Top 50 Preeti Shenoy Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Physical pain is far easier to bear than mental agony.”

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2. “Sometimes things happen for a reason, though they are not obvious at that moment, and there is nothing you can do to control them.”

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3. “Beauty is not what you see on the outside. Beauty is what you are deep inside, where no one watched.”

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4. “Each of our mistakes makes us stronger. They are our life lessons. They make us grow. And I think that is the most important thing in life. To keep making mistakes and learning from them, so that we never stop growing.”

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5. “Never trust love’ – this is what makes sense. If you trust love, you will be hurt sooner or later.”

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6. “Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is a vision, But today well lived can make every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.’ The.”

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7. “There is something wonderful about old friends. They know everything about you, have been a part of your life for so long, that you can seamlessly pick up right where you left off.”

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8. “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you do not mind, it does not matter.”

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9. “Men are like fine wine. They start out as grapes and it is up to women to stomp the juice out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.”

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10. “I am very certain that I do not want to waste my time with the ‘drains’. There are so many beautiful, positive and uplifting things in life. There is so much beauty, so much joy. Life is so short and so fleeting. It is entirely up to us to enjoy each moment. There will of course be moments when you feel sad, hopeless, and despondent and, as though, all is lost. When that happens, it is time to pick up the phone and call the best radiator you know.”

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11. “You have no right to kill others. Then how can you have a right to kill yourself?”

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12. “Life was indeed unpredictable and it was true that it could take a sudden unexpected turn.”

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13. “Never to belittle love, no matter where it came from and to be a little humbler, nicer and kinder with my words and actions.”

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14. “For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.”

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15. “The world is indeed a better place when there is love, friendship, acceptance and hope. Powered by these you can indeed overcome anything including destiny.”

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16. “Life never ceases to throw us googlies. It is how we handle them that makes all the difference. Sometimes you have to take control of it and, at other times, it is best to let go. And the wisest of persons is the one who knows which option to choose.”

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17. “A marriage is between equals. The couple has to set boundaries and decide where their individual freedom ends and where accountability begins, and to what extent should one be accountable.”

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18. “Sometimes all one needs is a strong anchor, a person you can trust blindly. Someone who will lead you on, be there for you and never let you down.”

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19. “The best way to handle pain and disappointment is to bury oneself in work.”

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20. “It is indeed amazing how words and kindness have the power to heal, perhaps much more than medicines.”

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21. “Once you know what direction to take, finding the path to it becomes easy.”

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22. “In a relationship, we expect others to behave the same way that we behave towards them. That is the biggest mistake we make.”

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23. “The feeling of a full stomach with completely satiated taste buds, a nice atmosphere and good company under a night sky is one of the most pleasant things that one can experience.”

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24. “Our mind is our biggest enemy, Ankita. But it can also be our biggest friend. There’s so much beauty in life. We only have to look.”

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25. “It is ironic how the years change you and yet you remain the same.”

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26. “The secret of staying young forever is to drown yourself in work that recharges you.”

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27. “Sometimes in a marriage, it is easier to just buy peace and pay the price of swallowing your ego and keeping quiet.”

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28. “Age is just a number.’ ‘A man is as old as he looks. A woman is as old as she feels.’ ‘You.”

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29. “Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel. Then they suddenly stop all communication with you and vanish. All you can do is wait. I wish men came with instruction manual.”

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30. “I want to tell her that love can also hurt and wound. It can make you ache. It can make you long for a person long after they are gone. It can leave you with a feeling so incomplete that you wonder if you will ever be whole again. It can shatter you, break you and make you a different person from what you were. But I say nothing. ‘Why are.”

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31. “Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.”

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32. “You never know who is going to get back into my life.”

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33. “Mostly it is those memories – the things that you did not do that kill you later, when it is too late.”

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34. “It is funny what memories can do to you. How they can grip you by the throat, choke you, strangle you. And just when you thought you had it all sorted, too.”

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35. “Sometimes decisions that are taken in the nick of a moment are the ones that have the power to affect a whole train of events that follow.”

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36. “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

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37. “We are what our thoughts have made us. So take care what you think. Thoughts live. They travel far.”

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38. “Blood is thicker than water. And nothing can stop the connection between a child and its parent.”

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39. “How does someone become so important in your life that your entire physical and emotional well-being depends on their actions?”

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40. “I had a lot of time on my hands and so I fell into the world of books. I read and read and read some more. I read every single thing that I could lay my hands on – even if authors were not well known or famous. I began seeing the world through their eyes.”

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41. “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.”

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42. “Nothing like the pure, unpolluted air we get to breathe in these mountains, and nothing like being away from cities.”

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43. “There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not. Why not? Why not?”

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44. “Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over the years. You don’t even notice it creeping up. It happens, trickle by trickle. You do not realise when or how the easy familiarity gets replaced by a ‘taken-for-granted’ attitude over the years. By the time you do, it is often too late. Habits have been formed, patterns have been set. And a comfort-zone has been established. A zone that is hard to get out of.”

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45. “Life is also a great teacher. Life gives you the exams, but doesn’t tell you the syllabus. It is up to us to set our own lessons.”

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46. “The harder one tries to get over that person, the deeper they seem to fall for them.”

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47. “I wrote and wrote and poured out my twenty one year old heart into those pages.”

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48. “That’s the thing about the words we utter. We have to choose them carefully. They have the power to affect others, and maybe affect the course of things in ways we can never imagine. Sometimes we remember something someone said years later. It gets imprinted in our memory and refuses to go away.”

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49. “That’s the thing about love. You cannot force it. You cannot fight it. If it comes, you gratefully accept. If it doesn’t, you can’t do a thing. All you do is go about your daily business, hoping it will come tomorrow, the day after, eventually.”

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50. “Ninety eight percent of the time, my husband is sweet. Really sweet. Not the sticky-sweet like cheap candy-chocolates that adhere stubbornly to every crevice in your mouth, but genuine sweet like a Godiva chocolate whose taste lingers long after you have finished relishing it.”

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