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Dhruv Bhandula

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Dhruv is Currently Reading

Dhruv Bhandula is currently reading

Summer Lightning (Blandings Castle, #4)

by P.G. Wodehouse

bookshelves: favorites, fiction, humour, blandings-castle, currently-reading

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Brigham Young: A Life from Beginning to End (Old West)

by Hourly History

bookshelves: currently-reading, biographies, short-biographies, christianity, non-fiction, my-kindle-library

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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz

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Dhruv’s Notes & Highlights

Funny Side Up by Ruskin Bond

1 note & 8 highlights

The monkey population is definitely on the increase, and I wouldn't be surprised if one day it exceeds the human population. Of course, the way things are going, a time may come when we won't be able to distinguish between monkeys and ...more

Brilliant introductory line

Dhruv’s Quotes

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: encouragement, expectations, proactivity, self-development

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“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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“On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”
― Albert Einstein

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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
― Pico Iyer

tags: inspirational, love, self-awareness, travel

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