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Determination makes one impervious to pain.
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
Blood is thicker than water, you hear. Ha! Let me tell you, some blood flows thinner. And some water is as thick as sludge.
People who are quick to pay compliments, baby-baby, are also quick to withdraw them.
Then he said what I knew—what I had always known—he would say. It is what the dead always say, and it is the only thing they say.
“Remember me.”
p. 149
Sometimes in life, we have to take a stand. It does not help to sit on the fence, even if we have to hurt the people we love-love. That is what I want you to remember. If I have taught you anything, I want it to be that.
You children, you forget that no matter how high the okra tree grows, it's never mightier than the hand that planted it.
It is not the thing that we fear the most that crushes us but that which we have failed to fear.
A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life.
“Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.”
p. 281
A parent never apologises, even if he regrets his actions. It is the child who should apologise.
If you're only pointing to your own stuff online, you're doing it wrong. [...] If you want to get, you have to give. If you want to be noticed, you have to notice. Shut up and listen once in a while.







