Swarada > Swarada's Quotes

“Quantitatively speaking, 'conversation' is inversely proportional to economic standing. If you are traveling in a bus, your fellow passengers will get into a conversation with you very quickly and without any reservation. If you are traveling by first class on a train, people will be more reserved. If you are traveling by air, then the likely hood of getting into a conversation is quite small. If you are in first class on an international flight then you may travel 24 hours without exchanging a single word with the person sitting next to you.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise and Otherwise

“Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set. Nor are there model answer papers.”
― Sudha Murthy, Wise & Otherwise

“Struggle is lyf”
― sudha murthy

“If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others’ happiness.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise & Otherwise

“Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision is merely passing time; but vision and action together can change the world.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise & Otherwise

“connect”
― Sudha Murty, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven: 20 Inspiring Real-Life Stories

“Each patient is precious. Be careful. If a patient dies, it is just one more hospital death for the doctor. But for the unfortunate family, it is a permanent loss.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise & Otherwise

“I knew then that to come up in life you require talent, hard work, aggression and connections.”
― Sudha Murty, How I Taught My Grand Mother to Read and Other Stories

“it is not the institution, ultimately it is you and you alone who can change your life by hard work.’ Probably he was not aware that he was following the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Your best friend is yourself and your worst enemy is yourself.”
― Sudha Murty, How I Taught My Grand Mother to Read and Other Stories

“We should always have some aim in life which we must try to achieve while being of help to others.”
― Sudha Murty, Grandma's Bag of Stories

“return because he is one god who loves his devotees”
― Sudha Murty, Gently Falls the Bakula

“You should not be so sensitive. Sensitive people suffer a lot in life.”
― Sudha Murty, How I Taught My Grand Mother to Read and Other Stories

“Men can do certain things well and women other things. Men and women are complementary to each other. One need not prove one’s strength.”
― Sudha Murty, How I Taught My Grand Mother to Read and Other Stories

“Rich or poor, it is good to do our own work and be fit.”
― Sudha Murty, A Cure For Laziness

“There is a difference between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is boring, whereas in solitude you can inspect and examine your deeds and your thoughts.”
― Sudha Murty, How I Taught My Grand Mother to Read and Other Stories

“She says the secret to her positivity lies in the simplest of things: gratitude for each and every simple pleasure of life.”
― Sudha Murty, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven: 20 Inspiring Real-Life Stories

“Money should come slowly over a period of time. Then only does one respect it. Whether it’s a man or a woman, earning too much money in too short a period is as bad as excess liquor.”
― Sudha Murty, Wise & Otherwise