. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain … - Rohinton Mistry

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Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

Rohinton Mistry

. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

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. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

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What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

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World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

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