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Ain't Enough to Look Human
Abhijit Naskar
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A great many people confuse attention with admiration, they think a stunt is an achievement and misbehavior a declaration of independence.”
“You can sit in a dark room and think of light all you want, but that won't change the reality of the darkness around, but step up to light a candle and suddenly the dark reality turns into one filled with light.”
“The less your needs, the stronger your integrity.”
“Stagnant water never achieves anything, it neither quenches someone's thirst nor does it help grow a plant, it only breeds disease.”
“Rigidity is bondage that keeps you from realizing your true capacity.”
“Power doesn't mean to control people, real power is to bring happiness in their lives.”
“It's not enough to shout about equality, we must feel it, mean it and act on it.”
“Instincts are older, but thoughts are recent, that's why instincts are more powerful than thoughts - that's why it takes great will power to express a thought through action, while instincts come so easily. However, if we continue practicing our thoughts long enough, eventually the instincts that hold power over us will turn powerless. And this my friend, ought to be the next step of our evolution, and that's why it's no longer merely a matter of natural selection, it's what I hereby dub "sapient selection", that is the process of determining the path of our evolution ourselves.”
“If you do a few good deeds and then say, that's it, I've completed my daily quota of good deeds, then that's not goodness, but a mockery of goodness. When a river flows does it ever count the villages it passes by and then say that's it, I have completed my daily quota of providing people water - it doesn't, it simply keeps flowing, without keeping count of how many people are blessed by its water. Be like the river my friend and do good without keeping count.”
“If a billionaire really starts doing actual humanitarian work in their fullest capacity, they would stop being billionaires.”
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