"A personâ€™s first duty, a young personâ€™s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value."

-- G. H. Hardy

#Ambition Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.”
“The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.”
“As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.”
“I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that would've surprised me back in January, when I was looking forward to big new novels from several authors I really love.”
“People fall in love for mysterious reasons.”
“How do you maybe hit someone?â€ Michael drawled. â€œOkay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.”
“I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.”
“According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.”

Source : Virchand Raghavji Gandhi (1993). “Religion and Philosophy of the Jainas”

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