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I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

Amish Tripathi

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Amish Tripathi
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 18
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Bombay
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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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Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
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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
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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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The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.
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I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, its advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.
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People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting
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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.
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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.
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As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
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No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.
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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.
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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.
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Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want
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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.
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