Biswas Quotes

#1. The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

Arun Joshi

#2. On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.

V.S. Naipaul

#3. When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#5. For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

Robin S. Sharma

#7. I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

Robert Biswas-Diener

#8. Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#11. Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times ... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#12. Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.

D. Biswas

#13. Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

Suzanne Collins

#14. Your job is obviously very pressured."
"I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since ...
Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.

Sophie Kinsella

#15. It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

Michelangelo

#16. Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

Jim Rohn

#17. I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

John Catsimatidis

#18. We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them.

Sandranil Biswas

#19. I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

Sarah Zettel

#20. Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!

Deeba Salim Irfan

#21. A man should not be judged by his fame, power, or money, but rather by how much love he gives to others.

Sandranil Biswas

#22. The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life.

Yair Lapid

#23. It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.

Megan Griffiths

#24. Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.

Gino Bartali

#25. Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#26. Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#27. A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.

Gertrude Stein