Apurva Desai Quotes

Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did. ~ Anita Desai

Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being. ~ Narayan Desai

Fame must be received with gratitude and handled with humility. ~ Rupali Desai

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others. ~ Morarji Desai

There is only ever one choice. Either you are living from your heart and moving toward your limitless potential, or you are continuing to live in fear and limitation. ~ Panache Desai

She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story. ~ Kiran Desai

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise. ~ Kiran Desai

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. ~ Anita Desai

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. ~ Morarji Desai

You being you is the blessing. You being you is the miracle. You being you is enough. You being you is your soul signature. ~ Panache Desai

One should marry when one stops having a good time and settle down. ~ Apurva Sharma

What was a country but the idea of it? ~ Kiran Desai

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood? ~ Anita Desai

Lit more than enlightened. ~ Tanuja Desai Hidier

The lighter we are - the more we've dealt with everything inside us - the more we are able to bring into our lives abundance, health, love, and soulfulness. ~ Panache Desai

The more you replicate the spiritual practice of another, the more disconnected you become from your own power, potential and possibility ~ Panache Desai

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed. ~ Kiran Desai

There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so he might breathe. ~ Anita Desai

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk ~ Kiran Desai

Within you lies a power that is so great, so profound, so vibrant, and closer within your reach then you ever thought possible. ~ Kush Desai

The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it. ~ Panache Desai

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. ~ Morarji Desai

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore. ~ Kiran Desai

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons. ~ Anita Desai

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. ~ Kiran Desai

Validation cannot come from outside of you. The fact that you are breathing means that you are enough. ~ Panache Desai

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths. ~ Kiran Desai

Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived. ~ Anita Desai

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people. ~ Morarji Desai

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you. ~ Kiran Desai

It was a terrible thing to be awake while some people flew, carrying the world over his head, and others slept, claiming it from under his feet. ~ Kiran Desai

He seemed unaware of what was going on, stared out without hope or ambition, without worry, developing a quality devoid of qualities to get him through this life. ~ Kiran Desai