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“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

“When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”
― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

“Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
― John Newton

“a good student could learn more from a bad teacher than a poor student from even a skilled teacher.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

“Sexy means loving someone you do not know.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

“A library is a hospital for the mind.”

- Anonymous”
― Alvin Toffler

“Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The first step to self-discovery is to be honest with yourself. Never fool your subconscious.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Money: My Thesis

Money can buy you comfort,
but it can’t buy you peace.
Money can buy you pleasure,
but it can’t buy you happiness.
Money can buy you food,
but it can’t buy you contentment.
Money can buy you delight,
but it can’t buy you love.

Money can buy you praise,
but it can’t buy you honor.
Money can buy you titles,
but it can’t buy you respect.
Money can buy you neighbors,
but it can’t buy you friends.
Money can buy you crowds,
but it can’t buy you God.

Money can buy you religion,
but it can’t buy you faith.
Money can buy you education,
but it can’t buy you wisdom.
Money can buy you medicine,
but it can’t buy you health.
Money can buy you time,
but it can’t buy you life.

Money can buy you a compass,
but it can’t buy you purpose.
Money can buy you luck,
but it can’t buy you fate.
Money can buy you advisers,
but it can’t buy you certainty.
Money can buy you today,
but it can’t buy you tomorrow.

Money can buy you fish,
but it can’t buy you the ocean.
Money can buy you land,
but it can’t buy you the world.
Money can buy you aeroplanes,
but it can’t buy you the skies.
Money can buy you telescopes,
but it can’t buy you the stars.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A GOOD RESEARCHER IS THE ONE WHO REDUCES THE DISTANCE BETWEEN IMAGINATION AND REALITY.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“IF YOU WANT TO BE MORE POSITIVE, THINK NEGATIVE.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Nothing is right and wrong in research, research is an addiction with an endless search for its drug”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar