Mrunal Thakur Quotes

I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.

It's hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

That was the biggest compliment that I can receive - making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

A true initiation never ends.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.