Aru Shah Quotes

It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Why should I say thank you?" asked Mini. "I knew you could do it. ~ Roshani Chokshi

It is not failure to fail. ~ Roshani Chokshi

More than anything she wanted the world to be uncomplicated, for right and wrong to be as easily divided as the black and white sections of an Oreo. But the world was not a cookie. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Memories are the grandest illusion of all. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Aru was twelve years old. Even she knew that half the time she didn't know what she was doing. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Maybe that's why superheroes wore capes. Maybe they weren't capes at all, but safety blankets, like the one Aru kept at the bottom of her bed and pulled up under her chin before she went to sleep. Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they'd have a little bit of comfort wherever they went. Because honestly? Saving the world was scary. No harm admitting that. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Love looked different to everyone. ~ Roshani Chokshi

A particularly good book has a way of opening new spaces in one's mind. It even invited you to come back later and rummage through what you'd learn. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Aru used to think that friends were there to share your food and keep your secrets and laugh at your jokes while you walked from one classroom to the next. Sometimes, though, the best kind of friend is the one who doesn't say anything but just sits beside you. It's enough. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Real life doesn't always sound like it should. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Pandavas, will you see my truth?'
See well. Those words, uttered by Varuni, Sage Durvasa, Ratri, and Agni, echoed back to her. Aru's jaw clenched, but she nodded. She owed it to all of them, and, a small part of her said, she owed it to herself. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Secrets are curious things. They are flimsy and easily broken. For this reason, they prefer to remain hidden. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Aru didn't want to see all those gray spaces between good and bad - she just wanted things to be easy. ~ Roshani Chokshi

A Pandava must be so precise and so skilled that they can separate a shadow from its host! They can grab the wind! They are as swift as - '
'A river!,' shouted Aru.
Mini hollered, ' With the force of a great typhoon!'
'With all the strength of a raging fiiiiire - ' sang Brynne.
'STOP SINGING MULAN!' shouted Boo. ~ Roshani Chokshi

Aiden really looked at her then. His eyes were wide and dark, but not pure black. There were flashes of blue iridescence in them, like in Urvashi's eyes. Maybe it was an apsara trait. It made sense to Aru. Apsaras spent so much time dancing in the night skies that maybe their eyes eventually mirrored them. ~ Roshani Chokshi

You will never be a hero. You were never meant to be a hero."
Hero. that one word made Aru lift her chin. It made her think of Mini and Boo, her mom, and all the incredible things she herself had done in just nine days. Breaking the lamp hadn't been heroic... but everything else? Fighting for people she cared about and doing everything it took to fix her mistake? That was heroism.
Vajra became a spear in her hand.
"I already am. And it's heroine. ~ Roshani Chokshi

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'. ~ Idries Shah

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way. ~ Tahir Shah

I look through the cage ... an absolute beauty of yours ... ~ Ankur Kumar Shah

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain. ~ Idries Shah

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope. ~ Idries Shah

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again. ~ Idries Shah

Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. ~ Idries Shah

Saying of the Prophet
Envy
Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel. ~ Idries Shah

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. ~ Idries Shah

Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires. ~ Bulleh Shah

Sufism is the essence of all religions. ~ Idries Shah

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance. ~ Idries Shah

Words have to die if humans are to live. ~ Idries Shah

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes. ~ Idries Shah

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. ~ Idries Shah

Nobody has ever been and most certainly, never would be able to cut the wings of beliefs! Instead, they are nurtured for the needed flight that they give to our otherwise inert lives… ~ Trishala D. Shah

Where your hard work is Pre-Determined, Your Goals are Very Determined, Results are Undetermined and your Enjoyment is Post-Determined". Is the Way which lead you to Height of Success. ~ Kunal Shah

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. ~ Idries Shah

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt. ~ Idries Shah

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies. ~ Idries Shah

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. ~ Tahir Shah

Rather than trying to control Anger,try deferring it,looking for an alternative way of handling...i bet its more easy as well as more effective. ~ Ketan R Shah

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. ~ Tahir Shah

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, ~ Idries Shah

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings. ~ Idries Shah

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave. ~ Idries Shah

Shah Jahan who proved
an emperor to be shorter than a lover,
who turned a grave into a temple
who gave his beloved a place of God
and converted love into a prayer. ~ Suman Pokhrel

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. ~ Idries Shah

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge. ~ Idries Shah

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'. ~ Idries Shah

I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone - then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra) ~ Idries Shah

IMPRESSIONS
Time brought a thousand impressions.
Not one of them had I seen in the mirror of the imagination.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili) ~ Idries Shah