Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friend...
You should let Jesus in your heart.’ ‘Jesus is in every heart, brother.’ ‘Are you serious?’ ‘Of course. I love that guy. Who doesn’t?’ ‘A lot of people don’t,’ he laughed. ‘Some people hate Jesus.’ ‘N...
You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.
You can only ever be yourself. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?
When you know you’re going to die, there’s no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The
When the heart has its moment of truth & sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.
Whatever it was, I meant to take her up on it. I meant to go there, and look for her. But
We are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become.
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....
Tomorrow,’ she said, ‘when you go to Prabaker’s village, try to relax completely, and go with the experience. Just … let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.
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...
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...
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 such thing as forever. I don't know why we use the word.
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.
The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love.
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, you heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world...
The same legends also carry warnings that such fated love may, sometimes, be the possession and the obsession of one, and only one, of the two souls twinned by destiny. But wisdom, in one sense, is th...