41 Quotes by P. Sheelwant

… Why do you think monkeys don’t let the peanuts go off their fists … to freedom? … Monkey’s self-image of perching high in the crown, munching on fisted peanuts, has already enchained him before the hunter does. …

… Most of us cling to our ‘peanuts’ long enough to let the ‘monkey-hunter’ catch us. Consequently, we don’t let our full potential to bloom….

… few grasped – with piercing insight – what they had the potential to be the best at, and, just as important, what they hadn’t…

… ‘doing what you are good at will only make you good; focusing on what you can, potentially, do better than best of the rest, is the only path to greatness’…

… I had promised myself to go and ask for his forgiveness one day, but now that he is no more, I have lost that chance of amendment, too.

… Could I have missed them more? What a fool I had been while they walked and talked and lived …

… Had Dad not thrown me out … for pursuing what I liked, and more so, for not pursuing what he liked, I could have probably said … . But as of now, I can’t. I know my conscience wouldn’t ever let me rest in peace, if I did.

… He was shouting all along, ‘so people want to make me regret’, and then came his full-throated war cry as if a triumphant cannibal was dragging his vanquished, and wriggling, enemy to cook for a communal feast…

… Mom’s murmur, ‘Oh Mohan, you fool, couldn’t you help not wrecking the delicate balance I tried to nurture’ rings in my ears ever fresh…