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“Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.”
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“Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!”
Source : Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1974). “Samagra Lokmanya Tilak”
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“My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.”
Source : Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.57
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“How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.”
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“... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.”
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“It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.”
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“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
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“If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.”
Source : Stuart Briscoe (2010). “What Works When Life Doesn't”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
