“Battles are won and lost before they are fought.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“To remain standing one often has to fall.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“The early bird catches the worm but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“If a man tells a woman she is beautiful, she will overlook most of his OTHER lies.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“The lesson for today, dear Rakshas , is between two evils you should pick the one that you haven't yet tried.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“when a man steals your wife, there's no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“It is impossible to know when a fish swimming in water drinks some of it. Thus it's quite impossible to find out when government servants in charge of undertakings misappropriate money.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“When lions fight over a goat, it's usually the hyena that gets away with the prize.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Everything is going to be right at the end. If it's not right, then it is not the end.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Remember that it’s often easier to get forgiveness rather than permission!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Wise men think all they say, fools say all they think.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“A free society is one where it’s safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“One does not need to pluck fruit from a tree that is about to be chopped down. The fruit will fall by themselves. Focus on the bigger purpose and the rest of your manifesto will follow as a matter of course.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Never interrupt the enemy while he's in the process of making mistake”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“If a snake isn’t poisonous, all the more reason that it should pretend to be so,”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“The lesson for today, dear Rakshas , is between two evils you should pick the one that you haven't yet tried”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“politics is war without bloodshed and war is simply politics with bloodshed.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Remember that it’s often easier to get forgiveness rather than permission!’ said Chanakya, a wide grin on his ugly face.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead,”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“A man who opens his mouth too often may end up meeting a tragic end, either from indigestion or execution!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“a battle is never about who’s right. It’s mostly about who’s left!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“Winning is not only about strengthening yourself; it’s also about weakening the enemy.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“What should a man strive for? Kama—love, dharma—duty, artha—wealth, and moksha—salvation.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“a clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“A collection of myths is called mythology.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from Chanakya's Chant
“It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?”
― Douglas Adams, quote from So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Every single day I'll keep you with me, no matter how far from me you are.”
― S.C. Stephens, quote from Reckless
“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.”
― Armistead Maupin, quote from Tales of the City
“You weren’t meant for the ice, you weren’t made for the pain.
The world that lives inside of me was not the world you were meant to contain.
You were meant for castles and living in the sun. Thecold running through me should have made you run.
Yet you stay. Holding onto me, yet you stay, reachingout a hand that I push away. The cold is not meant for you yet you stay, you stay, you stay. When I know it’s not right for you.
The ice fills my veins and I can’t feel the pain, yet you’re there like the heat that sends me screaming in fear.
I can’t feel the warmth I need to feel the ice. I want to hold it all in and numb it till I can’t feel the knife.
Your heat threatens to melt it all and I know I can’t bear the pain if the ice melts away.
So I push you away and I scream out your name and I know I can’t need you yet you give anyway and I run wishing you would run too.
Yet you stay. Holding onto me yet you stay reaching out a hand that I push away. The cold is not meant for you yet you stay, you stay, you stay. When I know it’s not right for you.
The blackness is my shield. I pull it closer still.
You’re the light that I hide from, the light that I hate.
You’re the light to this darkness and I can’t let you stay.
I need the dark around me like I need the ice in my veins.
The cold is my healer. The cold is my safe place. Youaren’t welcome with your heat you don’t belong beside me.
I hate you yet I love, I don’t want you yet I need you.
The dark will always be my cloak and you are the threat to unveil my pain, so leave. Leave and erase the memories.
I need to face the life that’s meant for me. Don’t stay and ruin all my plans.
You can’t have my soul I’m not a man.
The empty vessel I dwell in is not meant to feel the heat you bring. I push you away and I push you away.
Yet you stay.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Existence
“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Beyond Good and Evil
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