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Quotes by Indian Authors
"If you don't play with relations and respect to love you may get hurt And spend life in pain but you will die in rest."
"There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . ."
"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
"India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world"
"People are preoccupied only with money. They are looking to see where they can get it from. Hey, why are you looking for it in a 'cemetery'? This worldly life has become like a cemetery. There is no love to be seen in it. The way in which money comes to one is a natural thing. It is (by way of) scientific circumstantial evidences. Why do we have to run after it? If it were to free (liberate) us itself, then it would be very good, right?"
"She could hear her hair growing. It sounded like something crumbling. A burnt thing crumbling. Coal. Toast. Moths crisped on a light bulb. She remembered reading somewhere that even after people died, their hair and nails kept growing. Like starlight, travelling through the universe long after the stars themselves had died. Like cities. Fizzy, effervescent, simulating the illusion of life while the planet they had plundered died around them."
"Sankranti brings a reminder to work hard, celebrate abundance, and share blessings with others."
"May this Dussehra inspire you to face life's challenges with confidence, strength, and unwavering faith. Wishing you success and prosperity!"
"Sometimes it's your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it's memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I want is to lessen the pain I feel every night.But every morning I wake up is another day, hopeless and miserable, with nothing but a deafening silence, a wave of tears, memories and your absence."
"In the hands of blood-sucking monsters a scripture becomes a weapon that takes away humanism from the heart of humans and fills them with hate, rage and selfishness, whereas, in the hands of modern human beings the same scripture can become the greatest philosophical tool to endow the species with goodness and compassion."
"Happiness and misery are paper balls. Don't be afraid of death. Join the nationalist forces, be united. Give work to those who are hungry, food to invalids, forget your quarrels."
"Just look around! This immense universe is functioning so perfectly well that nothing can be added to it. It needs no improvement. Seeing this, one relaxes. If stars can go on dancing and flowers can go on blooming and birds can go on singing, why not you? You also belong to this universe. You are part of it. In fact, you are the most valuable part of it, the greatest flowering is going to happen in you-the flowering of consciousness, the golden flower of being."
"Dream high, beyond the sky; no matter wings so small, keep vision bright; just dare to learn, for you are born to fly."
"I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle."
"Let your heart be light, your spirit soar, and your life be filled with joy."
"Wishing you sweet moments, colorful celebrations, and endless reasons to smile this festival."
"Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated."
"Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act."
"Damn, the good words are all asterisked!"The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest!"
"I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water."
"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
"One is often unconsciously surrounded by one's own personal reality."
"She is not with me,this grief is not bigger then this happiness that she is with her choice."
"To be human is to be divine; you just have to realize it."
"A calamity can horrify an individual who is obsessed about life destruction and that particular individual could not indulge the beauty of living for the rest of his or her natural life."
"Trust is the base for all relations. If it breaks, then it's not easy to rejoin. It's very easy to say 'I don't trust you', but the pain these words cause is immense."
"To constantly see one's own self as 'Pure', and to see other's self as 'pure', is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog)."
"Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends."
"The only unreachable dream is the one you don't reach for."
"Sunglasses are best invention of this worldThey hide eyes,which speak more then words."
"One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive."
"On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor."
"Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers.Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died. Thirty-one. Not old.Not young.But a viable die-able age."
"Ignorance rises in our community because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational."
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