Shayri Quotes

I have been refused entrance on the buses because

I would not pay my fare at the front

and go around to the rear door to enter.

That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point

where the white passengers would start occupying.

Life is not a problem to be solved,

but an experience to be had.

I asked the gym instructor if he could teach me to do the splits.

He said,

‘How flexible are you?’ I said,

‘I can’t make it on Tuesdays.’

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize

the extent of your own ignorance.

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary,

simply by doing them with the right people.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is

the only guardian of true liberty.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank

and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake,

since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Pain and suffering are always

inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

Reality is created by the mind,

we can change our reality by changing our mind.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

No person was ever honored for what he received.

Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated.

It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

However able and faithful he may be in other respects,

people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

It is the duty of society to

provide protection for the weak and helpless.

With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.

I'm happy to be alive,

I'm happy to be who I am.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,

but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if

they were great and noble.

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The best way to keep good acts in memory is

to refresh them with new ones.

A purpose of human life,

no matter who is controlling it,

is to love whoever is around to be loved.