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“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall in love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin, find some beautiful art and admire it, and realise that it was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.”

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Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, most popularly known for her deeply human poems and speeches on courage, identity, and resilience. Her words often help us relate personal pain and experiences to universal hope, calling us to see our own dignity and potential in the stories of others.Even though our … Read more

“Thoughts create feelings. Feelings develop our attitude. Attitude comes into action. Repeated actions become a habit. All our habits become our personality. As will be our personality, so will be our destiny”; What she advises on how a single thought creates a ripple effect that influences our destiny

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BK Sister Shivani is a meditation teacher and motivational speaker, renowned for her practical discourses and advice on the mind, emotions, relationships, and self-mastery.Recently, she mentioned in an X post on her social media that we are not victims of circumstance; we are creators of our inner world, and through it, our destiny.Today, our fast-paced, … Read more

Meet Monica White: The woman who thought she’d found love, only to discover her date was a serial killer

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Meeting someone through a dating app can feel pretty ordinary. You chat, exchange a few messages, maybe video-call, and eventually decide to meet.For Monica White, that meeting turned into something she says she’ll never forget.Her story is now being retold in Netflix’s The Dating App Killer: The Monica White Story, which follows her encounter with … Read more

Can aluminium foil keep pigeons away? Here’s what to know about the balcony hack

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Somewhere between waking up to yet another mess on your balcony railing and scrolling past a viral video of someone lining theirs with kitchen foil, a genuinely odd question starts to feel worth asking: could something this simple actually work? As pigeons flock to shaded balconies and windowsills across Indian cities to escape the summer … Read more

A mother taught her 3-year-old to dial the police helpline in a fun game; it turned out to save her life when she actually collapsed

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Photo: South Yorkshire Police/ BBC Most of us think of toddlers as the ones who need looking after and to be taken care of, and not the ones who come to the rescue. But sometimes even small children do something so surprising and quick-witted that it seems extraordinary.One such incident happened when a three-year-old remembered … Read more