Persistence isn’t very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
“नहीं, मेरे जीवन की कोई बात गुप्त नहीं है। गुप्त वे बातें रखी जाती हैं, जो अनुचित होती हैं। गुप्त रखना भय का द्योतक है, और भयभीत होना मनुष्य के अपराधी होने का द्योतक है। मैं जो करता हूँ, उसे उचित समझता हूँ, इसलिए उसे कभी गुप्त नहीं रखता।”
― चित्रलेखा
― चित्रलेखा
“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind.… That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“But as the Countess Rostov liked to remark: If patience wasn’t so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . .”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“व्यक्तित्व की उत्कृष्टता किसी भी बात को काटने में नहीं होती, उसे सिद्ध करने में होती है; बिगाड़ने में नहीं होती, बनाने में होती है।”
― चित्रलेखा
― चित्रलेखा
“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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