Patriots Wise Quotes

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Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, So ... Love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't. Life is 10% what you make it 90% how you take it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Have and show motivation to do and learn. That's the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Time change - Moments don't.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love" "Period
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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I know a wise Buddhist monk who, in a speech to his fellow countrymen, once said he'd love to know why someone who boasts that he is the cleverest, the strongest, the bravest or the most gifted man on earth is thought ridiculous and embarrassing, whereas if, instead of 'I', he says, 'we are the most intelligent, the strongest, the bravest and the most gifted people on earth', his fellow countrymen applaud enthusiastically and call him a patriot. For there is nothing patriotic about it. One can be attached to one's own country without needing to insist that the rest of the world's inhabitants are worthless. But as more and more people were taken in by this sort of nonsense, the menace to peace grew greater.
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E.H. Gombrich (A Little History of the World)
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The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life doesn't walk away, we do.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS...
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Don't just build a career, build a legacy.
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Abhijit Naskar (Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism)
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Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as "EGO" in our Society
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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We all have this perfect little image of who we want to be, but it is unnecessary. Throw the image away. You're already you just be the best version of yourself.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Opportunity comes to everyone it depends on you whether you take it or leave it. Learn to take risks and play hard because at the end you'd be thankful for your struggle.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved ,until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Its not your fault for not being there. Its my fault for thinking you would be
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M" is silent.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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In the end it will be your β€œActions” β€œConvictions” & β€œThoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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How long you will live in your dreams? The time is now, it's better to go and follow them..
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror...
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: β€œDo as you please.” β€œDo as you please.” To the young, I would whisper, β€œThe Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is β€œsquare”. In the ears of the young marrieds, I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: β€œOur Father, which art in Washington” . . . If I were the devil, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I’d get organized. I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I’d tranquilize the rest with pills. If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine yound intellects but neglect to discipline emotions . . . let those run wild. I would designate an athiest to front for me before the highest courts in the land and I would get preachers to say β€œshe’s right.” With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus, I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house, and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons but not wise enough to control them. If I were Satan, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas, a bottle. If I were the devil, I would take from those who have and I would give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And then, my police state would force everybody back to work. Then, I could separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines, and objectors in slave camps. In other words, if I were Satan, I’d just keep on doing what he’s doing. (Speech was broadcast by ABC Radio commentator Paul Harvey on April 3, 1965)
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Paul Harvey
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It’s all about β€œPriorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy
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Abhysheq Shukla
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The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our 'EYE' and Close our 'I
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The only principle of Success in Life :"You must be present to win.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we are interested in improving rather than proving.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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A lot of pain that we are dealing with are really only THOUGHTS.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment.Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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Don’t keep those people in your life who are completely negative in approach. Eventually these people will stress you out and be the source of your downfall.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Kindness with expectation is no kindness.
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Abhijit Naskar (Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism)
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Catallactics does not ask whether or not the consumers are right, noble, generous, wise, moral, patriotic, or church-going. It is concerned not with why they act, but only with how they act.
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Ludwig von Mises (Epistemological Problems of Economics)
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The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions.The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep.It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create miracles.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life is about the moments you create,that you can keep with you forever.After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis,But it's everything in life
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Life is a university, you will keep learning new things all the time. The tombstone will be your degree.Make sure it's worth a fortune for those who admire you.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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The most important subject in the curriculum in the future years will be how to love ourselves and be content.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Karma is the balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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LIFE - Death's Very Emissary
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Abhysheq Shukla (KARMA)
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[I]f the public wants the military to perform better, give more prudent advice to its civilian leadership, and spend taxpayer money more wisely, it must elect a Congress that will dial down a few notches its habitual and childish 'we support the troops!' mantra and start asking skeptical questions - and not accepting bland evasions or appeals to patriotism as a response.
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Mike Lofgren (The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted)
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Literacy rate tells us about the section of society who can read and write, but do we have a tool which can share the stats about out how many educated illiterates we have in our society.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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If someone talks bad about us, we feel bad. If someone talks good about us we feel good. The question is ,Have we given our remote to others for the way we feel? Live your life in your way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perform what is right.
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Abhysheq Shukla
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A person with good heart is always happy. However its a myth because most of the time his heart is full of wounds as it except only good thing from others still he love the people who treat it right & pray for the ones who don't
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
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Joel Barlow (The Columbiad)
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Ah, yes, the "unalienable rights." Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What "right" to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What "right" to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of "right"? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is "unalienable"? And is it "right"? As to liberty, the heroes who signed the great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. The third "right"? - the "pursuit of happiness"? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can "pursue happiness" as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.
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Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers)
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At his leisure, the lieutenant allowed the unforgettable spectacle to engrave itself upon his mind. With one hand he fondled the hair, with the other he softly stroked the magnificent face, implanting kisses here and there where his eyes lingered. The quiet coldness of the high, tapering forehead, the closed eyes with their long lashes beneath faintly etched brows, the set of the finely shaped nose, the gleam of teeth glimpsed between full, regular lips, the soft cheeks and the small, wise chin… Wherever the lieutenant's eyes moved his lips faithfully followed. The high, swelling breasts, surmounted by nipples like the buds of a wild cherry, hardened as the lieutenant's lips closed about them. The arms flowed smoothly downward from each side of the breast, tapering toward the wrists, yet losing nothing of their roundness or symmetry…The natural hollow curving between the bosom and the stomach carried in its lines a suggestion not only of softness but of resilient strength, and while it gave forewarning to the rich curves spreading outward from here to the hips it had, in itself, an appearance only of restraint and proper discipline. The whiteness and richness of the stomach and hips was like milk brimming in a great bowl, and the sharply shadowed dip of the navel could have been the fresh impress of a raindrop, fallen there that very moment. Where the shadows gathered more thickly, hair clustered, gentle and sensitive, and as the agitation mounted in the now no longer passive body there hung over this region a scent like the smoldering of fragrant blossoms, growing steadily more pervasive… Passionately they held their faces close, rubbing cheek against cheek…Their breasts, moist with sweat, were tightly joined, and every inch of the young and beautiful bodies had become so much one with the other that it seemed impossible there should ever again be a separation…From the heights they plunged into the abyss, and from the abyss they took wing and soared once more to dizzying heights…As one cycle ended, almost immediately a new wave of passion would be generated, and together -with no trace of fatigue- they would climb again in a single breathless movement to the very summit.
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Yukio Mishima (Patriotism)
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The old legends of America belong quite as much to the blue-eyed little patriot as to the black-haired aborigine. And when they are grown tall like the wise grown-ups may they not lack interest in a further study of Indian folklore, a study which so strongly suggests our near kinship with the rest of humanity and points a steady finger toward the great brotherhood of mankind, and by which one is so forcibly impressed with the possible earnestness of life as seen through the teepee door! If it be true that much lies "in the eye of the beholder," then in the American aborigine as in any other race, sincerity of belief, though it were based upon mere optical illusion, demands a little respect. After all he seems at heart much like other peoples.
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That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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Before the troops left Rome, the consul Varro made a number of extremely arrogant speeches. The nobles, he complained, were directly responsible for the war on Italian soil, and it would continue to prey upon the country's vitals if there were any more commanders on the Fabian model. He himself, on the contrary, would bring it to an end on the day he first caught sight of the enemy. His colleague Paullus spoke only once before the army marched, and in words which though true were hardly popular. His only harsh criticism of Varro was to express his surprise about how any army commander, while still at Rome, in his civilian clothes, could possibly know what his task on the field of battle would be, before he had become acquainted either with his own troops or the enemy's or had any idea of the lie and nature of the country where he was to operate--or how he could prophesy exactly when a pitched battle would occur. As for himself, he refused to recommend any sort of policy prematurely; for policy was moulded by circumstance, not circumstance by policy. . . . [T]o strengthen [Paullus'] determination Fabius (we are told) spoke to him at his departure in the following words. 'If, Lucius Aemilius, you were like your colleague, or if--which I should much prefer--you had a colleague like yourself, anything I could now say would be superfluous. Two good consuls would serve the country well in virtue of their own sense of honour, without any words from me; and two bad consuls would not accept my advice, nor even listen to me. But as things are, I know your colleague's qualities and I know your own, so it is to you alone I address myself, understanding as I do that all your courage and patriotism will be in vain, if our country must limp on one sound leg and one lame one. With the two of you equal in command, bad counsels will be backed by the same legal authority as good ones; for you are wrong, Paullus, if you think to find less opposition from Varro than from Hannibal. Hannibal is your enemy, Varro your rival, but I hardly know which will prove the more hostile to your designs; with the former you will be contending only on the field of battle, but with the latter everywhere and always. . . . [I]t is not the enemy who will make it difficult and dangerous for you to tread, but your fellow-countrymen. Your own men will want precisely what the enemy wants; the wishes of Varro, the Roman consul, will play straight into the hands of Hannibal, commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian armies. You will have two generals against you; but you will stand firm against both, if you can steel yourself to ignore the tongues of men who will defame you--if you remain unmoved by the empty glory your colleague seeks and the false infamy he tries to bring upon yourself. . . . Never mind if they call your caution timidity, your wisdom sloth, your generalship weakness; it is better that a wise enemy should fear you than that foolish friends should praise. Hannibal will despise a reckless antagonist, but he will fear a cautious one. Not that I wish you to do nothing--all I want is that your actions should be guided by a reasoned policy, all risks avoided; that the conduct of the war should be controlled by you at all times; that you should neither lay aside your sword nor relax your vigilance but seize the opportunity that offers, while never giving the enemy a chance to take you at a disadvantage. Go slowly, and all will be clear and sure. Haste is always improvident and blind.
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Livy (The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal)