Setu 🌉 सेतु: Aphorism

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Quotable Quotes by Anurag Sharma

At times, an idea strikes me suddenly and refuses to leave. The only way I can quiet such persistent thoughts is by tucking them away in my notebook, hoping they’ll fade once written down. Often, I’m disheartened by the harm caused by a familiar saying or widely held belief, and I feel compelled to challenge it. That’s how most of my one-liner quotes come to life. I’m sharing a few of them here FYRP. - Anurag Sharma

Anurag's Quotes 2 (Setu, February 2018)

Anurag's Quotes 1 (Setu, January 2018)

Truth doesn't age.
Love shares, hate hides.
Love means happiness.
Love unites, hate divides.
Selfish fish is fished first.
Secrecy is the enemy of love.
Man is a social media animal.
Love is selfless, hate is egotist.
Hard work carries heavy weight.
Love accommodates, hate secedes.
Don't sell your garage to buy a car.
Only Comrades deserve 100% Marx.
It’s not love if you’re not receiving it.
Love is spontaneous, hate is scheming.
Efficiency is passion, life is compassion.
It's better to judge than defending the evil.
There is science behind every piece of art.
Being at ease is another name for expertise.
Success is a bad leader, but a good follower.
Loyalty isn't love, it's generally the opposite.
A man can't experience the pain of childbirth.
Firewood of today is the diamond of the future.
Daydream: Sweet memory of a future endeavor.
Ignorance is magically exciting and entertaining.
I suffer from bad memory; I can't forget anything.
Those who look down upon others never grew up.
Relationships are neither good nor bad, people are.
Take a chance, no life is too short to cross a galaxy.
It's better to be unsure than having false confidence.
Happiness is meeting an old friend for the first time.
Life gets less annoying when you learn to live with it.
When you joke, you joke, but when I joke, you choke.
Freedom can't be imposed, what is imposed is slavery.
Happiness is when you see children jumping with joy.
Future was always there, even when there was no past.
Happiness is not trusting a shallow quote about happiness.
The elixir called friendship can breathe life into deadbodies.
You are only as much credible as your Facebook friend list.
Humans correct their mistakes; poor robots have no choice.
I sing from heart because my throat isn't melodious enough.
Life cracks many more jokes than my capability of laughing.

Being good (at heart) makes you good (at everything you do).
Search for startle effect in predictable stories is waste of time.
Love connects, lack of love disconnects, deception reconnects.
Bad relationship is to personality what a loan shark is to finances.
Clear communication without frustration isn't so easy as it sounds.
What is accomplished cannot save from the wrath of what is pending.
Beware of your strengths, because those are your biggest weaknesses.
Nature kills artificial quickly. Nature also kills natural, sooner or later.
Stress tells less about lives, more about (open) files (aka uncertainties).
Think twice before turning into a billboard for your favorite politicians.
Timid minds need a book to follow same way as a train needs the railroad.
Even the most precious pearls don't get recognition while lying in the ocean.
Love can turn evil into good temporarily, understanding makes it permanent.
Good guys may doubt their goodness often, bad guys never make such mistake.
Everyone can complain, anyone can share misery, friends share (and multiply) joy.
Past fascinates because of memories, future fascinates because of infinite possibilities.
Best people are invisible until needed. Their absence is noticed more than their presence.
Adopting a vegetarian diet would do more for the environment than burning less oil and gas.
Good guys fix the problem; Average guys assign the blame; The worst blame imaginary 'other'.
Not that bad things don't happen to good people. But more often than not, good people happen to bad things.
Embarrassment is the bad keyboard which types mother when you actually meant to write significant other.
Irony is when you intend to watch a cultural program and end up watching cultured people (standing between you and the program) instead.

Setu, November 2024

Aphorisms: Ethan Goffman

Ethan Goffman

If you live long enough, you’ll eventually make every stupid mistake possible. You’ll learn from the mistakes, but in time you’ll grow complacent and forget what you’ve learned.

Negative 272 degrees Fahrenheit is the coldest it is physically possible to be. On a negative 271 degree day, the optimist says “It could be worse”!

It is better to say something a little stupid some of the time than to remain silent.

An unfortunate side effect of getting a job that one has greatly desired is that you are now expected to work hard.

We need one eye on the future, one eye on the past, and one eye on the present. Unfortunately, most of us only have two eyes and so we wander through life in a state of confusion.

Every sentence I say is poetry. It’s just that most of it is really, really bad poetry.

Setu, May 2021

Anurag's One-Liner Quotes (Continued from January 2018 issue)

Anurag Sharma

Luck is easy to master.
All that smells is not mold.
Those who breach, often preach.
Oversimplification is a complex trap.
At times, it feels normal to be normal.
At times, truth sounds like exaggeration.
Ignorance is bliss, but arrogance is amiss.
It's illogical to seek logic behind everything.
Past has memories, while future has possibilities.
There is a great makeup artist behind every celebrity.
Quality is a long drive, way beyond your comfort zone.
By the time one is fully awake, it's almost time to sleep.
The best time to quit an unsuitable job is during the interview.
It's time to move on when your boss starts competing with you.
An actor with good eyesight can play the role of a blind character.
You don't really know a person unless he/she is your immediate boss.
Columbus knew his destination, he had no idea where his destiny was.
You aren't forgetful if, in your dream, you forget that you are forgetful.
Love doesn't bring anyone back, it stops people from leaving someone.
The student matters, education matters too, but the school matters most.
Midlife crisis is when parents are hard of hearing and kids hardly listen.
Turning 40 is the toughest part of life for a person with normal eyesight.
Knowledge is not the path, it is the light that helps you choose right path.
Bad history cannot be erased but an apology can help healing old wounds.
Patience pays sometimes, all other times, the patient pays (through the nose).
Most people love truth in it's most brutal form, when they tell it about others.
One person's desperate call for help is somebody else' opportunity for gossip.
Helplessness is strength for some, while skill becomes a weakness for the rest.
The best birthday is 50th, you are tougher, wiser and experienced by this time.
A person without a profile is fine but a profile without a person makes me sad.
The biggest surprise of life is the realization that nothing surprises you anymore.
A 30-minute interview is like capturing 360° personality in a passport size photo.
Your perception is limited to your brain, while reality is already there, everywhere.
A fish complains about 'big fish eating little fish', only after digesting all smaller fish.
The 'bad' excels in teamwork and collaboration, the 'good' may never master this art.
It's a good idea to join a self defense course before going to teach literature to a ruffian.
Even animals care for their biological family, humans are capable of respecting their in-laws.
In an ideal world every human will have a home and every dog will have freedom to reject humans.
As long as you continue using paper in your printer, somebody will make sure that trees are planted.
People who called TV an 'Idiot Box' were lucky not to have experienced 'social media'.
I have spoken to dead phone lines throughout my life. If my talk makes sense, it makes sense even without a listener.
Emotions are infectious. Beware of unhappy people who keep stealing the happiness from everyone around them.
Give a man a veggie burger and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and he would destroy the ecosystem.

Setu, February 2018

Quotable One-Liners by Anurag Sharma

Anurag Sharma

Don't act, just act!
Fix problem, not responsibility
Ignorance is extremely thrilling
Food doesn't kill, company does
Past isn't here, future is still there
A perfect rumor has an expiry date
The best can always get a little better
Art can't stand on its own, furniture does
Today's childishness is tomorrow's youth
Where there is a will, there is an attorney
Today's greed destroys tomorrow's goods
A company is known by the men it keeps
Generosity brightens the darkest situations
Love the bridge, but acknowledge the moat
Lasting relationships are like one-way roads
The disease gets deceased by killing the patient
Visibility enables trust, familiarity brings comfort
I hate being pregnant, I love being a parent though
One who supports everyone, actually supports none
Irony is when your laptop is lighter than your phone
Patience without power is like a candle without wick
What finish line? Nice guys never cared about rat race
Every outsider is a potential insider from the other side
Being thankful is a world apart from just saying thanks
You build your character, while others build your image
You are not frugal until you use coupons at a dollar store
Friendship requires more than one, breakup needs just one
Your Facebook friend list is an indicator of your reliability
Avoiding minor conflicts will eventually drag you into major wars
Power exposes the corrupt. Absolute power exposes them absolutely
Every resistance has a price tag and you can buy as much as you can afford
Half the mess is caused by human errors, the rest is due to the correction efforts
The job of turning dreams into reality can be outsourced, not the act of dreaming
'God bless you' doesn't necessarily indicate one's faith. It indicates good intentions
Power is always a weakness, though a shortcoming can turn into strength occasionally
A rikishi* resists the power of the opponent while a judoka** manipulates it - Agility wins
If you have so many friends that you can't count them, you probably can't count on them either
Characters make good stories, authors make them better, but the best ones are decided by the readers
The intellect of the authoritarians is recognized by force, the authority of the intellectuals is a paradox.

*rikishi = a wrestler especially a Sumo who uses brute force to defeat the opponents
**judoka = one who practices Judo

Setu, January 2018

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