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“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”
― Anthony Robbins

“Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.”
― Holly Mosier

“Privileged did not
mean special; just fortunate. And fortunes could change in a flash”
― Kavita Kané, Sita's Sister

“Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.”
― Kavita Kané, Sita's Sister

“I cannot stop thinking about you. It is like you are with me all the time. I can almost feel you at times. But I don’t fight it anymore. You
are there with me and I am comforted by that thought”
― Kavita Kané

“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Once in my room I had to stop every loophole, to close the shutters, to dig my own grave as I turned down the bed-clothes, to wrap myself in the shroud of my nightshirt.”
― Marcel Proust

“Sometimes in the afternoon sky a white moon would creep up like a little cloud, furtive, without display, suggesting an actress who does not have to ‘come on’ for a while, and so goes ‘in front’ in her ordinary clothes to watch the rest of the company for a moment, but keeps in the background, not wishing to attract attention to herself.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them;”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“I learned that identical emotions do not spring up in the hearts of all men simultaneously, by a pre-established order. Later on I discovered that, whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe,”
― Marcel Proust

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music, that the field open to the musician is not a miserable stave of seven notes, but an immeasurable keyboard (still almost entirely unknown) on which, here and there only, separated by the thick darkness of its unexplored tracts, some few among the millions of keys of tenderness, of passion, of courage, of serenity, which compose it, each one differing from all the rest as one universe differs from another, have been discovered by a few great artists who do us the service, when they awaken in us the emotion corresponding to the theme they have discovered, of showing us what richness, what variety lies hidden, unknown to us, in that vast, unfathomed and forbidding night of our soul which we take to be an impenetrable void.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search Of Lost Time (All 7 Volumes)

“it appears that vice is far more common than one has been led to believe.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“the morrow would not be different from all the days that had gone before;”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
― Milan Kundera

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“fidelity deserved pride of place among the virtues: fidelity gave a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“But the world was too ugly, and no one decided to rise up out of the grave.”
― Milan Kundera

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.”
― Swami Vivekananda, OUR WOMEN

“In happiness and misery, remember one thing. Sex and wealth are the great symbols of manhood. They are inspiring symbols. They sustain life. But they are unbridled. There is no knowing when they will run amuck. Their reins must at all times be in the hands of duty.’ Oh man, desire is never satisfied by indulgence. Like the sacrificial fire, it ever grows with every offering.”
― Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust