Brevity

Philip, Alexander's father, sent Sparta a message:
"If I enter Laconia, you shall be exterminated."
He received just one word in answer:
"If".

Mayank's Favourites

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but nobody is willing to put in the work necessary to achieve these goals.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

Less is More. - Mies van der Rohe

I’d Rather Be Birding - June Osborne

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs

The only person you are truly competing against, is yourself. - Captain Jean-Luc Pickard (Star Trek TNG)

There are many parts of my youth that I am not proud of. There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove, but when I pulled on one of those threads, it had unravelled the tapestry of my life. - Captain Jean-Luc Pickard (Star Trek TNG)

To lose something, one must first possess it. - Lt. Worf (Star Trek TNG)

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. - Martina Navratilova

I don't know anything about anything. - Idunnowho

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. - Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes, when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama, expecting victory after victory, and you understand deeply that this is not paradise... the privileged ones that we are, somehow embrace the notion that this veil of tears is perfectable, that you're going to get it all straight. I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. I put this into a song called 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' wherein you abandon your masterpiece and you sink into the real masterpiece. - Leonard Cohen

If it be your will, that I speak no more, and my voice be still, as it was before. I will speak no more, I shall abide until, I am spoken for, if it be your will. - Leonard Cohen

I am not a very nostalgic person. I neither summon up regrets, nor have occasions for self congratulations. It just isn't a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. - Leonard Cohen

If you build it, they will come. - Field of Dreams

Whatever happened, happened for the good, whatever is happening, is happening for the good, whatever will happen, will happen for the good. - The Gita

Only when the last tree has been cut down,
Only when the last river has been poisoned,
Only when the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you discover money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy

Don't just do something, sit there. - Anonymous