Chintan Lalwani

INDIAN 🇮🇳 I'm jack's complete lack of surprise ;) 🏀 #MFFL 🏏#TeamIndia 🎾@DjokerNole @rogerfederer

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Kyrie Irving says Kobe Bryant told him to read ‘The Alchemist’ in order to stop being obsessed with proving people wrong

“He knew how curious I was, not just about being great at the game, but about life. That’s why he gave me the book ‘The Alchemist’ and told me to read that… Kobe’s smart… He studied all the greats in every other industry so he could figure out how to be great too…”

“It was about really taking the time to get to know who the people are around you. Get to know them as much as you invest in watching the game. I’m an avid student of all the greats in basketball.”

“He really put all those other authors in my life so I could help balance what I was into. Since I was 12 or 13 years old, I’ve studied basketball more than 10,000 hours, as they say before you become an expert or master your craft.”

“I’ve played more than 10,000 hours. I’ve done all that. When I got to Boston, I was ready for a new challenge, but I didn’t know how it was going to come from within. That’s why he gave me The Alchemist.”

“The journey is the reward. Embrace the journey. Don’t think about the end goal so much where you’re fixated on trying to prove people wrong or be at the mountaintop without going through the details that it takes to really appreciate it. That was him.”

“His mentorship was like, ‘Yo, stay curious, bro. I know you’re different. You’re not like everybody else out here.’”

[senpai @Senpaisaysbye]

I genuinely don’t understand how we are supposed to casually process that a glacier literally collapsed in Nepal, erasing 19 bridges and killing over 600 people, because the planet is too hot. And instead of stopping it, billionaires are building more data centres. It is completely psychotic.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

Call it a millennial crisis if you want...
But in my 30's, I realized I don't actually want the life I worked so hard for. I don't care about titles. I don't care about climbing anyone else's ladder. I care about time. I care about slow mornings. I care about peace.I care about bare feet at the beach with nowhere to be.
I still want to make money... just not at the cost of my life.

[Chintan Lalwani @chinty88]

Never in my life had I finished 2 novels in a single day, this wasn’t even what I was thinking let alone planning - somehow I find myself giddy af ahhaha

[Dhillon @sehajdhillon_]

Moral of the story : Efforts in the wrong place are simply wasted.

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well; and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

— George Orwell

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

2,500-year-old advice from Buddha.

'But if you don't find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-meaning person, going the same way as yourself, then walk alone. Like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom or like a great elephant in the deep forest. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.'

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

"Marriage is a union of two people to overcome the hardships of life which would not have appeared if they had not been united."

— Leo Tolstoy

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

“𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧; 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩.”

— 𝘍𝘺𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

If you think less of yourself after doing it, don't do it again.

— Miyamoto Misashi

[Maliha @CaffeinatedLiha]

It takes an author years to write a masterpiece book and it takes me exactly one sleepless night to inhale it like a feral raccoon on espresso.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

"The hardest truth is that your greatest work may be seen by no one, and yet you must do it anyway for the one who watches is you."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[NBA @NBA]

All-time heart. All-time intensity. All-time passion.

Russell Westbrook, one of one 💯

[Sean M. Greene ll @sean_incredible]

- Now everybody loved Westbrook. Lmfao

I watched people and sports pages on social media violate Westbrook consistently for LeBron and even KD narratives.

Niggas really show fake love when you’re gone in any form—death, breakup or retirement.

[Chintan Lalwani @chinty88]

Hated him as a #Mavs fan, respected him as a fierce competitor. Always played with his heart on the sleeve and made watching basketball so much fun. What a legend! 🫡

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

Sometimes you don’t even know when you’ve already watched the end.

You had to be there. And now it’s over.

[Ele 🌻 @elenadesaa1999]

Lo más amable que hace la literatura es recordarte que tus pequeños sentimientos peculiares siempre han existido. Alguien, en algún siglo, se sintió igualmente confundido por el amor, aburrido por la sociedad, cansado de actuar y hambriento de significado.

[Chintan Lalwani @chinty88]

88 deaths in this chakravyuh and I still remain a slave to freedom.

[Akira. @vampirexty]

"Nothing kills the human soul like the wrong place and the wrong people."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky."