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Words that emerged from years of writing, healing, and observing the human condition — on love, identity, relationships, and the quiet courage it takes to live fully.
These are original quotes by Dr Sonia Sharma, Indian author of romance and historical fiction.
Dr. Sonia Sharma
"Love is not about finding the right blend of desired attributes in a person. It is a journey to discover the other as well as yourself and to accept each other with the flaws, the imperfections they come with."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"A relationship that obscures the identity of another person isn't love. Love is about acceptance more than expectations."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"Love aimlessly the one you desire or desire the one who loves you back. You can't make do with one without the other."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"True love is not a destination. It's an endeavour you undertake willingly and keep working on it tirelessly."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"Relationships are not about being judgmental, and trust is not a unidirectional entity. Each one of us is entangled in an assortment of varied relationships, much like a Venn diagram. There's only as much you can probably do to make them co-exist, but sometimes in keeping with the sanctity of one, the other would have to be kept at bay."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"The only perfect relationship is the one you have with yourself. The rest is made livable if you are at peace with yourself."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Forever is a promise that hinges upon illusion — an illusion that might mirror an intent but overlooks circumstances."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"Two people in a marriage can be as divergent as the branches of a tree and still complement each other."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"I'm a woman and not a commodity, that my relevance depends on the suffix that states my Father's name or my Husband's to render me legitimate. Their names are for my identification, an address of sorts. They can't become my identity."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"You are liberated when you do the right thing without the fear of judgment and the expectation of applause."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"A mother is born when she wants to have a baby — not when she gives birth to one. That's just biology."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"A woman becomes a mother only if she wants to have a child and not when she gives birth to one."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"A few strings of DNA may exhibit certain characteristics in the way we look; they aren't a testimony to the love a parent feels for his or her child. Or else there would be no children abandoned by their parents, no children abused or made to beg or steal."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"With the choice of attire and accessories, don't forget to wear your attitude that's unique to you alone."
— Dr. Sonia Sharma
"When a man doesn't kiss and tell, it means that he respects the woman with whom he had spent the private moments. You should be feeling secure with him, knowing you wouldn't be discussed either if anything were to go wrong between him and you."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"A rhythm of the heart, the wild child of love, the raindrop that morphs into the ocean's pearl — a desire to fall in love with yourself all over again."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Life is on till the rhythm of the heart is alive. Make way for love. You never know what'd touch your heart to help it beat again."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Life is a marathon and not a 100-metre race. We win only if the exchange of batons happens with a smooth transition."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Life is not what we always plan it out as, but the beauty of life lies in its unpredictability, the exuberance that accompanies the surprises, the fear of the unknown and the passion that drives us uphill to conquer what was thought to be unreachable — an Eldorado before someone got there for the first time."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Life is a mysterious gift wrapped in layers of gift paper. Enjoy peeling each layer with enthusiasm and fondness. Because by the time you reach the final layer, you might be running out of time to live another moment."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Life is on till the rhythm of the heart is alive. Make way for love. You never know what'd touch your heart to help it beat again."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"If the breaths we take measured life, the earth will be infested with the living dead. Be alive — and not just be living."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"There's only one thing that's perfect in life — death. Because that's when you cease to evolve."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Death doesn't just do people apart. It rips them apart. It shreds the one who's left behind, and even if you put those pieces together, you aren't the same person anymore. All your life, you are just stitching the gaping wounds that keep opening from one place or another."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"It's the scars that sum up the experiences of our life — a testimony to the fact that humans have this miraculous capacity to heal, to be whole again after being broken."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Emotions are like illumination. They never come without the shadows of the past — sometimes good, and even if not so good."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
Life is extremely unpredictable and has this funny way of springing surprises — sometimes kind, or otherwise. We can survive if we have our anchors strongly pivoted and buried deep: our family and friends. Don't forget to spend time with them."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"The biggest victims of our Armed Forces' nationalism are their children who grow up with absentee parents — either serving their duties or having lost their lives in avoidable battles."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
'The saddest reality about a Betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.'
— Dr Sonia Sharma
Success
"Success isn't always in reaching the destination we set out for ourselves. But sometimes, in exploring alternate possibilities while we travel through the rough patches."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Success is not a habit, but the sum of our hard work, missed deadlines, failed endeavours, and several sleepless nights."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Making success a habit can curb our experimental streak."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
Failures
"Let the failure drive home a message that there are more ways to succeed than the one already chosen and followed."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Let's learn to get wiser — not merely learned."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Education is not only about reading textbooks. That is just literacy. Education is about keeping your eyes and ears open and observing things keenly — about trying to find the appropriate questions before you look for answers, and finding the aetiology of a situation before you go out and address it."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Research is a search for answers we might not get in the very first attempt, or we might never get them — but we go on and find alternatives."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Our life path will decide the design of our destiny. Choose yours wisely."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Darkness has its own magnificence. It lets us light up the areas we want to enhance."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"We can't let our past gain strength over our present and destroy our future."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Memories are the most beautiful treasures of the human mind."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"No two people can share the same dream if they don't want to. If you opt out, it doesn't make you a bad person — because you owe it to yourself, to your own dreams, your own life."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"The story of evolution is inked in the ashes of the dead."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"When the roadblocks happen — fly."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"The burden of expectations we carry on our heads is by far the heaviest burden."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Greater the burden of expectations, harder it is to accept the loss."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Perspective is a war constantly fought in our heads — toying with varied narratives overflowing through the intellectual word stream."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Truth is not a unidimensional entity. We are entangled in varied relationships much like a Venn diagram. There's only as much we can do to make them co-exist. Sometimes, in keeping with the sanctity of one, the others need to be kept at bay — and it's okay."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Communication is a very powerful adhesive that binds two people in a sustainable relationship. Breakdown of communication is what gives rise to perceptions, second-guessing and misunderstandings."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"There's always everything there to lose in conflicts. The damage is collateral — whether you want to be a part of it or you are forced to join it."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Remorse is a pertinacious acknowledgement of the sins of our past — an over-indulgence of self-pity after the clock has moved. Repentance is an actionable response, a determination to do the course correction to nullify some of the damaging effects of that sin."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"People are sensitive when they are vulnerable. Don't treat them as projects if it doesn't fetch them substantial gains."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"When you act like the one you despise, you should know that he's the one having the last laugh."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"Rights without the sense of responsibility is the recipe for disaster."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
"When politics becomes the chessboard for the game of thrones — the battles are inevitable."
— Dr Sonia Sharma
These quotes emerge from a life spent writing, healing, and telling the stories of Indian women. Explore the novels they come from.