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"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?"

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."

"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."

"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

"Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all."

"Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem."

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
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"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."


"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."


"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."


"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."


"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
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