It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
-Jean Cocteau
Nothing is final in history. It always moves on. Peace must be built again and again.
-Thorbjørn Jagland
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
-B. R. Ambedkar
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Love and anger are two names of the same energy. If you learn to use one
properly...the second by itself gets channelized in fruitful tasks.
-Deep Trivedi
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changing
circumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.
-Deep Trivedi
