Menon Quotes

#1. The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

Robert Fulghum

#2. That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

V. K. Krishna Menon

#3. The well padded astrologer stroked his corpulent belly, as he stared down intently at his cowrie board. There was a frown on his moon shaped face, a face that had always considered good rich food his birthright, even as he strove to read the cryptic messages that the Gods were strewing before him.

Deepti Menon

#4. We are eternal beings, existing in time.

Shilpa Menon

#5. Scars heal when you learn to FLY.
F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself).

Shilpa Menon

#6. It takes a whole lot longer to pull ourselves together than it takes to fall apart..

Shilpa Menon

#7. To enter the corporate rat race, you need to become a rat.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#8. Misunderstanding is one of the worst of ill feelings which can spoil many lives.

Lakshmi Menon

#9. Most scars are destined long before they are experienced. Healing is however, a choice.

Shilpa Menon

#10. He wondered if he should feel a stab of jealousy - Dimple bonding so well with his muscled, much cooler younger brother - but all he felt was this warm, almost gooey feeling in his chest. Like his heart was wrapped in microwaved Nutella.

Sandhya Menon

#11. But that was Rishi... he was like a pop song you thought you couldn't stand, but found yourself humming in the shower anyway.

Sandhya Menon

#12. Ninety percent of the songs and movies we listen to and see are based on love. We like to talk most about the things we don't have.

Arathi Menon

#13. Awareness is the eye through which we can experience abundance.

Shilpa Menon

#14. May the radiance of what you love, reflect in whatever you do.

Shilpa Menon

#15. The thought of hope is the seed to healing.

Shilpa Menon

#16. So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir)

Krishna Menon

#17. He lit the night he brought with the fire that puts out the planets when time ends.

Ramesh Menon

#18. The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#19. The dividing line between a journalist and an author is very thin. If a journalist is not author, it is his or her call.

K.S.R. Menon

#20. Calm is not a place where there is no noise or activity. It is the ability to be in the midst of these,
yet experiencing peace within.

Shilpa Menon

#21. Do not let others drive that vehicle, called life, for you. Grab that steering wheel and discover unexplored destinations.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#22. What separates the best from the rest is just the attitude.

Shilpa Menon

#23. The poorest of women is the one without close girlfriends

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#24. The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow.

Shilpa Menon

#25. With time, scars turn into wisdom.

Shilpa Menon

#26. One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Ramesh Menon

#27. A roof of harmony can only be built on top of pillars of tolerance.

Shilpa Menon

#28. The power to heal the scars begins with hope.

Shilpa Menon

#29. The quality of your awareness determines the quality of life you experience.

Shilpa Menon

#30. Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell.

Ramesh Menon

#31. Brahma emerged from the right side of Mahesa, Vishnu from the left and Nilarudra from his heart. In the beginning, intoning AUM, Sadasiva created the universe. Siva is Pranava and Pranava is Siva.

Ramesh Menon

#32. When you're angry you act according to your emotions, not with your mind.

Lakshmi Menon

#33. Don't seek, let go & what you are searching for will find you.

Shilpa Menon

#34. Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to.

Shilpa Menon

#35. The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult.

Nivedita Menon

#36. Against all odds, beyond every logic, there is hope.

Shilpa Menon

#37. Life can be a beautiful journey if you accept who you are and accept the people around you for what they are.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#38. She wept for her hardheadedness, and for a world that couldn't just let her be both, a woman in love and a woman with a career, without flares of guilt and self-doubt seeping in and wreaking havoc.

Sandhya Menon

#39. If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#40. The funny thing about a smile is that once you wear a smile, the darkness lightens and one does not feel frightened or sad any more.

Deepak Menon

#41. I suggest you all ask your mothers to make you some smiles and keep them in your pockets. If you ever find any one feeling sad or frightened or angry, then you can give them a smile and you will see what a change takes place.

Deepak Menon

#42. Freedom is the right to live without fear.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#43. The first time Akash took Supriya to view the pool, I rose up in strident protest, and he was astonished by the way she turned her face away, her eyes filled with terror. "I am petrified of water!" she whispered, as he tried to cajole her to at least put her feet in.

Deepti Menon

#44. It's easy to make money, a lot tougher to make a difference

Shilpa Menon

#45. Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.

Shilpa Menon

#46. Failure is the price paid for a lesson. Learn from it.

Shilpa Menon

#47. Hope is the first step to healing

Shilpa Menon

#48. leadership is about courage and the ability to overcome unsurmountable challenges,

Sudha Menon

#49. In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear, trying desperately to warn her of impending danger.

Deepti Menon

#50. Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts.

Devdas Menon

#51. When you start loving yourself, others around you will also start loving you.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#52. This is our life. We get to decide the rules. We get to say what goes and what stays, what matters and what doesn't.

Sandhya Menon

#53. Healing begins with owing your scars & disowning that which caused them

Shilpa Menon

#54. The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.

Deepti Menon

#55. May the radiance of what you love, manifest in whatever you do.

Shilpa Menon