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“All programmers are optimists”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

“Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies. ”
― Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

“Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.

The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.

When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.

In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’

And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country?

The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“A 'very good friend' is a dangerous category with Indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress or if you play it wrong, you can go down to the lowest category invented by the Indian women ever - rakhi brother. Rakhi brother really means 'you can talk to me, but don't even freaking think about anything else you bore'.”
― Chetan Bhagat, The 3 Mistakes of My Life

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us...”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“It is impossible to grasp another human's inner world. But even in the darkness of the densest forest, there can always be the light of a firefly.”
― Krupakar, Birds, Beasts and Bandits: 14 Days with Veerappan

“The love of money is the root of all evil."

The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
― Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

“Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.”
― Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace

“Love? I need a lot of love."
Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need.”
― Chetan Bhagat, One Night at the Call Center

“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Follow your dreams and take your risks.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries

“Religion means to know God and to love Him.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

“In India, the past refuses to die, undisturbed by new realities.”
― Paul William Roberts, Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India

“Everywhere you looked in India there was evidence of a past that had attained mythical heights. From philosophy to architecture,
few civilisations have left such an awesome record.”
― Paul William Roberts, Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India

“People – Americans, mostly – realise how attached they are to material comforts when they arrive in India.”
― Paul William Roberts, Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”
― Plato, Meno

“We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
― Plato, Meno

“Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh