Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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George Bernard Shaw
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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Lewis Carroll
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
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Amit Ray
Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.
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Carroll Bryant
The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.
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Carroll Bryant
More Quotes By Neel Mukherjee
It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.
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Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.
