.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Growth quotes
"To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life."
"Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win."
"The only thing that could cleanse our society is when our messages is focused on diligence, hard work and been faithful in little."
"The content of a man is the life he possesses inside."
"If you don't have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly."
"Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery."
"If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself."
"Every limitation must be overcome to realised the goal."
"Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life."
Explore more quotes by Salman Rushdie
"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart."
"Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. "Time travelers," said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. "They're everywhere these days."
"Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths."