Menon Quotes & Sayings

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger. — Robert Fulghum

The funny thing about a smile is that once you wear a smile, the darkness lightens and one does not feel frightened or sad any more. — Deepak Menon

A roof of harmony can only be built on top of pillars of tolerance. — Shilpa Menon

The dividing line between a journalist and an author is very thin. If a journalist is not author, it is his or her call. — K.S.R. Menon

So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir) — Krishna Menon

When you start loving yourself, others around you will also start loving you. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult. — Nivedita Menon

Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to. — Shilpa Menon

leadership is about courage and the ability to overcome unsurmountable challenges, — Sudha Menon

Healing begins with owing your scars & disowning that which caused them — Shilpa Menon

May the radiance of what you love, reflect in whatever you do. — Shilpa Menon

I suggest you all ask your mothers to make you some smiles and keep them in your pockets. If you ever find any one feeling sad or frightened or angry, then you can give them a smile and you will see what a change takes place. — Deepak Menon

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth. — Ramesh Menon

Failure is the price paid for a lesson. Learn from it. — Shilpa Menon

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

My story - the story of the son of Jainulabdeen, who lived for over a hundred years on Mosque Street in Rameswaram island and died there; the story of a lad who sold newspapers to help his brother; the story of a pupil reared by Sivasubramania Iyer and Iyadurai Solomon; the story of a student taught by teachers like Pandalai; the story of an engineer spotted by MGK Menon and groomed by the legendary Prof. Sarabhai; the story of a scientist tested by failures and setbacks; the story of a leader supported by a large team of brilliant and dedicated professionals. This story will end with me, for I have no belongings in the worldly sense. I have acquired nothing, built nothing, possess nothing - no family, sons, daughters. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To enter the corporate rat race, you need to become a rat. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

Brahma emerged from the right side of Mahesa, Vishnu from the left and Nilarudra from his heart. In the beginning, intoning AUM, Sadasiva created the universe. Siva is Pranava and Pranava is Siva. — Ramesh Menon

It's easy to make money, a lot tougher to make a difference — Shilpa Menon

In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear, trying desperately to warn her of impending danger. — Deepti Menon

With time, scars turn into wisdom. — Shilpa Menon

...the belief that the threat of rape is everywhere, that it can happen at any time, that it is the worst fate that can befall women, is enough to make us police ourselves and restrict our own mobility. But on the other hand, feminists also want to demystify rape, to begin to see it not as a unique and life-destroying form of violation from which one can never recover, but as (merely) another kind of violence against person. — Nivedita Menon

This is our life. We get to decide the rules. We get to say what goes and what stays, what matters and what doesn't. — Sandhya Menon

What separates the best from the rest is just the attitude. — Shilpa Menon

When the finally pulled apart, Rishi's mouth tingling still, Dimple smiled shyly and looked down at their hands, entwined between them on the bench. "So," she said softly. "That was unexpected."

He leaned over and kissed her forehead, like it was the most natural thing to do. Was this going to be their thing now, casual kissing? He hoped so. "Unexpected but awesome." Rishi paused. "Right?"

She laughed and looked up at him. "Definitely."

He grinned, his heart soaked in happy. — Sandhya Menon

Do not let others drive that vehicle, called life, for you. Grab that steering wheel and discover unexplored destinations. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

It takes a whole lot longer to pull ourselves together than it takes to fall apart.. — Shilpa Menon

The poorest of women is the one without close girlfriends — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

[E]ven today, when confident and self-affirmative lesbian identities have emerged and are available to women, images of 'lesbianism' are still regularly appropriated by a male heterosexual pornographic imagination which cannot accept that this is one party to which men are not invited and at which their presence is not necessary. — Nivedita Menon

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger. — V. K. Krishna Menon

He wondered if he should feel a stab of jealousy - Dimple bonding so well with his muscled, much cooler younger brother - but all he felt was this warm, almost gooey feeling in his chest. Like his heart was wrapped in microwaved Nutella. — Sandhya Menon

He lit the night he brought with the fire that puts out the planets when time ends. — Ramesh Menon

Dimple could see, flush from the endorphins of a great performance, why actors and performers got addicted to this kind of thing. It had always seemed unfathomable to her, choosing a career where all you did was put yourself out in front of hundreds or thousands of people and risked rejection in real time. But if they felt even half of what she was feeling now when it went well... — Sandhya Menon

[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears responsibility to some degree for maintaining these protocols of intolerance, which could not be kept in place if every single one of us did not play our part. From bringing up children 'appropriately', to lovingly correcting or punishing their inappropriate behaviour, to making sure we never breach the protocols ourselves, to staring or sniggering at people who look different, to coercive psychiatric and medical intervention, to emotional blackmail, to physical violence-it's a range of slippages all the way that we seldom recognize. — Nivedita Menon

There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously male or female) population of citizens, with the women respectably desexualized, is a process that is central to nation formation all over the globe. — Nivedita Menon

Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created. — Shilpa Menon

The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment. — Deepti Menon

Life can be a beautiful journey if you accept who you are and accept the people around you for what they are. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

Why Menon got where he did under the patronage of Pandit Nehru remains, and probably will remain, unexplained. Panditji had him elected to Parliament and sent to the United Nations to lead the Indian delegation. His marathon thirteen-hour speech on Kashmir won India a unanimous vote against it. He was then made Defence Minister against the wishes of almost all the members of the Cabinet. He wrecked army discipline by promoting favourites over the heads of senior officers. He was vindictive against those who stood up to him. More than anyone else he was responsible for the humiliating defeat of our army at the hands of the Chinese in 1962. Pandit Nehru stuck by him to the last. — Khushwant Singh

Just hearing about these lingas of grace rids a man of his sins. They are Somanatha, Mallikarjuna, Mahakaala, Parameswara, Kedara, BhimaSankara, Visvesa, Tryambaka, Vaidyanatha, Nagesa, Ramesa and Ghusmesa. Those who repeat these names daily achieve their every desire; and those who chant them with no trace of desire are released forever from birth and rebirth. When eaten, the prasada offered to these Jyotirlingas makes ashes of the sins of a thousand births. The mere sight of a Jyotirlinga can cause moksha; but these lingas were not always upon the earth. — Ramesh Menon

Scars heal when you learn to FLY.
F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself). — Shilpa Menon

The first time Akash took Supriya to view the pool, I rose up in strident protest, and he was astonished by the way she turned her face away, her eyes filled with terror. "I am petrified of water!" she whispered, as he tried to cajole her to at least put her feet in. — Deepti Menon

But that was Rishi... he was like a pop song you thought you couldn't stand, but found yourself humming in the shower anyway. — Sandhya Menon

The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food his birthright, even as he strove to read the cryptic messages that the Gods were strewing before him. — Deepti Menon

When you're angry you act according to your emotions, not with your mind. — Lakshmi Menon

May the radiance of what you love, manifest in whatever you do. — Shilpa Menon

Calm is not a place where there is no noise or activity. It is the ability to be in the midst of these,
yet experiencing peace within. — Shilpa Menon

The thought of hope is the seed to healing. — Shilpa Menon

Freedom is the right to live without fear. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

Don't seek, let go & what you are searching for will find you. — Shilpa Menon

Most scars are destined long before they are experienced. Healing is however, a choice. — Shilpa Menon

Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell. — Ramesh Menon

The quality of your awareness determines the quality of life you experience. — Shilpa Menon

The power to heal the scars begins with hope. — Shilpa Menon

Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, "paralysed" as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose stuck to the image (the mirror). In that moment when the other's image comes to ravish me for the first time, I am nothing more than the Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner's wonderful Hen: feet tied, the hen went to sleep with her eyes fixed on the chalk line, which was traced not far from her beak; when she was untied, she remained motionless, fascinated, "submitting to her vanquisher," as the Jesuit says (1646); yet, to waken her from her enchantment, to break off the violence of her Image-repertoire (vehemens animalis imaginatio), it was enough to tap her on the wing; she shook herself and began pecking in the dust again. — Roland Barthes

Ninety percent of the songs and movies we listen to and see are based on love. We like to talk most about the things we don't have. — Arathi Menon

She wept for her hardheadedness, and for a world that couldn't just let her be both, a woman in love and a woman with a career, without flares of guilt and self-doubt seeping in and wreaking havoc. — Sandhya Menon

We are eternal beings, existing in time. — Shilpa Menon

Misunderstanding is one of the worst of ill feelings which can spoil many lives. — Lakshmi Menon

Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts. — Devdas Menon

[O]nce we give up on the idea that only heterosexuality is normal and that all human bodies are clearly either male or female, more and more kinds of bodies and desires will come into view. Perhaps also, one body may, in one lifetime, move through many identities and desires. The use of,queer' then, is a deliberate political move, which underscores the fluidity (potential and actual) of sexual identity and sexual desire. The term suggests that all kinds of sexual desire and identifications are possible, and all these have socio-cultural and historical co-ordinates. — Nivedita Menon

The fact is, no man can ever know whether a child is his. A woman knows a child is hers, but a man can never know whether it is his, not even with a DNA test. A DNA test can only tell you if the child is not yours, but if your DNA matches, it only indicates 'a high statistical probability' that it is your child. As they say, 'Motherhood is a biological fact, fatherhood is a sociological fiction.' It is this knowledge that creates permanent anxiety for patriarchy, an anxiety that requires women's sexuality to be strictly policed. — Nivedita Menon

Against all odds, beyond every logic, there is hope. — Shilpa Menon

Hope is the first step to healing — Shilpa Menon

The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow. — Shilpa Menon

Awareness is the eye through which we can experience abundance. — Shilpa Menon

If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite. — Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee