Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
Sometimes it is hard to explain why you find a person beautiful.
If it is too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
Some problems in the world seem to exist solely for women. Like not having anything to wear.
Thank you. For showing me what love is all about. And thank you for also teaching me to never love someone too much.
Tiny bumps in time shape our lives, even though we spend hours trying to make long-term plans.
In an Indian love marriage, by the time everyone gets on board, one wonders if there is any love left.
Girlfriends come and go but, thank God, mothers don’t break up with you.
That’s what human relationships are about – selective sharing and hiding of information to the point of crazy confusion.
Sometimes, when nobody is by your side, you have to become your own cheering squad.
Everyone is a psycho, and the average of all psychos is what we call normal.
Girls never tell you anything straight out anyway. You have to interpolate and extrapolate their responses to figure out what’s on their mind.
Excel in your field: Whatever you do, try to be the best at it. There is too much mediocrity all around and we have learnt to live with it. However, awesomeness has no place for mediocrity. And do not confuse excellence with elitism. Being excellent at your work is different from considering yourself superior to others.
I am a businessman. To me, people only do things out of self-interest.
Ignore girls and they can’t leave you alone.
If we think it is okay to cheat in exams, lie to a ticket collector in the train about our kids’ ages and pay a bit of money to avoid a big traffic fine, then at some level we clearly don’t care about eliminating corruption all that much. At.
Don’t fall in love with her again, a voice within me warned. You never fell out of love with her, another voice countered with an evil laugh.
He went to the board to write lots of Greek symbols and calculus equations. The course had started with cute little things like how people choose between tea and biscuits. It had moved on to scary equations that would dominate exams. The class took mad notes. Kanyashree wrote so hard I could feel the seismic vibrations from her pen’s nib.
On the court our occasional touches meant little. In the room, her jostling me felt electric. I wanted to grab her tight, but didn’t. I didn’t want a scene like last time.
Suddenly, in this lap of luxury, I felt lonely. I missed home, my hostel room and my mother, all at the same time. It is funny how class works. The moment you are placed in a higher one, a part of you feels terrified and alone.