The above photo was taken in Jul. 2017 at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
A list of quotations that I have collected over the years.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Remember, remember, the fifth of November; the gunpowder, treason and plot. I see of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
from the movie ‘V for Vendetta‘
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.
Gandalf (from ‘Lord of the Rings’)
If it can be done, it should be done.
Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
from the show ‘Monk‘
When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead … true story!
Barney Stinson (from the show ‘How I Met Your Mother’)
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo Da Vinci
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Pain is embedded in any creative journey. It is a source of strength that allows one to reach philosophical levels.
Shaji N. Karun
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see further.
Orison Swett Marden
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities.
from the book ‘Shantaram‘
Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
Pablo Picasso
The devil is in the detail.
Patrik Jane (from the show ‘The Mentalist’)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
My best is yet to come.
Sachin Tendulkar
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
With great power comes great responsibility.
Uncle Ben (from ‘Spiderman’)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.
from the book ‘Shantaram‘
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
from the movie ‘Gladiator‘
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird
Knowledge is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are what you eat.
heard from my sister Jessin Kishor
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The difference between what we are doing and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world’s problems.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have – to hold on tight until the dawn.
from the book ‘Shantaram‘
The teacher appears when the student is ready.
Anonymous
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it’s the other way around.
from the book ‘Shantaram‘
Life is lived in the time domain.
Prof. Costas D. Sarris
Simple living and high thinking.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
from the book ‘The Alchemist‘
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
To achieve something you’ve never achieved before, you must first become someone you’ve never been before.
Brian Tracy
Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum – No Greatness Without Goodness
from the book ‘Life of Pi‘
The song is always greater than the singer.
Usha Uthup
I think it would be a good idea.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
‘Don’t punish yourself,’ she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness too. That was writing.
from the book ‘The Book Thief‘
Cultures grow out the keystone habits in every organisation, whether leaders are aware of them or not.
from the book ‘The Power of Habit’
Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.
from the book ‘A Man Called Ove’
People need a function, he believes. And he has always been functional, no one can take that away from him.
from the book ‘A Man Called Ove’
Krishna Kumar Kishor 