Nirav Patel > Nirav's Quotes

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.79”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

“Humans are attracted to each other’s rough edges.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” - The Dalai Lama”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“The two go together. You cannot be an attractive and life-changing presence to some women without being a joke or an embarrassment to others. You simply can’t. You have to be controversial. You have to polarize. It’s the name of the game. And getting good at the game is learning to open yourself up enough emotionally, learning”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“That my most important values are honesty, empathy, and intellectual curiosity. That I’m unwilling to tolerate women who don’t make me happy, no matter how hot they are.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“How attractive a man is is inversely proportional to how needy he is. The more needy in his life, the less attractive and vice-versa.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
― Osho

“You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”
― Osho

“To live in the moment is innocence, to live without the past is innocence, to live without conclusions is innocence, to function out of the state of not knowing is innocence. And the moment you function out of such tremendous silence which is not burdened by any past, out of such tremendous stillness which knows nothing, the experience that happens is beauty. Whenever you feel beauty—in the rising sun, in the stars, in the flowers, or in the face of a woman or a man—wherever and whenever you feel beauty, watch. And one thing will always be found: you had functioned without mind, you had functioned without any conclusion, you had simply functioned spontaneously. The moment gripped you, and the moment gripped you so deeply that you were cut off from the past. And when you are cut off from the past you are cut off from the future automatically, because past and future are two aspects of the same coin; they are not separate, and they are not separable either. You can toss a coin: sometimes it is heads, sometimes it is tails, but the other part is always there, hiding behind. Past”
― Osho, The Book of Wisdom: The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism. Commentaries on Atisha's Seven Points of Mind Training

“The first and foremost thing is to be loving toward yourself. Don't be hard; be soft. Care about yourself. Learn how to forgive yourself— again and again and again— seven times, seventy-seven times, seven hundred and seventy-seven times.

Learn how to forgive yourself. Don't be hard; don't be antagonistic toward yourself. Then you will flower. And in that flowering you will attract some other flower. It is natural. Stones attract stones; flowers attract flowers. And then there is a relationship which has grace, which has beauty, which has a benediction in it. And if you can find such a relationship, your relationship will grow into prayer, your love will become an ecstasy, and through love you will know what God is.”
― Osho, The Book of Woman

“How to love my mother? A mother has to be loved in a totally different way. She is not your beloved—and cannot be. If you become attached too much to your mother, you will not be able to find a beloved. And then deep down you will be angry with your mother—because it is because of her that you couldn’t move to another woman. So it is part of growth that one has to move away from the parents. It is just like your being in the womb and then having to come out of it. That was leaving your mother, in a way . . . in a way, betraying her. But if inside the womb the child thinks that this will be a betrayal—‘How can I leave my mother who has given birth to me?’—then he will kill himself and the mother also. He has to come out of the womb. First”
― Osho, Book of Man

“One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.”
― Osho

“I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.”
― Osho

“Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.”
― Osho

“We try hard to be NICE. We try to be good to people even when they are abusive to us because that’s what good people do, right? And this trial period keeps draining you because how can you be good all the time? How can you love others when you are hurt yourself? How can you be kind when you need to help yourself? You keep trying to meet the criteria of being a good person until you kill something inside you. And then suddenly you realize, oh, I need healing?”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Romanticize the actions that you take for yourself. Acknowledge your desires and turn them into something better than your imagination. It’s all about making an effort for yourself.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Make your life like a garden where you have all types of people and interests and hobbies so that you always have something or someone to love and receive love. Have friends you adore, enjoy the hobbies you are passionate about, water your plants, and love your pets. Create things and build that relationship around you that keeps you excited so that love is always around you in every form. Life will be more colorful that way”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“If there is anything that can be crueller than death, it’s nurturing false hope in your heart just to see them crushing every piece of you at the end.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do. »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« Though, what I realized over time is thatIt’s not pathetic to be alone. I realized that we don’t hate being alone. We hate to believe that we are left behind.  »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“If you cannot figure out who you are, figure out who you are not and who you don’t want to be.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“If you want to know yourself, you have to be interested in yourself for the rest of your life.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« After college, you don’t make friends. You just network.  »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Everyone is already romanticizing their life. They just don’t know the nature of their character yet.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« your biggest enemy and critic is no one else but YOU.Before anyone else, you know what you are up to, and before anyone can, you pass judgments on your next move based on ‘what you think people will think of you’Look around you, no one’s judgments are louder than your own in your life. »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Make sure, you don’t make that mistake. Give your opinions only when specifically asked. Otherwise, keep your thoughts inside you.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Don’t let time slip from your hands. Educate yourself, train yourself and most of all have fun with yourself.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage