Muralidharan Quotes

#1. Everything has a reason, though it cannot always be deduced for we cannot see the full picture of a life at any point in time.

Indu Muralidharan

#2. I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.

William Shakespeare

#3. Society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

Sydney Biddle Barrows

#4. We live in the deep sea, surrounded by pressure that could kill us in an instant, with no access to the surface world, that is our natural home.

G.R. Matthews

#5. Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient.

David Schnarch

#6. To take off the collar required a blacksmith. He

C.S. Pacat

#7. Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Duke Ellington

#8. I need to breathe again." Each word vibrated as though torn from his very soul. They wrapped around her with their thorny edges and cut in deep. "I need to feel what it's like not to be dying inside." The tip of his nose grazed the side of her face lightly, barely even a whisper. "I need you.

Airicka Phoenix

#9. First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe ... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Aristotle.

#11. When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Indu Muralidharan

#12. Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

Auberon Waugh

#13. each copy of a book has its own unique personality. Reading a book from the library is not the same as reading another copy of the same book from the same library, which is again completely different from reading
your own copy of the book.

Indu Muralidharan

#14. How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from his
creation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.

Indu Muralidharan

#15. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.

Indu Muralidharan

#16. Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.

Indu Muralidharan

#17. Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.

Indu Muralidharan

#18. I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Indu Muralidharan

#19. I hated this love that I had for my family - love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.
I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty.

Indu Muralidharan

#20. Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.

Indu Muralidharan

#21. Often, people get a temporary high, a fleeting sense of belonging and well-being from the illusion of strength that comes from attaching themselves to gurus, without realizing that the energy they associate with the so called holy person comes from within themselves.

Indu Muralidharan

#22. Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#23. Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.

Indu Muralidharan

#24. It is curious how the weak-minded among us are wired like that, the way we turn subdued and silent when confronting real bullies and yet stand up almost aggressively to those who are genuinely kind to us.

Indu Muralidharan

#25. I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

Gordon Lightfoot

#26. My painful memories sift through me like sand through stretched fingers. Only small pieces cling and stay around for me to keep, the rest just disappear. I know not where and I don't

Willow Madison

#27. Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear.

Indu Muralidharan

#28. The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.

Carl Von Clausewitz