40 quotes found
Author · Indian
Indian author
“This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.”
“If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he will resign himself to his fate and not vent his fury on society at large.”
“Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want”
“Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave a society based on the rule of law. But as long as you live in such a society you must obey the law.”
“But remember, great Good will, more often than not, lead to great Evil.”
“Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle ...”
“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”
“What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.”
“It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always re...”
“his burden didn't feel any lighter. but he felt strong enough to carry it”
“Vengeance is waste of time”
“Shared secrets have way of creating bonds”
“One makes one's own luck, but you have to give the universe the opportunity to help you.”
“At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rathe...”
“If the universe is trying to maintain balance, we must aid this by ensuring that Good is not enjoyed excessively. Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating Evil to counteract Good. Th...”
“Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-dest...”
“I find nothing wrong in being called a ‘Hindu’ writer, but I dislike the implicit assumption in that terminology.”
“Remember, in the Indian way, only the shruti scriptures are of divine origin. The laws, or smriti books, are not of divine origin, but man-made, which means we can change the laws depending on what...”
“Our society has collectively chosen a smriti for now: it’s called the Indian Constitution.”
“I wish I could explain, in a manner others may consider rational, how these plots come to me. But I can’t. I just open the laptop, and there is this parallel universe that opens up and I record wha...”