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“Certain things might appear to be bad or wrong in our eyes but if we try to look at from a different angle it would appear true or right.”
― Joseph Jose

“തിരിച്ച് സ്നേഹിക്കില്ല എന്നറിഞ്ഞിട്ടും നീണ്ടു നിന്നേക്കില്ല എന്നറിഞ്ഞിട്ടും പിന്നേയും സ്നേഹിക്കാൻ പറ്റുന്നതാണ് 'സ്നേഹം' എന്ന വാക്കിനെ അത്ഭുതമാക്കുന്നത്.”
― Joseph Annamkutty Jose, Daivathinte Charanmar - You Could Be One

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“The two board games that best approximate the strategies of war are chess and the Asian game of go. In chess, the board is small. In comparison to go, the attack comes relatively quickly, forcing a decisive battle.... Go is much less formal. It is played on a large grid, with 361 intersections — nearly six times as many positions as in chess.... [A game of go] can last up to three hundred moves. The strategy is more subtle and fluid than chess, developing slowly; the more complex the pattern your stones initially create on the board, the harder it is for your opponent to understand your strategy. Fighting to control a particular area is not worth the trouble: You have to think in larger terms, to be prepared to sacrifice an area in order eventually to dominate the board. What you are after is not an entrenched position but mobility. With mobility you can isolate your opponent in small areas and then encircle them... Chess is linear, position oriented, and aggressive; go is nonlinear and fluid. Aggression is indirect until the end of the game, when the winner can surround the opponents' stones at an accelerated pace.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Deeply our life is a confusion, a mess, a misery, an agony. The more sensitive we are, the more the despair, the anxiety, the guilt feeling, and naturally we want to escape from it because we haven’t found an answer; we don’t know how to get out of this confusion. We want to go to some other realm, to another dimension. We escape through music, through art, through literature, but it is just an escape; it has no reality in comparison with what we are seeking. All escapes are similar, whether through the door of a church, through God or a savior, through the door of drink or of various drugs. We must not only understand what and why we are seeking, but we must also understand this demand for deep, abiding experience, because it is only the mind that does not seek at all, that does not demand any experience in any form, that can enter into a realm, into a dimension that is totally new.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Relationships to Oneself, to Others, to the World