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“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha

“Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.”
― Elliot Kay, Its Your Right To Be Wrong

“Charity has been made into a great virtue only because of the low level of human decency.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“The person who has not seen the face of trust - has seen nothing. The person who has not found contentment - has found nothing.”
― Idries Shah

“Victory and defeat. Who would the glory belong to?”
― Fast Food Restaurant, King of Gods Book V

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“If you know almost nothing, almost anything will tell you something.”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business

“I don’t speak philosophy. I’m not in my full version.”
--Pico”
― Misba, The High Auction

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little.”
― Jay Shetty

“Remember, saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Complainers, like the friend on the phone, who complain endlessly without looking for solutions. Life is a problem that will be hard if not impossible to solve. Cancellers, who take a compliment and spin it: “You look good today” becomes “You mean I looked bad yesterday?” Casualties, who think the world is against them and blame their problems on others. Critics, who judge others for either having a different opinion or not having one, for any choices they’ve made that are different from what the critic would have done. Commanders, who realize their own limits but pressure others to succeed. They’ll say, “You never have time for me,” even though they’re busy as well. Competitors, who compare themselves to others, controlling and manipulating to make themselves or their choices look better. They are in so much pain that they want to bring others down. Often we have to play down our successes around these people because we know they can’t appreciate them. Controllers, who monitor and try to direct how their friends or partners spend time, and with whom, and what choices they make. You can have fun with this list, seeing if you can think of someone to fit each type. But the real point of it is to help you”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“The arrogant ego desires respect, whereas the humble worker inspires respect.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“Well, that's pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind. If you happen to be a little innovative, or maybe you forgot to come to school one day because you were reading a book or something, that's a tragedy, that's a crime―because you're not supposed to think, you're supposed to obey, and just proceed through the material in whatever way they require.
And in fact, most of the people who make it through the education system and get into the elite universities are able to do it because they've been willing to obey a lot of stupid orders for years and years―that's the way I did it, for example. Like, you're told by some stupid teacher, "Do this," which you know makes no sense whatsoever, but you do it, and if you do it you get to the next rung, and then you obey the next order, and finally you work your way through and they give you your letters: an awful lot of education is like that, from the very beginning. Some people go along with it because they figure, "Okay, I'll do any stupid thing that asshole says because I want to get ahead"; others do it because they've just internalized the values―but after a while, those two things tend to get sort of blurred. But you do it, or else you're out: you ask too many questions and you're going to get in trouble.
Now, there are also people who don't go along-and they're called "behavior problems," or "unmotivated," or things like that. Well, you don't want to be too glib about it―there are children with behavior problems but a lot of them are just independent-minded, or don't like to conform, or just want to go their own way. And they get into trouble right from the very beginning, and are typically weeded out. I mean, I've taught young kids too, and the fact is there are always some who just don't take your word for it. And the very unfortunate tendency is to try to beat them down, because they're a pain in the neck. But what they ought to be is encouraged. Yeah: why take my word for it? Who the heck am I? Figure it out for yourself. That's what real education would be about, in fact.”
― Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince