Amish Tripathi
11 quotes
Biography
Amish Tripathi is an author, former diplomat, broadcaster and entrepreneur from India. He is among the fastest-selling authors in Indian publishing history, known best for The Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series.
"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."
"There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is butperception, viewed through various prisms of context."
"There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"But remember, great Good will, more often than not, lead to great Evil."
"This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves."
"Shared secrets have way of creating bonds"
"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."
"The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence."