Parikshat Khanna Quotes

If you do something bad, something bad is going to happen with you. ~ Vikrant Khanna

This book is on us, by us but not biased.... ~ Srishti Khanna

Things have a way of turning up when they want to be found, though they may not always be the things you actually want to find. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Sometimes when I look at them from a distance, I try and squint my eyes and clear my mind. I peer at them the way a stranger would - without any emotions, just observations. In this large fortress I had created around my heart, the one that let me enter situations easily and leave even more easily, how did they find a cat flap that allowed them to crawl into my soul? ~ Twinkle Khanna

Our little satellite reached Mars because it was called MOM. If it was called DAD, it would still be circling the Earth, lost, but not willing to ask for directions. ~ Twinkle Khanna

A Rich Person Is One Who Does Not Want Any More Money ~ Akhil Khanna

Do unto another as you would want the (future) other to do unto you. ~ Twinkle Khanna

The driven, passionate ones give their best on ordinary days and that is why they are extraordinary. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Impossible is just an opinion, nothing else! ~ Vikas Khanna

Each day that you persist in a situation where you are miserable is a day wasted on the path that would lead you to happiness. ~ Twinkle Khanna

nothing in life is sacred except laughter. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Humans are fascinated by emotional material. We are always intrigued by the news and tragic events that are covered in the TV, radio, and newspapers. ~ Ruchira Khanna

I had managed to crop him out of photographs but not out of my memories. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Cities are mankind's most enduring and stable mode of social organization, outlasting all empires and nations over which they have presided. ~ Parag Khanna

Death and Birth are always celebrated the same way in all the cultures irrespective of the country you are born or live in. ~ Ruchira Khanna

Your greatest moment in life soon joins a series of other moments and is often forgotten. As you rise, so shall you eventually fall. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Karma is created even with a thought that comes in mind. ~ Rachna Khanna

Emotions tend to entwine Earthlings together. ~ Ruchira Khanna

It is amazing how sharing of one's intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together. ~ Ruchira Khanna

Committed to lead from the heart I appreciate a free spirit and do not follow idealistic rulebook. ~ Nidhi Khanna

Love in any relationship, family or an intimate friendship, is only about putting the other person's needs ahead of your own, and that, my friend, is just as simple and as complex as you make it. ~ Twinkle Khanna

We grown-ups always try to take the easy way out, the laziest way. We seem to have a great fear of getting tired, as if any energy depleted is lost forever. We want to plan our fatigue the same way we plan everything else. ~ Twinkle Khanna

The United Nations research states that men with the longest life expectancy are from Japan, followed by Switzerland. I am rather surprised at this result as since time immemorial we have been doing the Karva Chauth fast to make sure our men have long lives, and the results should have definitely shown by now. I scan the list, confident that in this chart of life expectancy, the Indian man must definitely be in the top 5. Nope! There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don't fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes. ~ Twinkle Khanna

After fourteen years of matrimony, I have discovered that hoping your other half telepathically reads your mind only leads to someone wanting to punch the other one in the face. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Has it ever happened that a murderer just before committing his crime gets a message stating, 'Life is about loving', and stops in his tracks, or a banker reads 'No greater sin than cheating', and quits his job? So, ~ Twinkle Khanna

Menstruating doesn't cause pickles to spoil, temples to collapse or food to rot, nor is it contagious, though it would be rather nice to infect the male population with this so-called 'curse' for a month or two, just to sit back and view what I am sure would be a highly entertaining spectacle. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Believe in yourself & Love yourself. ~ Shradha Khanna

Why do all Hindu boys worship their mother? Because their religion tells them to worship the cow. ~ Twinkle Khanna

One day he will be in my place and what he will learn then is that trying and holding on are complicated and challenging things, but the most difficult thing in life is to love fiercely and then let go. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Cultural power is glacial. It moves slowly but with great force. ~ Amit Khanna

the only person you can ever change is yourself; after you have done that and you are the best you that you can be, let go. There is always another job, another woman, another best friend. Each day that you persist in a situation where you are miserable is a day wasted on the path that would lead you to happiness.' He looks at me and says, 'So you are saying I should take the easy way out?' And I say, 'No, I want you to know the difference between trying and holding on.' Monday ~ Twinkle Khanna

Only sisters can hurl nuclear weapons at each other and come out unscathed. ~ Twinkle Khanna

We always give our best when our back is against the wall. We will write a superlative essay when pushing hard against a deadline, make the most innovative presentation when our job is in jeopardy, and study the hardest when the exam is the next day. ~ Twinkle Khanna

Go out there! Sweep a pavement, plant a tree, feed a stray dog. Do something, anything; rather than just using your fingers to tap three keys and destroy 600 people's brain cells in one shot. 11 ~ Twinkle Khanna

Who has not seen a womb
Each one who walks this earth
his presence was in one
The dance of the divine was in the womb
each one was touched.... ~ Nimi Khanna

Great actions have shaped our society.' Sindermann said. The greatest of these, physically, has been the Emperor's formal and complete unification of Terra, the outward sequel to which, this Great Crusade, we are now engaged upon. But the greatest, intellectually, has been our casting off of that heavy mantle called religion. Religion damned our species for thousands of years, from the lowest superstition to the highest conclaves of spiritual faith. It drove us to madness, to war,
to murder, it hung upon us like a disease, like a shackle ball. I'll tell you what religion was... No, you tell me. You, there?'
'Ignorance, sir.'
Thank you, Khanna. Ignorance. Since the earliest times, our species has striven to understand the workings of the cosmos, and where that understanding has failed, or fallen short, we have filled in the gaps, plastered over the discrepancies, with blind faith. Why does the sun go round the sky? I don't know, so I will attribute it to the efforts of a sun god with a golden chariot. Why do people die? I can't say, but I will choose to believe it is the murky business of a reaper who carries souls to some afterworld. ~ Dan Abnett

Life is full of contradictions. We crave security and independence in equal measures. ~ Twinkle Khanna