Best Amish Quotes

#1. If he lived through this night, he'd look back on this moment and recall seeing the universe in all its majesty and recognizing he was only a powerless man staring into the vastness of an all-powerful God.

Cindy Woodsmall

#2. In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

Amish Tripathi

#3. These descendants divined myths in what was really history, for true memories were forgotten in chaos as vast arrays of daivi astras used in the Great War ravaged the land. That war destroyed almost everything. It took centuries for India to regain its old cultural vigour and intellectual depth.

Amish Tripathi

#4. Hate is not the opposite of Love. It is apathy.

Amish Tripathi

#5. Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

Amish Tripathi

#6. I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community.

Thom Browne

#7. Remember nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people,

Amish Tripathi

#8. If you decide to challenge your destiny, your opponent would not be some judgemental Lord Almighty who is seeking to punish you; your opponent would only be the limitations of your own mind. This will empower you to fight your fate.

Amish Tripathi

#9. Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want

Amish Tripathi

#10. Faith is very potent weapon

Amish Tripathi

#11. I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?

Amish Tripathi

#12. Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe.

Amish Tripathi

#13. When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

Amish Tripathi

#14. Smiling takes more effort than it's worth, Your Highness.

Amish Tripathi

#15. For history is written by victors. They can write it however they want. The losers are always remembered the way the victors portray them.

Amish Tripathi

#16. If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

Amish Tripathi

#17. A real leader doesn't choose to lead only the deserving. He will, instead, inspire his people into becoming the best that they are capable of.

Amish Tripathi

#18. I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

Amish Tripathi

#19. The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.' Sita

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#20. Even among the Amish, other Amish seem odd.

Ira Wagler

#21. Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.

Beverly Lewis

#22. At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

Amish Tripathi

#23. Valour begot respect, whether in life or in the aftermath of death.

Amish Tripathi

#24. The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

Howard Rheingold

#25. Shiva embraced his younger son. 'Give them hell, Kartik!

Amish Tripathi

#26. Only your karma is important. Not your birth. Not your sex. And certainly not the colour of your throat. Our entire society is based on merit.

Amish Tripathi

#27. Hate is love turned bad.

Amish Tripathi

#28. I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!

Amish Tripathi

#29. There is nothing more pathetic than people hiding their
cowardice behind seemingly noble intentions.

Amish Tripathi

#30. The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?

Amish Tripathi

#31. A leader is not just a person who gives orders. He is also the one who symbolises the society he leads. If the leader is corrupt, then the society must be corrupt too.

Amish Tripathi

#32. Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

Amish Tripathi

#33. We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.

Nancy Grossman

#34. But you must remember that while you can certainly learn from the successes of great men, you can learn even more from their failures and mistakes.

Amish Tripathi

#35. It takes a very self-assured man to appreciate the talents of another,

Amish Tripathi

#36. You need energy for everything that you do. You have to source the energy from around you. It comes from people, from objects, from Mother Earth herself. You have to ask for it respectfully.

Amish Tripathi

#37. A mental choice, absent a real heart change, is no choice at all. We couldn't force ourselves to be something we were not. That just couldn't happen. And it didn't.

Ira Wagler

#38. An honest heart is all that is needed for a prayer to reach the Lord.

Amish Tripathi