95 Quotes & Sayings By Girdhar Joshi

Girdhar Joshi is the author of several books on social psychology, philosophy of science, group dynamics, and behavioral economics. He is the founder of the Institute for Applied Behavioral Economics at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. His books include The Scientific Method in Action: Group Dynamics in Action, The Psychology of Economics, The Conscious Mind, and The Psychology of Happiness.

Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man...
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Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man is afraid of something … he will start losing interest in sex. And, eventually he may become impotent. Girdhar Joshi
Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the...
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Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process. Girdhar Joshi
One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through...
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One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature. Girdhar Joshi
When two warring people face each other, the war of...
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When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. Girdhar Joshi
Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first....
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Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later. Girdhar Joshi
Women are women… How can they ignore their bodies, their...
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Women are women… How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses! Girdhar Joshi
Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on...
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Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything. Girdhar Joshi
You can’t ignore our body. It’s the body that houses...
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You can’t ignore our body. It’s the body that houses your healthy mind and a pious soul. Girdhar Joshi
Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the...
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Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world. Girdhar Joshi
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Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings. Girdhar Joshi
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Take time to leave cities, at least once in a year, and go to some natural place, hills, sea, jungles, rivers, where you see nothing but nature… His creations. Where you only hear chirping of birds, clinkering of trees, murmuring of winds, splashes of water in the river, and uproar of waterfalls. Girdhar Joshi
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Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs. Girdhar Joshi
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Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition. Girdhar Joshi
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Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage. Girdhar Joshi
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Had the love been permanent, there won’t have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won’t have been bad blood in the family. Girdhar Joshi
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Simple misunderstanding… and couple forget the lovely moments they spent before marriage and during honeymoon. Girdhar Joshi
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If the pull of the moon can disturb the ocean, why can’t the pull of planets cause a disturbance in the mind of creatures like us. Girdhar Joshi
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You cannot commit the folly of underestimating the power of a mother. Girdhar Joshi
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A woman wields power to build a home or destroy a home. Girdhar Joshi
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We are not sure whether the world ever physically comes to extinction. It may or it may not. But, the moment a person dies everything comes to extinction for him. His world is devastated…. I believe that one should fully live the life before it comes to extinction. Girdhar Joshi
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You should have hopes. Hopes to nourish the courage that helps get success in life. Girdhar Joshi
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In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate. Girdhar Joshi
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Passions cannot take wings in adversity, and adversities remain prevalent because of dormant passions. Girdhar Joshi
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Positive thoughts emanate when we are in a sate of joy and negative thoughts come when we are in a state of sorrow. Girdhar Joshi
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If a woman becomes more dominating on her husband, he may not be as playful in bed as he could be otherwise. Girdhar Joshi
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A woman has to ignite the spark. Rest the nature will take care. …He will lose the match and you will win. Girdhar Joshi
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Sex is in everything. All our novels, songs, films, all the stuff in the name of entertainment is nothing but marketing of sex in multiple and disguised forms. Girdhar Joshi
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Men think it is philanthropy to give away sex. Girdhar Joshi
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Sex is sacred if performed as a culmination of love, if done just to satisfy the lust, it indeed dents the character. Girdhar Joshi
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There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood. Girdhar Joshi
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You must maintain a state of happiness, state of joy to let the positive thoughts emanate from your mind.. If you are in a state of joy, your thoughts emanate positive energy, and you can influence others without much efforts. Girdhar Joshi
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You know your strengths but you must know your weaknesses more. Girdhar Joshi
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Things happen that way if destiny so desires. The whole universe conspires to make it happen. Girdhar Joshi
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Don’t blame any one, including you. There is something called destiny. Girdhar Joshi
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Even expression of love becomes bone of contention if destiny so desires. Girdhar Joshi
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Be happy today, let the past bury and let the future fly. Girdhar Joshi
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The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit. Girdhar Joshi
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In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world. Girdhar Joshi
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Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires. Girdhar Joshi
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God does not live in idols and temples either…of course, idols and temples are some of the ways that remind us of God’s existence. But as you grow up in spirituality, you need to embrace and experience God’s presence through deeds of nature and knowledge of meditation. Girdhar Joshi
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In any relationship, frequent usage of two words is very important. They can change the course of destiny. These words are — Thank You, and Sorry. Girdhar Joshi
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If communication is lost everything is lost in a relationship. Girdhar Joshi
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When things are not really nice in a relationship, desires take a back seat. Girdhar Joshi
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Big skirmishes over small misunderstanding make things bad in a relationship. Girdhar Joshi
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The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics. Girdhar Joshi
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Wealth is to be created first, then to be shared. What to share if there is no wealth? Girdhar Joshi
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Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions. Girdhar Joshi
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Loneliness kills. It becomes more conspicuous in the crowd. Girdhar Joshi
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Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times. Girdhar Joshi
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Keep trying is success and giving up is failure. Girdhar Joshi
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If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle. Girdhar Joshi
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We all are bundles of electric waves or streams of particles — proton, neutron, and electrons. If a piece of metal can be transformed into electric or magnetic waves, so can a string of sound, a thought, and a desire. Girdhar Joshi
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Self-love is beginning but others-love is the end. Self-love is important but insufficient. Girdhar Joshi
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When someone is happy and satisfied with himself and things around him, divine grace resides at his face. Girdhar Joshi
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The seventh element is ‘consciousness’ that raises a human from the basic corporeal state and takes them to super-consciousness. Girdhar Joshi
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When you start thinking from other’s point of view, you will understand him more easily and more completely. Girdhar Joshi
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Sometimes, you have to just act, act in the right earnest way, without bothering about the results. Girdhar Joshi
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Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all? Girdhar Joshi
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We are taught to be free from all vices of life. No greed, anger, lust, and attachment with any mundane things. Girdhar Joshi
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If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind. Girdhar Joshi
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Making a woman fall for a man is a natural talent. You can practice it but you can’t master it. Practice does not make you expert, but dampens your spirits every time you fail. Girdhar Joshi
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Even love becomes a cause of hatred, if stars are not in favour of a man. Girdhar Joshi
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Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city. Girdhar Joshi
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God created a universe where each object is dependent on the other. Nobody is independent. At least, human beings are not. Girdhar Joshi
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In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems. Girdhar Joshi
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Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story… such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time. Girdhar Joshi
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Find excuses to live. Find excuses to be happy. The world provides enormous opportunities to the courageous. Girdhar Joshi
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Being together does not always mean happy. Girdhar Joshi
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Love does not mean just joining lips and belly. It is much more. One should have respect for the other. Girdhar Joshi
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We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives. Girdhar Joshi
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The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost. Girdhar Joshi
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To be precise, there are three gems for healthy life: sufficient workouts, healthy food, and enough sleep. Girdhar Joshi
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We all do make mistakes…many times. What is commendable is that you try to find solutions. You just don’t give up. Girdhar Joshi
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You can make of fool of others but not you.... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not you for your own mistakes. Girdhar Joshi
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With sense of achievement comes satisfaction… and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life. Girdhar Joshi
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Socialism is not panacea and capitalism is not entirely evil. Girdhar Joshi
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If the opponent praises you … you will not believe, you will take it as sarcasm. And, if the opponent curses you and criticizes you, you will not only believe it, you will take it as if he had made a declaration over a notarized stamped paper. So granted and guaranteed. Girdhar Joshi
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When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don’t listen to the opponent. They draw their own conclusions. Girdhar Joshi
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The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions. Girdhar Joshi
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As the lines on the palm and forehead … turned darker and thicker, as he matured along the highs and lows of life-wave, the hazy and blurred phrases shook off the dust of time and dried the moisture of pain, thus being vivid like an image on a carved glass. The incidences in his life ahead sharpened the blunt edges of diamond and the hitherto blurred prophecies found meaning… found reflection… like that in a mirror. Girdhar Joshi
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A man must know the expectations of his woman and a woman must know the expectations of her man. Girdhar Joshi
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Sometimes you want to cry but the tears deceive you, but at other, you just want to hold the tears but they disobey you. Girdhar Joshi
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How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her? Girdhar Joshi
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When you think about a person or object most of the times while you are awake, it is either obsession or it is love. Girdhar Joshi
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Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that. Girdhar Joshi
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Since the days of cave civilization to the modern day microprocessor civilization, the relation between man and woman remained the same. Then it was at a carnal level. And, today it is still at carnal level. Girdhar Joshi
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The lonely evenings in the life of a newly married girl may be really agonizing. Girdhar Joshi
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Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures. Girdhar Joshi
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Don’t look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, and films. Girdhar Joshi
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Before the girl and the boy tie the knot, they feel like falling in love. And most of them do. Cupid works. Biology demands. And, sociology warrants. Girdhar Joshi
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Had the love been perennial, there won’t have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of husbands by wives, who were lovers at a point of time. Girdhar Joshi
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When one is not able to take a decision out of many alternatives, the mind unconsciouslydivides into many parts — sometimes as many as the alternatives. Girdhar Joshi
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If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living. Girdhar Joshi
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Perhaps it is easy for men to start a conversation by admiring women. Many times they may not mean it, but still they say it. Women may not believe it, but still they like to believe it. Girdhar Joshi