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Quotes by Indian Authors
"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
"This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for you and the happiness you bring into my life. Have a wonderful holiday!"
"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."
"Happy New Year! May you be blessed with good health, prosperity, and endless joy. Let this year be the beginning of a beautiful journey for you!"
"We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences."
"Wishing you prosperity, happiness, and festive joy that lasts all year long."
"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."
"I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved."
"The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'."
"Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh, or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country, but with certain duties."
"If you want to change the world, start with yourself."
"Your love makes me a better person. I will forever be thankful for you. Happy Valentine's Day!"
"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us."
"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""
"The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person except you. The truth of life grows and evolves, in the form of understanding."
"It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel."
"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
"It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."
"Patriotism, whether it is of the Western kind, or of the Eastern kind, is the same, a poison in human beings that is really distorting thought. So patriotism is a disease, and when you begin to realize, become aware that it is a disease, then you will see how your mind is reacting to that disease. When, in time of war, the whole world talks of patriotism, you will know the falseness of it, and therefore you will act as a true human being."
"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."
"Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why!"
"People think that those who commit suicide are against life-they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves."
"I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian."
"Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes."
"You are not in the universe; you are the universe."
"You are the dream come true I never knew I needed. I love you endlessly."
"On this Ganesh Chaturthi, may Lord Ganesha bring harmony, wisdom, and prosperity to your life. Have a blessed and joyful festival!"
"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is: are you alive before death?"
"As the diyas light up the night, may your life shine bright with new beginnings, love, and prosperity. Happy Diwali!"
"Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it," he said. "Make do with what there is."
"Your belief about others creates an unconscious behavior pattern in you which creates the reality!"
"Easter is a time to embrace new hope, new faith, and new beginnings. Wishing you a joyful and blessed season filled with love and grace."
"Also " for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles upon their husbands' genitalia, a sufficiency of children upon whose legitimacy the British Government had cast its ever-reasonable doubts " mingling with the remnants of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother-tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home."
"If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story."
"The tricolor represents our journey - from struggle to freedom, from division to unity, from poverty to progress. May this journey continue with pride!"
"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
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