Krishan Quotes & Sayings

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything
to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so. — F. Sionil Jose

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that. — Todd Solondz

The Ayurvedic route to great health involves two simple steps:
1. Doing less;
2. Being more. — Shubhra Krishan

The dreaded cry of "reboot," which is to say we have no clue and hopefully the issue will sort itself if we start over, if we clear the cache. — Hugh Howey

When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself. [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it or deciding to, but no one can be a child of God without making a decision to surrender to him. Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled with something you probably do not want, — E.W. Jackson

Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet. — Krishan Kumar

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. — Rumi

Welcome to your body. — Bryan Kest

Utopia retains throughout its long history the basic form of the narrative of a journey... First comes the picture of a happy people in a beautiful and well-ordered setting; then comes the lecture on how it all came about, how it works, and, by implication, how it might be made to work in the traveller's own society. — Krishan Kumar

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding. — Anais Nin

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself — Shubhra Krishan

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words. — Anita Krishan

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something. — Vikram Seth

Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it. — Shubhra Krishan

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer. — Graham Coxon

Utopia confronts reality not with a measured assessment of the possibilities of change but with the demand for change. 'This is the way the world should be.' It refuses to accept current definitions of the possible because it knows these to be part of the reality that it seeks to change... Wilde was right: 'A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at. — Krishan Kumar

I will change you like a remix, then I'll raise you like a Phoenix — Fall Out Boy

The great thing about Ayurveda is that its treatments always yield side benefits, not side effects. — Shubhra Krishan

For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible ... everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. Colossians 1:16 (MSG) — Rick Warren