Pravin Kumar

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali

“Samay ruka nahin, hum kyon theher gaye?
Abhi toh hum chale hi nahin, phir kyun thak gaye?
Utho Pathik, mat bhramittho, dhoomil andhiyaare mein –
Shreshtha wohi jo ghira nahin ho kshanik nirasha mein –
Jago! Jago! Man mat behlao!
Ek Maseeha tum bhi ban jao!”
― Anil Swarup, Ethical Dilemmas of a Civil Servant

“If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.”
― Stephen Hunt

“As the neuroscientist, Daniel Freedman, who studies the foraging practices of Red Harvester ants, once remarked to me: "The world is sensory rich and causal poor". That is to say, we know the donut tastes good in the moment, but we are less aware that eating a donut every day for a month, adds 5 pounds to our waistline.”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence