Swatantra Quotes & Sayings

If this saying did not exist, somebody would have invented it.
— Joe R. Lansdale

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day? — Pema Chodron

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. — Rosellen Brown

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate. — Abraham Pais

Any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles. — Michael Lewis

I've been so busy staying alive I never thought of what this must be like for my parents. — Andy Weir

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. — Maureen Dowd

there's no such thing as time management since you can't manage something you can't control. — Christine Louise Hohlbaum

If the first plan you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan. If this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn, with still another, and so on until you find a plan which does work. — Napoleon Hill

The greatest adventure is soul seeking. — Lailah Gifty Akita