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"Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'"
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"Never do what the devil provokes you to do."
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Personal Development
"If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death."
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"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger."
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"Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun."
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"In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose."
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"To cultivate bravery and courage, Do It Scared. Being scared is a precursor to bravery, otherwise, it wouldn't be bravery, would it? Mustering the courage to stretch beyond your familiar territory is a rewarding act in itself."
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"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."
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"When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves."
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"When you overcome fear, you will be strengthened by faith."
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"Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite tartan rug across his knees and his beloved son, Yuvraj the exporter of handicrafts, by his side, and when he stopped breathing the bees stopped buzzing and the air silenced its whispers and Yuvraj understood that the story of the world he had known all his life was coming to an end, and that what followed would follow as it had to, but it would unquestionably be less graceful, less courteous and less civilized than what had gone."
Legacy
"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
Meaning
"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
Enemy
"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
Events
"And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and about abandonment in general, and in particular fatherlesness, the lessness of fathers, the lessness of the fatherless, and the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness. The lessening from which growing could begin."
Growth
"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."
History
"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
Nature
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
Act
"I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story."
Art
"Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment."
Mental Health
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