Page 177 Quotes

“Ish #177 "You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.”

“Most of the time, our enquiries are triggered by desires to corroborate what we think it is, rather than the genuine desire to know." - Anishka (Pg 177)”

“106When I don’t have anything to read, I feel like a tortoise without a shell or a boat without an anchor. There is nothing to hide under. Nowhere to stop and rest. When I don’t have a book, there is nowhere good or interesting to be, there is nobody to care about, nothing to hope for, and nothing to puzzle over. When I do have something to read, it keeps me breathing. It’s the reward for all the other things. It’s the thing to look forward to, the reason for doing my day.” p. 177, Dime”

“(Everyone, I guess, sees their position as the neutral one and everyone else's position as biassed. I wonder why 177 minutes of the Today programme is completely secular; you feel horribly excluded by 3 minutes of Thought for Today. I see a sinister anti-religious bias when David Attenborough goes through a whole series without ever once aying "On the other hand maybe God made it all"; you feel that 30 minutes of hymn singing on Sunday evening amounts to theocratic oppression.)”

“Own your growth and your schedule!”

“Someone Else's words can detour your potential!”

“Your schedule predicts your miracle or not!”

“Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future!”

“You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.”

“Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.”