Aswin's quotes

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"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

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"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
— Ayn Rand

197 people liked it

"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
130 people liked it

"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality
71 people liked it

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

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"A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults"
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

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"Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

tags: corleone, don, godfather, mario, michael, puzo
6 people liked it

"No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. i guess I better help them along a little'."
— Michael Grant(Gone)

tags: gone, grant, michael
10 people liked it

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
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— Michael Jordan

tags: jordan, michael, strength, weakness
2 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,838 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,750 people liked it

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,275 people liked it

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
916 people liked it

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
826 people liked it

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
596 people liked it

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
501 people liked it

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
512 people liked it

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
393 people liked it

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

362 people liked it

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
344 people liked it

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
329 people liked it

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
237 people liked it

"The future depends on what you do today."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, carpe-diem, future, present
222 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,920 people liked it

"The final enemy to be defeated is Death "
— Albus Dumbledore

tags: death, insightful
3 people liked it

"Time is making fools of us again."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: dumbledore, half-blood, harry, potter, prince
5 people liked it

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: fear, unknown
354 people liked it

"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: age, family
167 people liked it

"I know you don't like him, Minister, but you cannot deny-Dumbledore's got style"
— J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: harry, humor, potter
5 people liked it

"What happened down in the dungeon between you and Professor Quirrel is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows."
— Albus Dumbledore - Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone

tags: humor
3 people liked it

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."
— Albus Dumbledore

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"Remember Cedric Diggory. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort."
— Dumbledore

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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— Dumbledore

tags: harry, jk, potter, rowling
2 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
550 people liked it

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
564 people liked it

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."
— Anonymous (The Bhagavad Gita)

108 people liked it

"If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God. Denial of God we have known. Denial of truth we have not known"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: ghandi, hindu, hinduism
4 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
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"Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for?

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay
521 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
365 people liked it

"There is always HOPE.

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: hope, screenplay
331 people liked it

"Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room."
— Bill Gates

tags: activism, choices, life, society
51 people liked it