R.K. Narayan Quotes

Life is about making right things and going on.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.

Hijras are a sexual minority that is visible, and yet we are treated as the invisibles. I believe I was never invisible. I thought, "I'm the face in the crowd, not the crowd."

Leadership is all about raising the aspirations of people.

Everybody has got 5.5 liters of blood. I am just a human being. For me everybody are same.

Every page turnedshould be the page read

Answers to the most bewildering questions can be got only when asked to oneself

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...

If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.

Religions were never meant to be followed but thought for. It turned nasty when was turned into human ego, blasted straight out of furnace of hatred for fellow being.

To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer.

Friends, try to understand 'what is what'!!

Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.

I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.''You are very considerate to explain it this way, ' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk

It's the ego, not your soul which progresses when your passion turns into an obsession.

My religion starts from where your arguments end.

It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world.

Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker.

I wasI will beI am

OUR SUCCESS IN THIS MORTAL LIFE IS JUDGED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAVE FOOLED THROUGHOUT.

Staring is half the victory in love.

experience is nothing but maturity. maturity is nothing but experience

She could not bring herself to turn away from the night sky, for the stars and the blackness were the only escape she had when old faded memories returned to haunt her.

All our thought process should be concentrated on merger of soul with the vital life. When this realisation is achieved, it leads the soul from Atma to Paramatma, one in poccession of all.

We are our best guide and a friend. Our problems arise when we start looking for one elsewhere.

Before fighting for truth, find the truth.

Generate an idea which you can follow, not what people would interpret.

Neither right nor wrong. It is all manipulation of thoughts.

You areBut why?