Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-Jean Paul Sartre
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, its seems, begins where yours left off.
-Alexandre Dumas
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
In any country of the world, the amount of serenity that is endowed by the artists;
an equal amount of peace is robbed by the politicians and religious heads of that
country.
-Deep Trivedi