Quotes - Tara Rajendran (tararajendran) (India) Showing 1-30 of 31

#1

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: defeat

2234 likes

#2

“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: anxiety, being-scared, believing-in-yourself, bravery, faith, fear, overcoming-fear, positive-thinking, scared, trust, worry

394 likes

#3

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

tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation

5274 likes

#4

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

6856 likes

#5

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

7849 likes

#6

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

9447 likes

#7

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4309 likes

#8

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

1723 likes

#9

“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: inspirational

1202 likes

#10

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

1157 likes

#11

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

1148 likes

#12

“Without fear there cannot be courage.”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: bravery, courage, fear, inspirational

1340 likes

#13

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.”
― John Maxwell, Failing Forward

33 likes

#14

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
― John C. Maxwell

203 likes

#15

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

8184 likes

#16

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

3453 likes

#17

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

2289 likes

#18

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

tags: psychology

1219 likes

#19

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animals, cruelty, goodness

832 likes

#20

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: philosophy-of-life

648 likes

#21

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

563 likes

#22

“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”
― Schopenhauer, Arthur, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

520 likes

#23

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: religion

402 likes

#24

“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

309 likes

#25

“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

241 likes

#26

“Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

126 likes

#27

“A snake that sheds its skin is still a snake.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

8 likes

#28

“Men have choices that women don’t.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

9 likes

#29

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

8261 likes

#30

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

2109 likes

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