yourself to attain peace."
"Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called 'Rushdie,' and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd."
"My way is the way of silent revolution, revolution to raise the human consciousness through positive vibrations."
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."
"There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned."
"Art is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue, dissolve in ART!"
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