Book Reviews
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“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”
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How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? I’m a woman of quiet resilience someone who’s walked through deep emotional fire and still shows up with grace. You wouldn’t see the battles I’ve fought internally and externally to stay grounded, hopeful, and responsible when everything inside me wanted to fall apart. I
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This morning, I woke up feeling surrounded by uncertainty. I felt unsure about my career, confused about love, distant in my relationships and even big things like global issues and climate change started to worry me. It made me realise something.When your nervous system has spent years being in “fight or flight” mode, it forgets
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“You are not in the world. You are the world.” “The most important thing is not what happens to you, but how you experience it.” “Joy is not a goal; it is your natural state.” “If you want to live a truly fulfilling life, you have to take care of the body, mind, and energy.
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“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” “You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” “What happens when you say ‘enough’ and stop trying to escape from what you most fear?” “The world is not the problem;
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“राज्य करणं म्हणजे फक्त सिंहासनावर बसणं नव्हे; ती एक जबाबदारी आहे जी प्रत्येक क्षणी न्याय, धैर्य आणि त्यागाची मागणी करते.” “Ruling is not merely about sitting on the throne; it’s a responsibility that demands justice, courage, and sacrifice at every moment.” “स्वामी, तुमचं आयुष्य हेच माझं सर्वस्व आहे. तुमच्याशिवाय माझं अस्तित्वच नाही.” “Swami, your life
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“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” “People learn, at least,
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“It was hard not to be seduced by it all. The designer trouser suit elongated my legs” I came across Reputation by Sarah Vaughan at a book fair, and it was the title that instantly caught my attention. “Reputation” is such a powerful word,it holds immense weight in all of our life and defines how
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“When you are cursed with beauty, you learn early on that it has its own consequences.” “I have learned that you can’t rely on anyone but yourself, that you cannot change your fate, only how you deal with it.” “I used to think that nothing in the world could take away my pride, but the
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These are just random thoughts from my 2020 notes, written shortly after the pandemic first made headlines. Today, I was commuting to office ,just following my usual routine avoiding random videos on my phone. But my mind was preoccupied with something else: a grim prediction about the coronavirus, warning that 60% of the world’s population
