Anirudh Sharma Quotes & Sayings

From the end of 2005 until the middle of 2007, Wall Street firms created somewhere between $200 and $400 billion in subprime-backed CDOs: No — Michael Lewis

We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice "who we are" until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be. — Miguel Ruiz

Always be true to yourself regardless of the consequences. I assure you not doing so has even greater consequences. — Thorin

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. — Michel De Montaigne

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self. — Barbara Ascher

That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place, they were educated to believe it, and they would have believed anything else in the same manner. There are also many who have been so enthusiastically enraptured by what they conceived to be the infinite love of God to man, in making a sacrifice of himself, that the vehemence of the idea has forbidden and deterred them from examining into the absurdity and profaneness of the story. — Thomas Paine

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. — Lucretius

We all began female, and always had both sexual hormones in us. We always had masculine and feminine behavioral traits, which we had to train into gender-appropriate behaviors, even though they were traits that everyone has. We selectively encouraged or repressed traits, so for most of our history we have reinforced gender. But in our deepest selves we were always both. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Dare to love. What is life without a spark of love? — Lailah Gifty Akita

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them. — Epictetus

The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience. — Gregg Braden

Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world. — Diana Wynne Jones