जितनी ऊंची तुम्हारी परवाज़ है, उतने ऊंचे तो मेरे ख्वाब भी नहीं हैं।
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बच्चों को खिलौने तोड़ने दो
वरना बड़े होकर ये लोगों को तोड़ते हैं
उनका आत्मविश्वास,
उनका हृदय
उनकी हर महीन संवेदना
सब कुछ केवल इसलिए तोड़ा जाता है
क्यूंकि तोड़ा जा सकता है
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वो पल, जो कदम आगे बढ़ाने का था, उस पल में तुम पीछे हट गए थे। और तुम्हारे बारे में, कुछ जानने की ज़रूरत नहीं है।
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जहां हाथ न पकड़ना हो न, वहाँ उंगली मत करो। लोगों के दिल टूट जाते हैं
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मेरी intuition के 2 ही modes हैं - Amazing Accuracy या Absolute Blunder। या तो बोलेंगे - "तुम्हें गुरद्वारे के ठीक सामने पार्किंग मिल जाएगी। जाओ!" और गुरद्वारे के ठीक सामने पार्किंग होगी! या बोलेंगे "अरे सब ठीक ही होगा" और कुछ भी ठीक नहीं जाएगा!
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किसी और को बढ़ावा देने के लिए, अपने आप को घटाना नहीं चाहिए। उसे self-deprecation कहते हैं।
अपने को अच्छा महसूस कराने के लिए, किसी और का दिल नहीं तोड़ना चाहिए। उसे narcissism कहते हैं।
चाँद की रोशनी छुप न जाए, इस के लिए सूरज अपने आप को मद्धम नहीं करता।
Don't whittle yourself away to add to someone else's personality.
Don't break a heart to make yourself feel good.
The sun does not reduce its shine so the moon might be visible. The moon just chooses a different time, and they both rule the sky.
During this time, when I have started to prioritise my mental health above most other things, I have been making some changes:
A. Realising that I have lovely friends, and being very grateful for them, their love, and their support at this time.
B. I also became aware of some friends who, for years, have used the love that I give freely, and responding to that love with selfishness, unresponsiveness, or even meanness. Instinctively, I have started to avoid these friends. When one of them calls to ask how I am doing, I say, I am on a mental health break. But during this break, I have actually been meeting my friends a lot MORE, not less. The fact that these friends are the energy that I have wanted to avoid during healing, made me go back and introspect - when did this person last make me feel like a friend?
For most friends, I am glad to say, the feeling of avoidance is based on their communication patterns, rather than a lack of love at their end. For some, I am just not willing to step into the pattern of pretend-love-that-is-actually-their-self-aggrandisation. So, these friends, I have just instinctively let go of. I don't know if I will miss their presence in the future, but for now, it just feels like a handcuff or a chain taken away, and I feel much the lighter for it.
वो समझता था कि वो सूरज है तो उसके आस पास अंधेरा हो ही नहीं सकता।
उसे याद रखना चाहिए था कि परछाई भी एक चीज़ होती है, और कुछ लोग, परछाई के जैसे होते हैं - ठीक सूरज की नाक के नीचे, उसी की रोशनी इस्तेमाल कर के, अंधेरा फैलाते हैं।
She thought she was the sunshine, so she could light up everything around her.
She should have considered shadows. She should have known that some people are like shadows - they use the light of the sun to create darkness.
*The post is deliberately written as He in Hindi and She in English. Its not a translation error :)
We all know that the Deccan plateau is made of volcanic rocks.
My hobby is to sit at midnight and browse miniature dollhouses.
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Valentine's Day is like the karva chauth of unmarried ppl. Everyone has to rush home early on this day.
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I had to restart investing in stocks. Kyunki gold aukaat se bahut oopar chala gya hai, aur stocks charitra se bhi neeche gir gaye hain.
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Main kal subah BP ki dawai lena bhool gayi. Par BP ne bhi mujhe shaam ko jaa kar yaad dilaya!
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All these incessant spam calls we get are helping one company very much. That company is ....Trucaller.
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करवाचौथ एक ऐसा पर्व है जिसे मनाने वाले, और न मनाने वाले, दोनों खुश होते हैं। मनाने वाले पति प्रेम से, न मनाने वाले पेट पूजा से।
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Complex PTSD is like watching ur heart die or Alzeimer's instead of your head.
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According to my mom, the last time she made a mistake was before the Big Bang.
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Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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People will believe anything if you whisper it.
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Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
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Sometimes its hard to tell whether you are carving a niche for yourself or digging a hole!
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There was a time when the artist had to suffer. Now, its the viewer.
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I'd like to apply for a credit card. I am tired of my cheques bouncing all over the place.
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To err is human. To forgive, infrequent.
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Gather ye rosebuds where ye may, florists are very expensive.
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Anybody who can still do at 60 what s/he was doing at 20, wasn't doing much at 20.
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Nothing can spoil a class reunion like running into the guy who has all his hair, married your girl, and made his money from computers.
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Tolerance is based on patience, respect, and the suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
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The problem with doing nothing is, you never know when you are done.
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No two people are exactly alike, and chances are, both are glad of it.
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life isn't a bed of roses or a bowl of cherries. Its a bunch of raisins - raisin' kids, raisin' hell, and raisin' money.
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Now that I finally have it all together, I've forgotten where i put it!
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Nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it themselves.
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If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
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Ideas are a lot like children - our own are wonderful!
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A well-adjusted person is someone who can make the same mistake twice without being nervous.
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The trouble with work is - its so daily.
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Constructive criticism is when I criticise you. Destructive criticism is when you criticise me.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
I tried to walk without a dream, and I fell down.
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do, because she is enchanged with all the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
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At most jobs you can make a living. Its making a life that matters.
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Life is fragile - handle with care.
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The real productive ups and downs are getting up in the morning and getting down to work.
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The door to the human heart can only be opened from the inside.
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
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The best thing to do behind a person's back is to pat it.
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When you make your mark in the world, watch out for people with erasers.
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Grief may be able to take care of itself, but to get full value out of joy, you must have someone to share it with.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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Happiness is not something you get. It's something you do.
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Happiness vanishes when envy appears.
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The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't be little.
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Average is as close to the bottom as the top.
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The happiest misers are the ones who can save up every friend that they have.
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You will never get ahead of anyone you are trying to get even with.
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Live so friends can defend you but never have to.
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Earth is here so kind,
Tickle her with a hoe
and she responds with a harvest.
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Great souls have wills, feeble ones have wishes.
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Humility is a strange thing - the minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.
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What makes us happy is not our position, but our disposition.
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The reason so few people recognise an opportunity is that it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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The greatest underdeveloped territory in the world lies under your hat.
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Everything comes to those who wait - if they work while they wait.
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If you blame others for your failure, do you credit them for your success?
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There is no better exercise than reaching down and lifting someone up.
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A faultless person is possible only in a faultless world.
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The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
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Everyone smiles in the same language.
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If you sow kindness, you reap a crop of friends.
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Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
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Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously. - Neitzsche
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What interpretation prevails is a function of power, not Truth. - Neitzsche
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वो कदम टूट गए जो तेरी महफ़िल की तरफ
सोते सोते भी मचल जाते थे चलने के लिए
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मुझको थकने नहीं देता ये ज़रूरत का पहाड़
मेरे बच्चे मुझे बूढ़ा नहीं होने देते
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ये एक अदा रुलाएगी हमें तमाम उम्र,
जाते हुए न प्यार से यूं मुस्कुराइए
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poets unknown
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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Diplomacy: Laying another's life for one's country.
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The duties of our leaders great who occupy the thrones
Are to address gatherings and lay foundation stones.
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Minister: A person who causes a mini-stir wherever he goes.
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Flattery is like cologne water - to be smelled, but not swallowed.
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Joint Account: An account in which one person deposits and the other withdraws.
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Money: The mint makes it first, and it is up to us to make it last.
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Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables the kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.
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I don't know who wrote these witty quotes. They are all from my childhood diaries.
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Life begins at 40, but only a fool would wait that long.
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Calories don't count. They multiply.
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Floods are rivers too big for their bridges.
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The good thing about growing old is that you only have to do it once.
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Shock absorbers in buses are called passengers.
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If you think a dog can't count, try putting three biscuits in your pocket and giving your dog only two.
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The modern economy has changed many a nest's egg into chicken feed.
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We are born with mouths open and eyes closed, and we spend our entire lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
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Compromise is the art of dividing the cake so that everyone thinks they got the largest piece.
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Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And then, you will have a chair to sit on.
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The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.
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For every problem, there is a neat, simple solution, and its always wrong.
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When all else fails, read the instructions.
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GOD is real, unless declared as an integer.
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In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
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The solution to a problem changes the problem.
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When the bad has become worse, the cycle will repeat itself.
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Grapevine: The only communication system in no danger of being replaced by electronics.
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Hospital: A place where a patient's friends meet to tell him their symptoms.
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- dont know who has written or said these quotes.
वो जो सारे brilliant jokes मेरे दिमाग में, सुबह सुबह इस दुनिया को देख कर आते हैं,
Non-participation in politics is driven by respect (for the leader) or apathy. Both can end.
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I could not be more invisible if I were a ghost.
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If an effort level of 100 is needed to get something, and you decide to put in 90, thinking baaki "ho jayega", thats not delusion. Thats a decision.
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What Elon Musk has done through Twitter files is far more valuable than any valuation lost in 2022.
Sadly, no mainstream media has carried Twitter files even though the findings are very serious.
I want to meet the genius who named Delhi's climate band "temperate".
The Venn Diagram of Ikigai is Japanese in the same way that French Fries is French.
RTC here: https://ikigaitribe.com/what-is-ikigai/
https://japanintercultural.com/free-resources/articles/what-is-ikigai/
https://www.sloww.co/ikigai/
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यह सृष्टि का नियम है कि माता पिता के शौक, बच्चों के शोक का विषय होते हैं, और बच्चों के शौक, माता पिता को शोक देते हैं।
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I love social media posts that demonstrate GK, IQ, and intent at the same time.
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I want to meet the genius who named Delhi's climate band "temperate".
