Top 100 Tripathi Quotes
#1. Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.
John Corey Whaley
#2. The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
Amish Tripathi
#3. 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
#4. Valour begot respect, whether in life or in the aftermath of death.
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#5. Shiva embraced his younger son. 'Give them hell, Kartik!
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#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. There is nothing more pathetic than people hiding their
cowardice behind seemingly noble intentions.
Amish Tripathi
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. It takes a very self-assured man to appreciate the talents of another,
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#14. 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.
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#15. An honest heart is all that is needed for a prayer to reach the Lord.
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#16. 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
#17. In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
Amish Tripathi
#18. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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,
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#23. 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.
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#24. Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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
#28. Smiling takes more effort than it's worth, Your Highness.
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#29. For history is written by victors. They can write it however they want. The losers are always remembered the way the victors portray them.
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#30. Desire is the root cause of all suffering, all destruction,
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#31. With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
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#32. We become gods when we realise that a part of the universal divinity lives within us;
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#33. India is a confused nation today. It does not understand its nature, which seems to be a hotchpotch of the masculine and feminine way. But if you force me to choose, then I would state that, at this point in time, we're a feminine culture in decline.
Amish Tripathi
#34. But the strange thing about anger is that it is like fire; the more you feed it, the more it grows. It takes a lot of wisdom to know when to let anger go.
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#35. The law cannot be broken. It is supreme, more important than you or me.
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#36. I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts ... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.
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#38. I thank Lord Brahma that your preference doesn't extend to a man being loyal to same woman for many lifetimes!
Amish Tripathi
#39. of the birthright of Lord Rudra's successors.' Shiva was getting increasingly uncomfortable. 'Now that Lord Rudra's successor is here, it is time for him to ascend the throne of Kashi,' continued Athithigva. 'It will be my honour to serve you, My Lord.' Shiva almost choked on a combination of
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#40. There is no "your god" or "my god". All godliness comes from the same source. Just the manifestations are different.
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#41. There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.
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#42. Justice exists for the good of the universe. To maintain balance. It does not exist to ignite hatred among humans.
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#43. When logic fails, faith can serve a purpose. Sunaina
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#44. Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
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#46. In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.
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#47. Weak people celebrate when twists of fate hurt their tormentors
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#48. No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
Amish Tripathi
#49. I don't believe in symbolic gods.I believe that god exists all around us.In the flow of the river,in the rustle of the trees,in the whisper of the winds. He speaks to us all the time.all we need to do is listen.
Amish Tripathi
#50. Stability allows a person the freedom of choice, my friend. People can pursue their dreams only when they are living in a society where survival is not threatened on a daily basis.
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#51. If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.
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#52. You must use your heart to decide the destination, but use your head to plot the journey.
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#54. I love you.' 'You're mad!' 'That I am. But I still love you.
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#55. People will talk nonsense. It is, after all, their job.
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#56. It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
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#57. Forgive me for killing you, O noble beast,' he whispered the ancient apology that all hunters offered, as he gently touched the deer's head. 'May your soul find purpose again, while your body sustains my soul.
Amish Tripathi
#58. Laws are the foundation on which a fulfilling life is built for a community. Laws are the answer.
Amish Tripathi
#59. Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.
Amish Tripathi
#60. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk.
Amish Tripathi
#61. 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.
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#62. Justice in terms of "right" or "wrong" is a man-made concept.
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#63. Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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#64. Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave a society based on the rule of law. But as long as you live in such a society you must obey the law.
Amish Tripathi
#65. Maharishikas Gargi and Maitreyi were rishikas, and today there are fools who claim that women are not to be allowed to study the scriptures or to write new ones.
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#66. aryaputra, a 'gentleman', and the aryaputri, a 'lady', a prototypical human partnership of two strong individuals, who didn't compete for exact equality but were complementary, completing each other. Two souls that were dependent on each other, giving each other purpose; two halves of a whole.
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#67. The opposite of love is not hate. hate is just love gone bad.
The true opposite is Apathy. When u just don't give a damn.
Amish Tripathi
#69. If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he will resign himself to his fate and not vent his fury on society at large.
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#70. I never thought my ideas would actually get published.
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#71. The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.
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#74. One of the few advantages of being disliked is that you don't need to fret over what others think about you.
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#75. In the beginning of time, there was nothing except darkness and primordial flood. Then out of this darkness, desire was born. Desire was the primal seed, the germ of creation.
Amish Tripathi
#76. The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.
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#77. Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.
Amish Tripathi
#78. Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
Amish Tripathi
#79. 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
#80. Shiva! The Mahadev. The God of Gods. Destroyer of Evil. Passionate lover. Fierce warrior. Consummate dancer. Charismatic leader. All-powerful, yet incorruptible. A quick wit, accompanied by an equally quick and fearsome temper.
Amish Tripathi
#82. Some good can emerge from the most horrific of events. There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can see both sides.
Amish Tripathi
#83. Bhrigu bent forward. 'Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence they want.' Dilipa
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#84. A society should not forget that it thrives on the ideas and performance of the talented among its citizens.
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#85. There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
Amish Tripathi
#86. Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.
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#87. it was better to commit mistakes on the path that one's soul is meant to walk on, than to live a perfect life on a path that is not meant for one's soul.
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#88. Sometimes, for the sake of the larger good, one has to do things that may not appear right at the time. Perhaps, a laudable end can justify some questionable means.
Amish Tripathi
#89. I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
Amish Tripathi
#90. I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.
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#91. True leader will take sin upon his soul for the good of his people
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#92. The very reason for your success, over a prolonged period of time, can lead to your downfall.
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#93. I am a Woman: an emblem of dignity; loving, caring, healing...scintillating, inspiring and appealing...
Mallika Tripathi
#94. In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.
Amish Tripathi
#95. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a woman who is better than I am; a woman who will compel me to bow my head in admiration.
Amish Tripathi
#96. Truth is one, though
the sages
know it as many .
God is one, though
different
religions
approach
Him differently
Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus
or any other form of God that you believe
in .
Our paths may be different.
Our destination
is the same.
Amish Tripathi
#97. What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
Amish Tripathi
#98. O, treacherous Death! You can't be forgiven for vanquishing my creator to the dust.
Mallika Tripathi
#99. Its your fundamental right to taste the ultimate fruit of success but don't let your soul die in the process.
Mallika Tripathi
#100. Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.
Amish Tripathi
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