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QUOTES

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The time of rains has come, my darling, spreading its splendour like a king, with streaming clouds, the rutting elephants, lightning flashes … peals of thunder, beating drums: a season dear to all lovers … Hanging low with the weight of water, sought by thirsty chataka birds, the clouds … rain down in showers with delightful sounds … KALIDAS RITUSAMHARAM
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Software is eating the world … Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen
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Where there is a market supply will follow
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The views make up for the queues.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans … Woody Allen
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Two monks argue if the flag or the wind is moving. A third says, ‘Not the wind, not the flag; the mind is moving.’ A ZEN KOAN
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When life gives lemons, some people make lemonade.
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Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year … CHARLES DICKENS
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It doesn’t matter what the colour of the cat is, as long as it catches the mice.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom … Mao
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If Mohammed does not come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammed.
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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten… When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; and when the heart is right, ‘for’ and ‘against’ are forgotten … Osho
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … CHARLES DICKENS
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Irwing Wallace once said that in a free society, no one should come between an idea and its audience. If that happens the society is no longer free.
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Albert Einstein believed it’s not possible to simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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Good fences make good neighbours … Robert Frost
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It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit… Harry Truman
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Vivekananda said choose: focus on the job or seek credit. Both have divergent consequences.
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If I keep saying that I cannot do a certain thing, it’s possible I may really become incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning … MK Gandhi
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety … wrote Shakespeare in his play Antony and Cleopatra, referring to the Queen of the Nile
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What dreadful hot weather we have ! It keeps one in continual state of inelegance … Jane Austen 1796 moan about what we would now call a heatwave, in a letter to her sister Cassandra
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I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying … MICHAEL JORDAN
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We, who inhabit the earth, dwell like frogs at the bottom of a pool. Only if man could rise above the summit of air, could behold the true earth, the world in which we live … SOCRATES
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Arnold J Toynbee said that history is written in terms of these two words – challenge and response.
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Screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail … Shakespeare
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as the adage goes: ‘Never talk when your mouth is full’
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the poet laureate of puberty… The Washington Post on Tailor Swift
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Mark Antony’s celebrated broadside against a more formidable Roman rival … “But Brutus is an honourable man”
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages … FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affair… Enoch Powell.. western politician
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German sociologist Karl Mannheim argued that young people drive society forward as they are the bearers of new ideas.
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The world will never adjust itself
To suit your whims to the letter.
Some things must go wrong your whole life long,
And the sooner you know it the better.
It is folly to fight with the infinite …
The wiser man shapes into God’s plan
As water shapes into a vessel
ELLA W WILCOX
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the second line in William Cowper’s poem … ‘My right there is none to dispute ‘
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There is a Zen saying: Don’t just do something and sit there
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Dont let the good come in the way of best
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Sanskrit saying … ‘Durjanam Pratamam Vande, Surjanam Tadanantaram’, meaning I salute the wicked one first, then the good, because he taught me what I should not do.
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A logo is a visual representation of what a brand hopes to embody
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Meet together, speak together, let your minds be of one accord, as the Gods of old, being of one mind, accepted their share of the sacrifice … Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together …RIG VEDA
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Choose right over wrong, the lasting over the passing, true happiness over trivial joys. Oot for Spirit not matter: Constantly. Consistently.
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Always the law is: As you think so you become. You will become spirit. Free from the ups and downs of the world. Always happy.
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The Self is immortal. It was not born, nor does it die. It did not come out of anything, neither did anything come out of it … The one who thinks that he is a slayer and the one who thinks that he is slain, both are ignorant. The Self neither slays nor is it slain … KATHOPANISHAD
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To paraphrase Esther Perel, what is the point of living longer, if you can’t do so in harmony with those around you.
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We are connected to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically, and to the rest of the Universe atomically … says astrophysicist NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment … TS Eliot
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You have only to remain quiet and firm in your following of the path and your will to go to the end. If you do that, circumstances will in the end be obliged to shape themselves to your will, because it will be the Divine Will in you … SRI AUROBINDO
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Success has many fathers while failure is an orphan
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Beware of the vice of over talking and consequently under listening
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‘Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are’ … GERMAN POET BERTOLT BRECHT
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To climb to the sixth step, you have to abandon the fifth.
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Mine is only the finger pointing at the moon. If you think my finger is the moon, you are misled.
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Know thyself is an endless endeavour full of riches, for he who knows himself knows all.
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Direct experience is our first teacher
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We lose with every convenience we gain
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Time is the mental measurement of the motivity of action. If there is no action there is no question of any measurement of time. If the moon does not move around the EARTH, no question of  days months or years
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What is lost because it is most precious/what is most precious because it is lost … AMIRI BARAKA
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God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another; … Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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I made mistakes… I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries … FRANK CAPRA
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived… Helen Keller
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The perfect is the enemy of the good… VOLTAIRE
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune… FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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I don’t know anything with certainty. But seeing the stars makes me dream… VINCENT VAN GOGH
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We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence… STEPHEN HAWKING
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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation… RALPH W EMERSION
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Toi editorial 7/9/26

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QUOTES 5/9/26
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I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself…RONALD REAGAN
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This was the great work of Krishn: to clear our eyes and make us look with broader vision upon humanity in its march upward and onward. His was the first heart that was large enough to see truth in all, his the first lips that uttered beautiful words for all… SWAMI VIVEKANAND
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men… VICTOR HUGO
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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning…GLORIA STEINEM
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Civilisation is progress towards a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by laws of his tribe…AYN RAND
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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth… JALALUDDIN RUMI, The Essential Rumi.
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Publius Clodius Pulcher, who once entered Julius Caesar’s palace in woman’s garb to seduce Caesar’s wife, leading to a famous divorce and the precept: “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.”
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“Crito: In what way shall we bury you, Socrates? Socrates answers, ‘In any way you like, but first you must catch Me, the real me. Be of good cheer, my dear Crito, and say that you are burying my body only, and do with that whatever is usual and what you think is best.”
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He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned… WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Tempest.
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‘Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves’…JAMES JOYCE
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Seeing used to be believing –that’s photography. Now, it’s becoming the reverse. If you believe it, you are seeing it. AI is part of that very dangerous process…SEAMUS MURPHY, Photographer.
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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps… CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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No event can occur without a positive, definite cause at the back of it. Everything follows the law of cause and effect. This law is quite mysterious. That is the reason why Krishn says: “Gahana karmano gatih” –mysterious is the nature of action. … SWAMI SIVANANDA
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Oscar Wilde remarked, “We are all standing in the gutter–but some of us are looking at the stars.”

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Kamlesh Tripathi
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You think you know me,
Well, everyone thinks that way.
But believe me, I’m very sneaky,
I’m very tricky,
And I rarely play
By the rules you make for me.
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I show you my left hand
And fleece you with my right.
You think I am very straightforward,
No, I am not.
I am the maze
In which you keep looking for the exit.
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I smile when you are confident,
And frown when you least expect it.
I give you a ladder
Just when you think you are falling,
And sometimes,
When you are almost at the top,
I quietly remove the last rung.
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I am the unexpected guest,
The uninvited visitor,
The sudden rain
At your perfectly planned picnic.
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I give you dreams
And then test your patience.
I give you people
And then teach you about separation.
I give you success
And then whisper, “Don’t get too comfortable.”
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I am neither fair nor unfair.
I simply am.
You call me destiny
When I surprise you,
Luck when I favour you,
Misfortune when I don’t.
You blame God,
You blame people,
You blame circumstances—
But rarely do you blame me.
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Yet I am also the sunrise
After your darkest night.
The stranger who becomes a friend.
The failure that secretly becomes a lesson,
And the heartbreak
That teaches you how deeply you can feel.
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I am contradictory.
I can make you laugh
With tears still in your eyes.
I can make you lose something
Only to make room for something better.
I can take away a certainty
And replace it with possibility.
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So don’t think you know me.
You don’t.
You never will.
Because I am Life—
A little wicked,
A little wonderful,
A little crazy,
And completely unpredictable.
And perhaps that is my greatest trick:
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The road is always better than the inn… MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, SPANISH WRITER.
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Accept the children the way we accept trees with gratitude — because they are a blessing – but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change; you love them as they are… ISABEL ALLENDE
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by…Douglas Adam, intergalactic hitchhiker.
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand… Essayist Thomas Carlyle
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Kausalya Supraja Ram…shlok by sage Vishwamitra on the banks of river Sarayu. The shlok means that their duties awaited.
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You have a right only to perform your prescribed duty, but never to its fruits… Bhagavad Gita
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Tena tyaktena bhunjitha… UPANISHAD means enjoy life and the world through detachment and renunciation without greed.
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A sword to kill a mosquito.
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Shooting first  and asking questions later may be a rule of the Wild West, but does not apply in law…HIGH COURT ON FDA RAIDS BY TUKARAM MUNDHE
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants…GREEK PHILOSOPHER EPICTETUS
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead decrees, ‘Thou shall not oppress a stranger, for ye were once a stranger in Egypt.
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‘Cuius regio, eius religio’ … Whose realm, his religion. Treaty of Westphalia
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay…Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Socrates’ ‘know thyself’ says that the self ‘is nothing other than the soul’. Nietsche asserts that we must build and create our identity throughout life.
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Tat tvam asi… That you are…Chandogya Upanishad
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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it…PAULO COELHO
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after…JRR TOLKIEN
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Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven… JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
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People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better…MARC ANDREESSEN
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I shall…keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act… RABINDRANATH TAGORE, Gitanjali
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Feeding the hand that bites them
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On the fire and in the frying pan.
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Nepal changed the meaning of ‘glacial pace’. Disastrously…BACHI KARKARIA ALEC SMART SAID.
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You are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
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A trust is only as honest as its trustees. … ASHWIN SANGHI ON RAM JANMABHOOMI TRUST
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Choose between two ways of losing… ASHWIN SANGHI ON RAM JANMABHOOMI
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Poet Thiruvalluvar, 2000 years ago, named four marks of an able ruler: to raise wealth, to grow it, to guard it, and to share it.
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Paul Simon’s opening line in the song Sound of Silence “Hello, darkness, my old friend.
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The show is on the other foot.
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Saturn can, indeed, devour his own children.
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And what is ready to harvest dictates what reaches the table…LE DOYENNE, SAINT VRAIN, FRANCE
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Tujhe paa lene mein woh betaab kaifiyat kahan/Zindagi woh hai jo teri justjoo mein kat jai…
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Harkat mein barkat hai
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Happiness is in the process; it’s not in destination. Once we ‘achieve’ our ‘goal’ , Joie de vivre dissipates.
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Paane ki aarzoo mein zinda tha/ Jo mil gaya to Zinda na raha
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Jeewan chalne ka naam, chalte raho subaho shaam