Saswata Guha

“There's pain in progress, but there's pain in stagnation and decline too. It's hard to do well, but it's equally hard to live a life of failure. Choose your pain and choose your hard.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 11 Rules For Life: Secrets to Level Up

“You can't eliminate stress completely, but you must aim to lessen it. Only keep the stress that arises from things most important to you and let go of everything else.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 11 Rules For Life: Secrets to Level Up

“But as we stood there in the stillness I realized that a burden had lifted from me somehow, and the best word I could find for what I was feeling was lightness. A circle had been closed, and I was doing what I had hoped I could do here - I was making my peace with what had happened, making my peace with my life. I stood where I had almost been killed, wearing, I have to tell you, my new Ralph Lauren suit, and I felt... whole.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

“Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder