Observations On Life Quotes
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“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”
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“These days, after drinking from the internet's fire hose for thirty years, I've begun to feel more of those negative effects. I don't know if it's my age, or the fact that the internet is no longer plugged into the wall and now travels with me everywhere I go, but I find myself thinking of that Wordsworth poem that begins, "The world is too much with us; late and soon.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Doesn't anybody get tired of it all? Of having the same lives as everybody else, doing the same things as everybody else, following the same rules as everybody else... people are identical to the groups they identify with and they stay in these groups 'til they die and they never really discover who they really are or who they actually can be. It's so boring, so tiring. So many imaginary ceilings, imaginary walls, imaginary limits, imaginary happiness.”
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“If you are ever blessed with an opportunity to experience love from a selfless person, keep them close because they are very rare.”
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“The ability to make others feel good about themselves will take you further than proving that you are the smartest one in the room.”
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“There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.”
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“The degree to which we notice the obvious or the subtle, and the angle of light that we see falling upon it, depends upon how closely we look and the time we spend studying.”
― A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
― A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to escape yourself, but after a while that's all you find there. City is better that way. There are too many lanes and alleys. You never run into yourself there.”
― The Scatter Here Is Too Great
― The Scatter Here Is Too Great
“No time will ever be the right time if we all wait for the right time.Because no one will ever control when the right time is but only to appreciate a certain time and allow it to be right.”
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“Nanaki would be besotted for many hours. She would watch like a novice, like she was in a foreign country, with fresh eyes. Like starting all over again. Like wiping clean a film of experience from eyes and starting afresh, like a child. She would then do a very Chandigarh thing - buy herself a tub of buttered popcorn and continue observing. On days she would get so late that the blue of the sky would deepen into a flush of Prussian. Poor selling boys launched neon frisbees to attract little children taking a walk with parents. The sodium pole lamps would be lit and the water of the bird fountain would become a psychedelic pink. She would continue to observe- not in a way that would make people uncomfortable but in a detached, wholesome way, like she was part of the surroundings. This was also one of the early lessons by her favourite Prof Ramanujan at DCA, who always said that observation was the key. Nature or culture.”
― In The Land of The Lovers
― In The Land of The Lovers

“Sometimes I’m tempted to deny things I haven’t seen with my own eyes. But I’m starting to realize that some people are endowed with the gift of exceptional sight—whether it be foresight, insight, vision, or experience. Some (like me) are privileged to behold the world’s wonder and beauty, while others are obliged to witness more than their fair share of ugliness.”
― The Book of True Believer
― The Book of True Believer

“How observant have you been today, yesterday, last week, all this month? Not so much! Then you have missed nature teaching you and sharing with you the truths of God’s Word (Matthew 6:26–30; Mark 13:28, 29; Romans 1:20; 1 Corinthians 11:14, 15).”
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“Observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. - Chris Geiger”
― The Cancer Survivors Club: A Collection of Inspirational and Uplifting Stories
― The Cancer Survivors Club: A Collection of Inspirational and Uplifting Stories
“Black and White: One of the most amazing combinations, one absorbs everything and other reflects everything.”
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“, it was his observations, prying and intellect which had furthered his wisdom the most. That was why he wouldn’t rely solely on books or the words of others to relate the facts of the world of man, or that of the spirit, or the nature of existence. Since it is very easy for books to be wrong and men to lie, and even his senses could be misled.”
― Way of the Snow Crane
― Way of the Snow Crane

“Our mind is a computer that stores eighty percent of worries in its hard disk and yet continues to stack up more.”
― Disorder of the World
― Disorder of the World

“If you want to know whether someone will change, just look at how often they get offended. People who are easily offended never change. On the other hand, those who swallow criticism well and reflect on it afterward are the meek who are determined to grow and become better people.”
― Lessons From Life's End: Four Short Pieces of Parting Wisdom for a Meaningful Existence
― Lessons From Life's End: Four Short Pieces of Parting Wisdom for a Meaningful Existence
“The world of the afraid live in distraction, and long for connection. Forlorn the society who knew one another beyond the means of their attentive ability.
The foragers of the past now search for survival in the fruitless and shallow ponds of the barren technological scape.”
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The foragers of the past now search for survival in the fruitless and shallow ponds of the barren technological scape.”
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“Obviously none of them dares to actually talk about the painting on the walls, they're far too frightened of accidentally thinking the wrong thing, someone else needs to think something first so they can know what they're allowed to love.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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