Asha Parekh Quotes

My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

I tend to end relationships, so she can find somebody better than me. Because I want to be fair to people. I cannot devote enough energy and time and devotion to her. I think that is fair, no?

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.