Walia Quotes & Sayings

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. — Harshit Walia

Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived. — Harshit Walia

Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others. — Harsha Walia

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them. — Warren Buffett

My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire. — Harshit Walia

All that is shallow defends itself with much stronger rationalisations than that with a terrible depth. It is the rule. — Harshit Walia

In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most. — Harshit Walia

Nothing stays forever, nobody does rather. All the things, people will leave you one fine day and you'll be a wanderer in solitude again. You'll moan again silently through the process of decaying. All your richness or poorness
was never really of worth.
When you were born, you were dead, respiring to cease. You're a trader, exchanging everything! — Nupur Walia

A thought is of a much higher value than an action. — Harshit Walia

All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good; there is no static meaning as such. — Harshit Walia

There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess an unaccountable feeling, a presence, an absence. Sometimes it takes time to learn this, like a child who suddenly realizes for the first time that the ball he threw over the fence has not disappeared. — Anne Michaels

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity. — Tom Ford

In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand. — Agnes Kamara-umunna

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes. — French Montana

I think the notion of dreaming in a time where we are told that it is foolish, futile or not useful is one of the most revolutionary things we can do. To have our lives determined by our dreams of a free world
instead of reactions to a state-imposed reality
is one of the most powerful tools of decolonization. — Harsha Walia

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

A world in which the seizure and sale of a black man - even a black child - was viewed as neither criminal nor extraordinary had reemerged. Millions of blacks lived in that shadow - as forced laborers or their family members, or African Americans in terror of the system's caprice. The practice would not fully recede from their lives until the dawn of World War II, when profound global forces began to touch the lives of black Americans for the first time since the era of the international abolition movement a century earlier, prior to the Civil War. — Douglas A. Blackmon

All that is called sadistic is not so. It is called sadistic in comparison to what is regarded as normal which has yet not been defined correctly. — Harshit Walia

To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas. — Harshit Walia

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins. — Harshit Walia

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here. — Tony Parker

Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same. — Harshit Walia

Sannyas is not a philosophy; it is a quest for TRUTH. It is not a way of life. It is a commitment towards a self discovered state of mind. — Harshit Walia

Borders controls are most severely deployed by those Western regimes that create mass displacement, and are most severely deployed against those whose very recourse to migration results from the ravages of capital and military occupations. . . We are all, therefore, simultaneously separated by and bound together by the violences of border imperialism. — Harsha Walia

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships. — Harshit Walia

A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime. — Harshit Walia