Swathi Pai > Swathi's Quotes

“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.”
― Amish Tripathi

“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, The Secret of the Nagas

“A man becomes a Mahadev, only when he fights for good. A Mahadev is not born from his mother's womb. He is forged in the heat of battle, when he wages a war to destroy evil. Har Har Mahadev - All of us are Mahadev.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“his burden didn't feel any lighter. but he felt strong enough to carry it”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“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, The Immortals of Meluha

“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, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“Hate is not the opposite of Love. It is apathy.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear
obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite
may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but
perception, viewed through various prisms of context.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“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, The Secret of the Nagas

“Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.”
― Amish Tripathi

“Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting”
― Amish Tripathi

“Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“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, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“Sometimes, truth causes pain and suffering. At such times, silence is preferred.”
― Amish Tripathi, Scion of Ikshvaku

“Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.”
― Amish Tripathi

“It is attachment that makes people forget not only their moral duties but even who they
really are.”
― Amish Tripathi

“Only ur karma is imp. Not ur birth. Not ur sex. And certainly not the color of ur throat
Shiva Trilogy
The Mortals of Meluha pg 86”
― Amish