Mostly their troubles were minor ones, for they followed a healthy lifestyle, waking at sunrise to bathe in the river, then spending long hours in study or prayer, followed by daily chores, simple mea...
Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future.
In the things we love lie clues to who we are. What we want for those we love.
I guess that's when people call their mothers - when their world is falling apart.
Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame.
But where love and sorrow bind people together, goodbyes are not so easily said. We were about to discover that.
And that is why, O King Ram, I must reject your kind offer to allow me to prove my innocence again. Because this is one of those times when a woman must stand up and say, No more!
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wro...
We cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.
Mother? Yudhisthir asked. Haven't our scriptures
When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. How
What is it in us that carves negative impressions so deeply into our brains?
The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.
The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.
Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
She taught me to close myself off from the sorrow of others so that I might survive
Love. There’s no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word.
Leela's happiest childhood memories were of aloneness: reading in her room with the door closed, playing chess on the computer, embarking on long bike rides through the city, going to the movies by he...
If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn’t bruise a man’s pride. You’ll have a better chance of success.
Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)