Ratna Srivastava > Ratna's Quotes

“Writing is like taking crap; you can't stop it even if you wanted to.
Writing is like being God of a universe where you wield lethal powers of creation and destruction while you candidly sip your coffee.
Writing is like living several lives all at once. And so is reading!”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“We both are thieves: time and I. I steal time from time. If I don't, the time steals me.”
― Ratna Srivastava

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Life likes to do to us what we do to it. If we are scared of it, it scares us too. If we try to escape it, it gets us by our neck.If we try to chase it, it slips us by. If we love it, it simply loves us back.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“I don't mind being a bitch to bitches. It is orgasmically satisfying! And dumb bitches? You don't even exist in my universe.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“If you focus on the things that you can do, then the things that you can't, recede in insignificance.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“The more you fear, the weaker you become. The farther you run away from it, the closer it gets. If you hide, it finds you out. But the moment you spin around and face it, the tables turn. The game changes. Your fear dies the same death it was planning for you.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“How do you define the fools and the wise? You can't. Perspective and perspective alone does that.
The wise think the fools are fools. The fools think the wise are fools. The whole saga ends and nobody discovers who was what.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“You need your friends to love and support you but you need an enemy to make you accept challenges you otherwise wouldn't, to bring out hidden potentials you didn't even know you had, to force yourself on a path you otherwise wouldn't go.
Enemies bring out the best in you. So, if you have enemies, rejoice! You have a fair chance of being more fantastic than you already are.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“If your mind is in chains, nothing can free you. If your mind is free, nothing can enslave you. You can't become anyone's prisoner before becoming your own prisoner first,
-Emit Eht

Emit Eht, Ratna Srivastava, Philosophy, Life, wisdom, intelligence, inspirational, motivational,”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“Sometimes nothing happens for centuries; sometime so much happens in a few seconds.Sometimes nothing changes all your life; sometimes one moment changes your whole existence.Sometimes a lifetime of love fails to suffice; sometimes just a word is enough...!
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“There's a land somewhere out there, beyond ours, beyond stars, beyond the sun;And the clouds that you see floating in the blue sky are only the floor I walk barefoot on...
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“If you are wise but weak your wisdom is futile; if you are fearless but fool your courage is a waste.Wisdom and fearlessness go hand in hand. One is quite useless without the other.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“But even hope can do nothing for you if you do nothing other than hope.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“When you have purpose, it flashes through your eyes, blazes through your gait, rings in your step and shines through every single thing you do. The beauty of purpose is if it's there it's everything. If it isn't there, it's nothing.
When clouds purpose to embrace the earth, they become tornadoes. When dust purposes to kiss the sky, it becomes dust storm.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“The outcome of a mistake determines it was a mistake or not, because the problem with them is often times you don't know if you are making one.
Most people actually think they are the genius of the century while only being the fool of a millennia.
Also vice versa..!
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“So you think a grain of sand is nothing? Try putting it in your eyes.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“Mind is a technology we haven't started using yet.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“Depending on how you look at it, even hell can be a paradise, or paradise a hell.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“New problems need new solutions. And new solutions bring new problems.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“I get a different view of this world. I look at the stars!
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“There are things that are so easy that their very ease render them difficult for people to comprehend, and they assume that since it can't be so easy, must be infinitely difficult.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“When we focus on our weaknesses, we become normal. When we focus on our strengths we become extraordinary.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“If you always do what you always did, you will always do what you always did.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“One tends to look at life a whole lot differently when one realises they may lose it soon.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“Sometimes honour brings you insult. Sometimes shame gets you fame.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“The only cure to bitches is bitching.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“Let bitches be bitches; they get to do what they do best while you get your peace of mind and a good laugh!
-Emit Eht.”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“Those who need it seek it. Those who seek it find it.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht

“For a learner, every obstacle, every failure, every difficulty, every enemy, every stumbling block turns into lessons and opportunities. For a non-learner, every opportunity, every chance, every solution, every path is nothing more than a hurdle.It's your attitude that makes the difference.
-Emit Eht”
― Ratna Srivastava, Emit Eht