Jagjit Singh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, itâ€™s emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney.
-- Jagjit Singh

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The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.
-- Jagjit Singh

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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

Jagjit Singh famous quotes

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