"...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance."

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Source : Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

Rohinton Mistry

#Balance Quotes #Despair Quotes #Use Quotes

“When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.”
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.”
“Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.”

Source : Song: Room for Happiness
“You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.”

Source : Source: openvault.wgbh.org
“But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.”
“Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.”
“The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple.”
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”

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