Top 120 Pawan Mishra Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.”

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2. “A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles.”

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3. “Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.”

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4. “Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.”

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5. “Think about death being inevitable, and unpredictable, exempt from the law of averages. Everyone has a turn, and no one knows when.”

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6. “It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.”

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7. “Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us – in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

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8. “People say we have thousands of options in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.”

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9. “You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.”

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10. “The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.”

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11. “A life without sweets is not much worth living.”

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12. “One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.”

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13. “Matters of the heart are so incalculable!”

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14. “Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.”

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15. “The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours; it is more about being able to sleep when you are ready to.”

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16. “Hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.”

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17. “I once heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality.”

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18. “A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”

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19. “Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”

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20. “In troubled times one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.”

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21. “Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

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22. “In the end, it’s not the obviousness or the complexity of the matters that’s deluding mankind. It’s man himself.”

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23. “If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, anyone can.”

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24. “Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.”

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25. “O woman, thou art my imperfection!”

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26. “Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.”

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27. “The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.”

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28. “Sometimes fate just plays a strange game of Scrabble with you.”

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29. “A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.”

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30. “High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two – because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.”

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31. “We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked – like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.”

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32. “Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.”

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33. “Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by surprise.”

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34. “Discipline at the office had long been enforced by the use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind.”

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35. “As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.”

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36. “If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.”

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37. “All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses – to smell trouble or just something fishy.”

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38. “Good use of time is the universal ingredient in cooking a palatable dish – doesn’t matter if you are baking, boiling, frying, brewing, or grilling.”

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39. “Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division – a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver.”

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40. “Good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, and so on. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.”

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41. “As long as you know that the permission to ask does not include the right to get an answer.”

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42. “Be a good reader first if you wish to become a good writer.”

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43. “Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?”

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44. “Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs – and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.”

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45. “As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a smaller number of words.”

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46. “If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.”

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47. “Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!”

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48. “Relationships are the flavors of life.”

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49. “Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.”

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50. “Am I here to play ‘pass the parcel’ with my balls?”

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