Notes & Quotes

A collection of book notes and quotes that have inspired, motivated, and given me hope.

A little progress every day adds up to BIG results. - Street poster in Pune, India, 2011

Discipline and consistency are far more important tools than motivation and passion. - Someone wise, Jan., 2021

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse. - Jan., 2020

The ultimate strength, the greatest power in life, is self-control. Acting purposefully, acting with intention, and with focus. - Oct., 2021

Remember, no one ever crosses the same stream twice, because it is never the same stream and you are never the same person. - Lou (The Gita, Memoirs of a Psychiatrist) - July, 2023

The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experiences is itself a positive experience. - Mark Manson, Nov., 2019

Find something that you enjoy the process of doing, not something that only makes you happy when you get a good outcome. - Reflections, Jan., 2020

On feedback: Don't take it personally. Take it seriously. - Gordon Ramsey, July, 2018

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. - Mahatma Gandhi, July, 2023

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. - Paul Coffey, July, 2023

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey, April, 2023

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity. - J. K. Rowling, March, 2023

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. - James Neil Hollingworth, March, 2023

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke, March 2023

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. - Sarah Dessen, Feb., 2023

मन का हो तो अच्छा, ना हो तो ज़्यादा अच्छा|
If things happen according to how you wish that's good, but if they don't, that's even better.
Because if they are not happening according to your wish, then they are happening according to the wish of some divine force. And that divine force will never think ill about you, so you respect that as being better. - Amitabh Bachchan और Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sept., 2023

बड़ा संघर्ष है जीवन में।~ जब तक जीवन है तब तक संघर्ष है।
Life is a struggle. ~ So long as there is life, there is going to be struggle. - Amitabh Bachchan और Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sept., 2023

I have been sowing a lot of seeds in the past 4 or 5 years. You can't always be in the reaping stage or harvesting stage in life. Life has seasons. - Emma Watson, Sept., 2023