Nothing is ever left behind. What is left behind is only a want to gain back what has already been lost.
When you understand the ways of the world and still you find yourself amidst clouds of confusion. That’s when you begin to understand human nature.
Love transcends each and every limitation of human interaction.
When we move too fast, the people who are left behind, their memories get rarefied.
Nothing really remains the same and it changes ever so slightly that it’s easy to miss what changed.
The greatest quote is one, not by great men, but one to which you connect greatly.
When you can look back and sternly pinpoint your mistakes and misadventures, you can know that you have grown up.
The biggest deterrent to a man’s success (in most of the cases) is not poverty or lack of opportunity. It is his own laziness.
Whether we are practical or emotional, we end up hurting one or the other.
We can get more of money, power and success but one thing that we cannot get more of, is time.
People you meet, work and live with are the real teachers in life.
There is an invisible air of delusion that sweeps this place.
To feel responsible is the first step towards acting responsibly.
It’s only after you let go, that you can move forward.
Most people do not realise the shortcomings of their life, those who do are the ones constantly fighting happiness.
Love is that butterfly in the wild that you can see, catch, trap, marvel at or maybe preserve it after it dies but can never own.
No one piece of art, literature or sculpture can convey the full-scale human emotions and achievements because they are all conceived by one man at a time.
Why philosophy is so important? Because it is the extract, it is the one sentence for the things that have happened a thousand times, it is the one word that describes a whole aspect of life.
What is the ultimate aim of a life, is it limited to deluding oneself into sports, arts, money, family, career, travel, servitude etc or getting really delusional or wasted or something higher, something that has never been thought of or written about?
Everybody has a central theme in life, which is the blueprint, about which and according to which they want to create their ‘life monument’. For some its money, career/success, parents, a lover maybe, and then there are people who are still yearning to find out their blueprint, lastly the people who neither have nor want to find out theirs.
An extremist can never be loved and without being one you cannot succeed and if one is in the limbo between these two places, he does not get best of both the worlds.
Why does a man who have had too much of solitude wants a gregarious company and one who is surrounded wants solitude?
People can act noble and diabolical circumstantially.
Take your hands out of the pocket and work.
Always be a little hungry and a little tired, so that the next meal and rest are savoured.
There is so little in life that actually matters.
We are so different if we know we are being observed.
If you can support the wishes and desires of your own self, you can be the master of your destiny.
It’s not who you are, it’s what you represent.
People do wrong out of ignorance not intent.
To die in tied laces.
There is a difference between loving for a relation and loving for a reason.
Often the best ideas come when you slow down and take a break.
It is only when you remove the unimportant clutter from your life and mind that you make space for high quality stuff.
Only those people supplicate who does not have a choice.
Take note of times, places and people where you made exceptions. These are close to your heart.
There is another stage of linguistic determinism. When in a language you only know the words for the things you love or hate the most.
Most people are semi-sheep.
The laws of nature are universal, they apply to everything. The laws of philosophy are not universal and so they should be. We need to have exceptions for people we love.
All people are vain, for different things.
Some vanities are exaggerated, and others are downplayed.
Don’t mull over what they might be thinking, you have no idea!
Sometimes, concepts say too much and too little but by wringing out the details they do decrease the cognitive load.
Periodisation of time is another concept derived from a percept.
Lack of a person to talk to, is not always bad for the most important conversations are the one you have with yourself.
Saying everything you feel like and not saying things you didn’t feel like are equally hurtful.
A deficiency in one’s life creates the void which is filled with an excess of something else.
A balanced life is one that has no deficiencies.
To have a good sleep every day is success.
Life in retrospect is a collection of memories and regrets.
Know your place before you speak.
Passing judgement on people is bad but you cannot live without it. As it is necessary to keep your mind decluttered and move on.
Never put yourself in a position where you disagree with your actions.
You are the master of your own doings.
There are two kinds of life problems, one that come incidentally, occurring that is outside our control and the other one is regret of our past doings. While we cannot prevent the first one, the second one is pretty much under our control.
Most things in life, do not and do not have to make sense.
Logical inconsistencies are opportunities to expand intellectual horizons, but personality inconsistencies are abhorrent. For it shows the lack of integrity.
The connection one has with someone who they cannot see, touch, hear, smell but only feel is so intimate.
Some kind of love is like a night of heavy drinking enjoyable fun but then the breakup is like the terrible hangover that lurks and last longer than the party.
It is ironic that a terrible hangover can give a lot of perspective.
Joy in despair.
Let go of meaning of life, since there is no proof of all the earlier claims of religion, ethics, morality and so on.
There are many qualities and virtues one can have, good mannerisms, politeness, honesty and so on. Many, rather most people are judged based on these qualities preventing a look at the most important quality of all. Integrity.
How much we indulge other people is a reflection of our bond with them.
I long to talk to someone before sleeping, I don’t know who that person is, it could be anybody. After all, the longing is still there. I’m glad it hasn’t died.
Never start a fight, but always finish it.
If a favour is done out of emotion, it is not selfless.
If not for death everything will lose meaning and become inconsequential, all experiences will become arbitrary.
A plethora of choices can be paralysing and be a serious obstacle for happiness.
It’s only the worst of the experiences that transforms our perspective most radically.
There are some experiences that one can only have when they have spent months at a place, years at a craft and decades with someone.
A system with rigid norms is like a brick house in the San Francisco Bay area.
Once, even ties had a function.
People can love and hate for a motive!
Wanting to have positive thought is a negative thought and accepting your negative thoughts is a positive thought.
Progress is that humans these days submit to dogma and practice fanaticism less for their belief in it but more for their motives, that’s progress.
English is the Frankenstein of Languages, and that is one of its beauty.
Communication these days has become less about ‘What are they saying?’ to more about ‘How do I feel hearing that?’
Don’t read negative intent in an ambiguous situation. Don’t read yourself!
There is unbelievable amount of shit in our minds.
I accept, I was not as understanding before as I am now, and I cannot promise, if I will remain as I am now. But I will always do my best.
A person’s humility maybe rooted in his incapability to be arrogant, watch out for that!
A virus that sparked Xenophobia and Nationalism, unravelled subterranean racism and evinced the undertone of all global rationalism – Neoliberalism. A virus!
If it is suffocating, any sentient being would want to escape.
It is sad when disappointment overshadows regret.
Plan in weeks for you can control them tightly or plan in years for you can correct yourself from any amount of deviation. Months are just too inconvenient.
I feel good and it’s only going to get better.
Before any compromises can be made, we all ask ourselves, ‘what do we value more, the person or the feeling?’
Beware, before you fill the voids of someone’s personality in your mind with your imagination.
If you do not have the courage to claim what you want, then you will have only what you are given.
An indispensable ingredient of happiness is satisfaction.
The ‘Mean’ by Aristotle.
Only the powerful have the luxury of choice.
Until you are breathing it means you are surviving. So, you haven’t lost, you are never defeated.
If nothing, solemn acceptance of simplicity of life and grandeur of its offerings, not wanting to jump over the fence to the other side and trying to be someone you are not, is enough.
What is the ultimate aim of life? To be happy. No, it is to make others happy as a way to make yourself happy.
Not everything can be stored, saved, repaired or rebuilt.