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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Quotation for You

Melody Beattie-Author
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't. - Melody Beattie
Melody Beattie (born 1948) is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships. - Wikipedia
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Quotation for You

Bill Mauldin-Cartoonist
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.  - Bill Mauldin
William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (1921-2003)  was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. - Wikipedia

Monday, October 29, 2018

Quotation for You

Vikram Batra-Officer
Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure. - Vikram Batra
Captain Vikram Batra, PVC (1974-1999) was an officer of the Indian Army, posthumously awarded with the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest and most prestigious award for valour, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War in Kashmir between India and Pakistan. -Wikipedia
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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Quotation for You

Edward Bulwer Lytton-Novelist
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton (1831-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP from 1851 to 1866. - Wikipedia

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Quotation for You

Virat Kohli-Cricketer
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. - Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli (born 1988) is an Indian international cricketer who currently captains the India national team. A right-handed top-order batsman, Kohli is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the world. He plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League and has been the team's captain since 2013. - Wikipedia

Friday, October 26, 2018

Quotation for You

Johnny Cash-Singer
Life is rough so you gotta be tough. - Johnny Cash
John R. Cash (1932-2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. - Wikipedia

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Quotation for You

Miles Davis-Musician
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. - Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis (1926-1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. - Wikipedia

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Quotation for You


Nisargadatta Maharaj-Guru
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, And between the two my life moves. - Nisargadatta Maharaj 
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) was a Hindu guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya and Lingayat Shaivism. - Wikipedia
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Quotation for You

Jerry Pinto-Writer
A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction? - Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian writer of poetry, prose and children's fiction, as well as a journalist. Pinto writes in English, and his works include, Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women and Asylum and Other Poems. - Wikipedia
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Monday, October 22, 2018

Quotation for You

Meena Kandasamy-Poet
You see, even if the hen knows it is day, it is the cock that must crow. - Meena Kandasamy
Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Most of her works are centered on feminism and the anti-caste Caste Annihilation Movement of the contemporary Indian milieu. -  Wikipedia

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Quotation for You

Matthew Fox-Actor
Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything. - Matthew Fox
Matthew Chandler Fox (born 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Charlie Salinger on Party of Five and Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama series Lost, the latter of which earned him Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. - Wikipedia

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Quotation for You

Pierre Trudeau-Statesman
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. - Pierre Trudeau 
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) was a Canadian statesman who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada. He is the third longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history. - Wikipedia
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Friday, October 19, 2018

Quotation for You

E. M. Forster-Novelist
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. - Wikipedia

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Quotation for You

Krishna Udayasankar-Author
There are no such things in life as compromises without resentment, only delayed reactions.  - Krishna Udayasankar
Krishna Udayasankar is a Singapore-based Indian author, known for her modern retelling of Mahabharata through the novels Govinda, Kaurava and Kurukshetra. The three books collectively comprise The Aryavarta Chronicles. Her debut novel, Govinda, was a bestseller. - Wikipedia
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Quotation for You

Vineet Bajpai-Entrepreneur
Perhaps divinity is no greater than its believer. One would not exist without the other. - Vineet Bajpai
Vineet Bajpai (born 1977) is an Indian entrepreneur and author. He is the Founder and CEO of Talentrack, an online platform for hiring and talent crowdsourcing for the media and entertainment sector. He is also the Founder & Chairman of Magnon\TBWA and Magnon eg+. Both Magnon companies are part of the Fortune 500 Omnicom Group. -  Wikipedia

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Quotation for You

Ravinder Singh-Author
Forget what others think when you wish to dance in the rain. Just do it. It’s your moment. It’s your happiness. - Ravinder Singh
Ravinder Singh (born 1982) is an Indian author. He has written eight novels entitled "I Too Had a Love Story", "Can Love Happen Twice?", "Like it happened Yesterday", "Love Stories That Touched My Heart", " Tell Me A Story", "Your Dreams are Mine Now", "This Love That Feels Right", "Will You Still Love Me". - Wikipedia
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Monday, October 15, 2018

Quotation for You

Manju Kapur-Novelist
There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity. - Manju Kapur
Manju Kapur (bor 1948) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia. She teaches English at Delhi University under the name Manjul Kapur Dalmia. - Wikipedia
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Quotation for You

Amish Tripathi-Author
It is our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil. - Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi (born 1974) is an Indian author, known for his novels The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras, Scion of Ikshvaku and Sita: Warrior of Mithila. - Wikipedia
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Saturday, October 13, 2018

Quotation for You

Amit Chaudhuri-Novelist
History is not the annals; it's what happens around us when we're unaware it's history. - Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. - Wikipedia
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Friday, October 12, 2018

Quotation for You

Indra Sinha-Writer
At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well. - Indra Sinha
Indra Sinha (born 1950) is a British writer of Indian and English descent. Animal's People, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia. Sinha is the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer. -   Wikipedia
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Quotation for You

Ashok Banker-Author
Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals. - Ashok K. Banker
Ashok Kumar Banker (born 1964) is an author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction, and mythological retellings. - Wikipedia
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Quotation for You

Om Swami-Monk
When we cling to a thought or follow its track, we are performing a mental karma, and that, in turn, is the seed of all physical actions. - Om Swami, A Million Thoughts
Om Swami (born 1979) is a monk and author of ten best-selling books including Kundalini: An Untold Story, A Million Thoughts, The Wellness Sense, When All Is Not Well, and If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir - Wikipedia

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Quotation for You

Preeti Shenoy-Author
Once you know what direction to take, finding the path to it becomes easy. - Preeti Shenoy
Preeti Shenoy (born 1971) is an Indian author. She has been consistently nominated for the Forbes List of the 100 most influential celebrities in India since 2013. Preeti received the Indian of the Year award by Brands Academy. She has also received Business excellence award instituted by New Delhi Management Institute. - Wikipedia
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Monday, October 8, 2018

Quotation for You

Pratibha Ray-Writer
The meaning of Maya is magic, affection, attachment, deception. That meaning, which results from mixing all of these, is called life. In other words, life is maya. - Pratibha Ray
Pratibha Ray (born 1943) is an Indian academic and writer. She was born in Alabol, a remote village in the Balikuda area of Jagatsinghpur district formerly part of Cuttack district of Odisha state. She was the first woman to win the Moortidevi Award in 1991. - Wikipedia

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Quotation for You

Shashi Tharoor-Politician
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness. It means profusion of religions. - Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) is an Indian politician, writer and a former career international diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. - Wikipedia

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Quotation for You

Amitava Kumar-Writer
The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings. - Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar(born 1963)is an Indian writer and journalist who is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College. - Wikipedia
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Friday, October 5, 2018

Quotation for You

Nirad C. Chaudhuri-Writer
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (1897-1999) was an Indian Bengali−English writer and man of letters. He was born in a Hindu family in 1897 in Kishoreganj, then part of Bengal, British India. Chaudhuri authored numerous works in English and Bengali. -Wikipedia

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Quotation for You

Kulpreet Yadav-Writer
Your thoughts define the boundaries of your life. Think big. - Kulpreet Yadav
Kulpreet Yadav (born 1968) is an Indian writer in the fiction-Thriller genre. He is the author of two novels: The Girl Who Loved a Pirate and The Girl Who Loved a Spy. The Girl Who Loved a Pirate is India’s first thriller based on marine piracy & hijacking. - Wikipedia

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Quotation for You

Ashwin Sanghi-Writer
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are. - Ashwin Sanghi
Ashwin Sanghi is an Indian writer in the fiction-Thriller genre. He is the author of three best-selling novels: The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant and The Krishna Key. All his books have been based on historical, theological and mythological themes. - Wikipedia

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Quotation for You

Amitav Ghosh-Writer
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake. - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956) is an Indian writer best known for his work in English fiction. - Wikipedia
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Quotation for You

Khushwant Singh-Author
When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars. - Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh (1915-2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist, and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956, which became his most well-known novel. - Wikipedia
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