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This book is insightful as hell!!

And it is not only a question of emerging somehow; but also of emerging unembittered and with unimpaired energy. For all these reasons the way of youth should not be made too hard.

It is not desirable that the social sense should be so strongly developed as to cause such men to fear the social hostility which their opinions may provoke. What is desirable is to find ways of making this hostility as slight and as ineffective as possible

This is the greatest I have ever read!

This will be my bible. I will go nowhere without it in my hands from now on!

‘I must not imagine that my tail is better than that,
for that would be conceited, but oh, how I wish it
were! That odious bird is so convinced of his own
magnificence! Shall I pull out some of his feathers?
And then perhaps I need no longer fear comparison
with him.��

To the adult eye there was nothing to cause delight, but in the boy there sprang up a strange ecstasy; he kneeled in the wet ground and put his face in the grass, and gave utterance to half-articulate cries of delight. The joy that he was experiencing was primitive, simple and massive. The organic need that was being satisfied is so profound that those in whom it is starved are seldom completely sane.

It is very singular how little men seem to realise that they are not caught in the grip of a mechanism from which there is no escape, but that the treadmill is one upon which they remain merely because they have not noticed that it fails to take them up to a higher level.

There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

" but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable? "

inveterate aversion and deeply rooted hatred

I found a lot of rubbish sayings and explanations from people who are religious merchants in those 20 pages! And when Holland used the USA's allegory, I almost felt off laughing!

This book is so good!

This oath became known as the famous Pledge of the Tree in Islamic
annals. Muhammad had excited his followers�� religious fervor in the camp
to such a degree that all of them were in a suicidal mood to rush upon the
enemy at once. Just about this time, Othman returned to the camp avoiding a sheer bloodbath.

“Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry? It is no new thing; it is not the first, nor shall it be the last, if thou live long. At best suffer patiently, if thou canst not suffer joyously.��