Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
One of the agonising truths for a battle medic is that you pray as hard and almost as often for men to die as you pray for them to live.
Once we wandered a free Earth, carrying a picture of our God or king to ensure safe passage. Now the world is gated, and we carry pictures of ourselves, and nobody’s safe.
Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And
Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. Nothing exists, as we think i...
Niewiele ludzi umiera w Indyjskim Domu Gościnnym, głównie tylko narkomany, takie chude. Dla was nie problem, wy takie piękne, wielkie, tłuste.
News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.’ We
Millions of dreams were born there, around us, every day. Millions of dreams died there, and were born again. The humid air was thick with dreams, everywhere, in my Mumbai.
Men lie, to themselves more than to others, and to the others more often than they tell the truth.
Manchmal lieben wir nur mit der Hoffnung. Manchmal weinen wir mit allem ausser Tränen. Und am Ende bleiben nur: Liebe und ihre Pflicht, Trauer und ihre Wahrheit. Am Ende haben wir nichts anderes - nic...
Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to...
Love the truth that you find in the hearts of others. Always listen to the voice of love in your own heart
It’s unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it’s always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.
If you're not living for something, you're dying for nothing!
If fate doesn’t make you laugh, Karla said, in one of my first conversations with her, then you just don’t get the joke.
I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the...
I think that suffering is the way we test our love. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our l...
I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.
I think I’d like a short, direct answer to every question,’ I replied, laughing. He raised an eyebrow at the foolishness of my flippant response and then shook his head slowly. ‘Do you know the Englis...
I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare from heart to heart, tho...