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...
The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.
Every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
Има ирония в храбростта и причините да я ценим толкова. Тя е в това, че ни е по-лесно да проявим храброст заради някой друг, отколкото само заради себе си.
Like many toilets in Goa, it was nothing more than a smooth, steep slope behind the squatting keyhole. Waste matter rolled down the slope to a narrow lane. Wild, hairy, black Goan pigs roamed the lane...
A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - t...
The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.
The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
It was the desolate terror of a man who knows that fate has abandoned him, and death’s already inside, stretching and swelling and filling up the life-space that used to be his. It
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.
Но не по-доброто оръжие, нито пък свръхестествената му ловкост ужасяваше и отблъскваше кучетата. Онова, което ги накара да побягнат панически и да зарежат двете мъртви псета с пукнати черепи, беше, че...
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Нищо не съществува така, както го виждаме. Нищо от онова, което виждаме, не е наистина такова, каквото си мислим, че го виждаме. Очите ни са лъжци. Всичко, което изглежда истинско, е просто част от ил...
No smile would work, no goodbye would pray, no kindness would save, if the truth inside us wasn’t beautiful. And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we’re connected, at our best, by purities...
When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn’t be of our making, but that wouldn’t occur without our action. Some of the w...
I looked at her for a while, reading the runes in her sky-blue eyes. Then I stood from the wall, held her in my arms, and kissed her. It was a long kiss. We lived out a life together in that kiss: we...
None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn’t enough.
You can only ever be yourself. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
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