Chanakya on crazy
Chanakya126 quotes“An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.”
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Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
ChanakyaChanakya Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
ChanakyaChanakya The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
ChanakyaChanakya She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
ChanakyaChanakya The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
ChanakyaChanakya Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
ChanakyaChanakya Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
ChanakyaChanakya He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
ChanakyaChanakya The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
ChanakyaChanakya What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?
ChanakyaChanakya What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
ChanakyaChanakya Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)
ChanakyaChanakya The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
ChanakyaChanakya Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
ChanakyaChanakya Enemies strike at weak points.
ChanakyaChanakya He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
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Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett Giving up your dreams is easy, but ask yourself is it really easy to live without dreams?
Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown
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Kendall JennerKendall Jenner If anybody has a bad day, they’ll just come to my room because they know I’ll bring out the positive in everything, or I’ll make them laugh, or I’ll be just crazy.
Simone BilesSimone Biles I used to have the craziest fear of losing teeth. I would have nightmares about that all the time. But it’s the craziest thing, because I feel like that’s one of the easiest things to fix. You just get veneers or something.
Kendall JennerKendall Jenner What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.
Amanda GormanAmanda Gorman It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.
Kendall JennerKendall Jenner I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.
Claudette ColvinClaudette Colvin I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
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