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Lair Of The Monster Lair Of The Monster by Shon Mehta
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“One of the saddest feelings is when you realize that you are leaving a place where no one will miss you, and going to a place where no one is waiting for you.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“The presence of the person you hate is far more agonizing than absence of the person you love.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“If someone tells you that their house is on fire, you don't show them larger fire in other people's houses to cheer them up! If a Person tells you they are unhappy, stop telling them to cheer up because other people's sorrows are greater than theirs.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Failure rarely happens in an instant. It usually happens slowly, bit by bit. It is important to acknowledge and admit failure before things go out of hand, so that one can make amends to contain the damage.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“You have an amazing life, you know it, everybody else knows it, and yet you feel that ending your life makes more sense than living it.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“In the land of tolerant, the intolerant rule.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Some people want the whole world to go hungry so that they can appreciate the value of food in their plate.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“When it happens against us, it is a war crime. When it happens against our enemy, it is collateral damage.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“One can never know the thrill of a climb if one is born at the top.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“War is not a fairy tale where someone is good, someone is bad, someone is hero, or someone is villain. In a war, everyone is working to serve their own interest.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Even if you win the war, no magic that will happen to take us out of this poverty.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Poverty is so time consuming, I don’t want to be poor anymore.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“One can read, talk, and think about poverty, but one can never understand poverty until one has experienced it.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Attractive people are often unaware of the power their good looks give them – they attribute it to their skills.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“In my younger days, I craved for love more than I craved for weed. Then I realised that weed is easier to get than love.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Languages we speak give us different personas. Some languages can make us sound angry and aggressive, while some others can make us sound friendly and polite.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Training is only as good as how one performs in the battle, People won’t remember how hard one trained before battle, but people will remember how one fared during the battle.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“We humans are so self-centred. Even the thoughts after someone’s death are never about them, they are about us. How it makes us feel, how it impacts our lives.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Power is the lair that breeds monsters. Often, a new ruler enters the lair imagining himself to be a hero who is there to kill the monster. However, as time passes, he himself becomes the monster that needs to be killed.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“The day we start thinking that we are perfect and cannot do anything wrong is the day we move away from reality to delusion.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“When you see a beautiful building you admire its creator, but when you see a ruined building do you admire its destroyer? Legacy comes from what you create, not from what you destroy.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Every moment should not be approached with a motive of gaining something out of it. When we enjoy something, we should just stop and relish that moment.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“The more we deny the possibility of death, the more it will scare us. Think about death as a certainty, and start seizing every moment as our last.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Your worth does not depend on how good you are at your work. It depends on how important your work is to others, and how irreplacable you are in doing that work.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“When someone is drowning, its good to try and help them save their life, but if the drowning person is pulling you down as well, it is time to let them go.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“We don't hate criminals, we only hate failed criminals. In fact, we secretly admire criminals who are rich and successful.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“The world is full of judgemental people. Each of us have some weakness, and world notices and judges us on this weakness. Sometimes it is about our craziness, sometimes it is about our bitterness, our brokenness, or something else. So we learn to hide that part of our personality, and present a false personality which world will approve. But, then we feel trapped by our false image, and feel like an imposter. Once in a while, someone comes along, sees our true self, and accepts us with our craziness, bitterness, brokenness without any judgment, and becomes our friend.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“If you have no family, you will feel sad sometimes — but if you have the wrong kind of family, you are doomed for life!”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“Every one has a relative that they are ashamed of.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster
“In war stories, nobody gets to play the part they want, and no war story ever has a happy ending.”
Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster

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