Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it?
Vyras turi susirasti gerą moterį, o kai susiranda - laimėti jos meilę. Paskui jis turi pelnyti jos pagarbą. Tada puoselėti pasitikėjimą. O paskui jis turi taip daryti, kol juodu gyvi. Kol abu miršta....
Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it.
To my eyes, the city was beautiful. It was wild and exciting. Buildings that were British Raj-romantic stood side to side with modern, mirrored business towers. The haphazard slouch of neglected tenem...
Time, too, will die, just as we do, when the universe dies, and is born again. Time’s a living thing, just as we are, with birth, longevity, and extinction. Time has a heartbeat, but it isn’t ours, no...
This is why killing and stealing are wrong—not because a book tells us they are wrong, or a law tells us they are wrong, or a spiritual guide tells us they are wrong, but because if everyone did them...
They’d lied to me and betrayed me, leaving jagged edges where all my trust had been, and I didn’t like or respect or admire them any more, but still I loved them. I had no choice. I understood that, p...
They make a religion of being greedy.
There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
There’s no patience as pure as the patience we spend on loved ones, who make things harder than they need to be.
There’s no heart like the Indian heart.
There's no such thing as forever. I don't know why we use the word.
There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor,
There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.
There are demons in all of us. Some of them do not mean us any harm. They just want to live inside us. Some of them want more. They want to eat the souls that hold them.
Then there were the people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konarak; warrior caste, Brahmin, and untouchable; Hindu, Muslim, Chri...
The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.
The world and I are not on speaking terms, Karla said to me once in those early months. The world keeps trying to win me back, she said, but it doesn’t work. I guess I’m just not the forgiving type.
The word family is derived from the word famulus, meaning a servant, and in its early usage, familia, it literally meant the servants of a household. In its essence, the longing for family, and the ra...
The universe,’ he continued, ‘this universe that we know, began in almost absolute simplicity, and it has been getting more complex for about fifteen billion years. In another billion years it will be...