Awakening of the mind is in waking up the kind feelings in the heart with an insight of the soul to distinctly identify and galvanize definitely the shade of darkness created by the colour of...

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a...

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.

There is something cathartic about what has happened to me during this stay in hospital. I’ve heard others say that coming face to face with your own mortality can have this effect. You look with...

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn’t exist anymore. That the person I missed didn’t exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And...

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That’s bound to be. That’s living. But later there’s a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something...

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, “You build and do not destroy; you...

I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare — or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad — who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling particularly...

There’s a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

Fugit irreparabile tempus.

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one’s dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice...

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world– an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Our world’s future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Rush-hour on the A rain. A blind man staggers forth, his cane tapping lightlyown the aisle. He leans against the door,raises a violin to chin, and says I’m sorry to bother you, folks. But please....

Lowell’s best friend was the heroically moustached art director of a tobacco magazine that published in the same building where Lowell worked at plumbing. His name was Harry Balmer, and despite the evidence of his...

the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears.

Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say...

Greed and corruption isn’t in the world.It’s in the people”.

Leave your excuses and live your dreams!

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

I reckon if you care for someone and you can’t have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they’re going to find...

…there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:”He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is...

You never know who it’s going to be, or what they’ll bring, but whatever it is, it’s always exactly what is needed.

And so, when she heard if Hare Krishnas, she didn’t hear right. She heard “Hairless Christians”, and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her in...

Magic,” her mother said, “is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.

Everyone’s perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

You only lose what you cling to.

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the...

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,’ I said. ‘By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn’t true. The world is only broken into two tribes:...

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It’s jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off...

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn’t know how to handle.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn’t like it, and changed.