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but the outer
environment as well.
139.We go in pursuit for many aims, to learn, to inflate the ego, to
serve a cause, to heighten the reputation, to capture, to treasure, to harm
and to protect.
140.There is cost involved in both victory and defeat.
141.What others think of us may or may not be what they thought of us
previously. What others think of us may or may not be what we think
ourselves to be.
142.From what we know, we can decrease or augment, deplete or
replenish, waste or retain, discourage or nurture , obliterate or create.

143.Whether one?s labours are rewarded with favour or spurned,
whatever the outcome, one ought to be consoled with the comfort that
the execution of our labours were made under the cover of probabilities
and guided by clarity of conscience.
144.Sometimes gestures and silence are the most apt communication.
145.Far better to give a sterling performance without an audience rather
than to an unappreciative one.
146.Where love resides there is a bond. Where there?s a bond it may
not always have love as company.
147.When love is no more, mutual respect and tolerance are left. When
these due to friction are depleted, parting is best.
148.Rage so long as it reigns, obscures profundity of all else but raging
fever.
149.Our scars and hurt have tales to tell. They are part of the cost of
living and experience.
150.Faith is trust.
151.In the imperfect cosmos, enhancement of one feature comes with
depletion or sacrifice of another.
152.When we serve for gain or from generosity, we still have to put up
with some personal discomfort.
153.One stroke of a thread ferrying needle undoes a stitch. One potent
stroke of a drug carrying needle undoes a life.
154.If matters were simpler, there would be more trust, less elaborate
schemes and less reading between the lines.
155.If we view valid individualism and idiosyncrasies as unacceptable,
then being ourselves is tantamount to an illegal act.

156.At times scarcity and limitations bring about excellence.
157.Our passion indicates our commitment .How our passion consumes
and endures testify to the intensity of conviction.
158.To be exceptional may mean being at the extreme ends of
classification.
159.It takes effort to create well, duplicate well and emulate well.
160.As we progress what were once seen as luxuries become
necessities.
161.To be ennobled through age is a reward. To be debased in
character as we age is a shame.
162.No one relishes the ill mannered fledgling or elder.
163.We all play our part towards the well being of civilization.
164.When you fear yourself you will fear your own shadow.
When you fear for yourself, you will also fear your own shadow.
165.There is order in disorder when feuding factions champion similar
causes.
166.There is pain and relief in both holding on and letting go.
167.For most, fantasy?s encroachment into reality is better received
than reality?s rude burst into fantasy.
168.Most would wish to stay with fond fantasies if there are no fond
realities. When and where there are fond realities to live with, there we
shall stay.
169.It is not sufficient to have one?s facts precise but also to be sure of
them and ourselves.

170.In anger it is too easy to draw exaggerated stereotypical
conclusions. It takes sensitivity towards conscience and a vigorous
spirit to resolve objectively.
171.Circumstances and distractions make the weary and wary fair
game.
172.Reality deals with what is. Fantasy deals with what might be even
if it is impossible.
173.There is dignity and greatness in the grand and humble. Our eyes
need to seek the less obvious for our minds to appreciate them.
174.The pace with which we go about our work manifest calm or
alarm.
175.Being immersed in concentration is like tuning out in order to tune
in.
176.We came here unsoiled. Our misdeeds soil us.
177.Our struggles wear us away, our passions invigorate us.
178.Society spares neither those who speak too much or those who
speak little.
179.A wrinkled brow should not be the price of temporary discomfort.
180.When we try overzealously to be proper in appearance and
manners, we at times overdo it to the extent that we end up apologising
and blushing over matters which are normal and natural.
181.Let?s face it, not all are compensated equally in material comforts
for their troubles.
182.The measure of strength is the volume of abuse which it is capable
of withstanding.
183.Some buckle under pressure , some buckle under excessive

sweetness.
184.To see truth , we have to see through deceit.
185.One is charred by one?s torch when one is snuffed by the flame of
one?s passion.
186.There is the disquiet of unease in either knowing or not knowing.
There is the ease of calm knowing and not knowing.
187.Confusion brings forth fear, fear brings forth confusion.
188.In a serious surrounding,