Ramayan series by Amish

 

Scion of Ikshvaku

• Be a cautious fighter, move into kill strike only after knowing your opponents psyche.
• Withholding truth is different from lying. Sometimes truth causes pain and suffering, such times, silence is preferred.
• People who compel their leaders to lie aren't worth fighting for..
• Laws are the foundation on which a fulfilling life is built for a community. Laws are the answer.
• It is more important to be right than to be first.
• Even honorable men sometimes prove to be terrible leaders, conversely, men of questionable character can occasionally be exactly what a nation requires. 
• A king need be judged solely on the basis of what he achieves for his people. his personal life is of no consequence. His public life, though, has one singular purpose: to provide for his people and improve their lives.
• Greatness and goodness are just potential in every human but not reality
• We need a king who can create systems with which one can harness even selfish human nature for the betterment of society.
• I want a woman who is better than I am, a woman who will compel me to bow my head in admiration.
• Government has to ensure that it protects the weak, government cannot allow the strong to keep winning, as it would create a discontent among the masses.
• Society should not forget that it thrives on the ideas and performances of the talented among it's citizens.
• The society which succeed is that united by a common purpose.
• You can certainly learn from the successes of great men, you can learn even more from their failures and mistakes.
• I am not so important, is the starting point of humility.
• People will talk nonsense, it is, after all their job.
• Education and health of children is worthiest of all the goals of a nation.
• The common folk will like you simply because the elite don't like you.
• People don't know the law is the reason behind failure of a law.
• Make an effort to make people know their law and give the police power to implement it then you can create a just society.
• You have to make your home (nation), better than what when you were born, before you die.
• If your word of honour is in conflict with the law, then you must break your word and take dishonour upon your name.
• There are enough poor, frustrated, underage youth who can be easily be influence into a life of crime for handful of coins.
• There is no such thing as partial justice, you either get justice or you don't.
• If karma is giving you a negative signal repeatedly, then it is not testing you,  it is trying to teach you.
• The only true ONE GOD is the one who picks no sides, who belongs to everything, who doesn't demand loyalty or fear, in fact, who doesn't demand anything.
• It will get worse, before it gets better.
• There is some positive hidden in every negative and Negative hidden in every positives.
• A fool is worshiped in his home, A chief is worshipped in village, King in kingdom but Knowledgeable person is worshiped everywhere.
• A person become Brahmin by Karma, not by birth.
• When the axe entered the forest, the trees said to each other, don't worry, the handle in that axe is one of us!!!

Sita, The Warrior of Mithila

• When logic fails, faith can serve a purpose.
• Many people are not wise enough to count life's blessing. They keep focusing instead on what the world has denied them.
• It's all very well to be victor, but women's heart usually tends towards the loser.
• There are criminals and gentles in both poor and rich alike. Criminals among the rich are mostly driven by greed. One can negotiate with greed. But the criminals among the poor are driven by desperation and anger. Desperation can sometimes bring out the best in a human being. That's why the poor often becomes noble. But desperation can also bring out the worst. They have nothing to lose. And they get angry when they see others with so much when they have so little.It's understandable. As rulers, our responsibility is to make efforts and change things for the better.
• We must help the truly poor. But we should not be blind and assume that all poor are noble. Not everyone has the spirit to keep their character strong when their stomach's are empty.
• You must use your heart to decide the destination, but use your head to plot the journey. People who only listen to either usually fails.
• Don't fall to stereotypes that powerful are always bad or that the powerless are always good. There is good and bad in everywhere. 
• Society must always aim for balance. it need intellectuals, it need warriors, it need traders and it need artists and it need skilled workers.
• The only ism I believe is in PRAGMATISM.
• Lead me from untruth to truth, lead me from darkness to light, lead me from death to immortality for me and the universe, let there be peace, peace, peace.
• Everyone has to die someday, and society moves on.
• There is no escape from problems and challenges, they are part of life. Running away is never the solution, confront your problems, manage them.
• We carry our karma and leave behind our reputation.
• Find partners you can trust, who are loyal to your cause. Personal loyalty is not important but they must be loyal to your cause.
• It is wise to be prepared for the most unlikely event.
• Reverse-bias is also bias, Reverse-racism is also racism, Reverse-sexism is also sexism.
• The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.
• Never wait and get your retaliation in first.
• Greatness usually comes at the cost of enormous personal sufferings, that's the way it has always been.
• Greatness and happiness are true extreme, if you want to be happy lead a simple life by always not wanting to be great. Happiness is not an accident, it is a choice.
• One is always comfortable in place one looks upon as home.
• Grief overwhelms you when you are alone. But when you find your soulmate, you can handle anything.
• People don't listen to the learned.
• Freedom is good only in moderation, too much of it is a recipe to disaster. 
• There must be few laws, as less as possible.
• Life is not only about what we want, but also about what we must do. We don't just have rights, we also have duties.

Ravan: The enemy of Aryavartha

• When extraordinary good fortune of overwhelming Glory comes to a person, Retreating misfortune increases the power of it's sorrows.
• Better safe than sorry.
• This world is full of selfish people. They will tell you what you want to hear in order to get what they want from you.
• The ones who succeed are the one who are honest with themselves. 
• When you clear about what you want, hide it well so that it helps you get what you want.
• We are successful and strong, only because we don't fool ourselves that we are honourable or good. We know who we are, we accept it, we embrace it. That's why we beat everyone. That's why we will continue to beat everyone.
• If you find someone vulnerable and in serious trouble, help them and then make them your slave for life.
• All of us are victims in some way or the other. But that doesn't mean we should think of ourselves as victims. All of us have been through times when life seemed unfair, in such situations, we can choose to see ourselves as victims and blame rest of the world or we can pick ourselves up. Be strong and fight the world.
• Only if you put your duty above yourself, you can attain a life of dharma.
• We must try to understand and learn, rather than judging.
• Which great man doesn't have a monster inside him. There is one thing that differentiate a successful man from great man: Does the monster control you or you control the monster.
• Be aggressive but for the good of others. Be tough, but only to nurture the weak. Be fearsome, but only to fight for the virtuous.
• Best business deals were struck when both parties were hones about their own interest. 
• There is no one right way, no ideal solution, the world usually suffers most at the hands of those who believe in perfection. Truly wise, however realise that you can only look of for an optimal solution, not an ideal solution.
• There are two ways to waste money. One by giving charity to unworthy and other by not giving charity to worthy.
• Speaking through riddle is fun, and you will understand a thought better if you decode it through riddle.
• The gods like indirect speech.
• Same boiling water, same vessel, same temperature, yet the eggs harden and the potatoes soften. So the boiling water is like stress. Different people react to it differently. It hardens some and softens others. Egg is hard on outside and soft on inside in boiling water it hardens in inside too. Right amount of stress becomes necessary to balance your character.
• Fools react to fire when it is upon them. The wise see it coming many years before it's ever been lit.
• Women never say what they mean. In reality, they dismiss the gentle, domesticated sort of men as weak and unreliable. They want real men-tough, strong men.
• A real man is one who respect himself and treats others with respect too.
• When civilian don't rebel against the crimes of their leaders then they are criminals too.