Kindle Notes & Highlights
Sensitivity towards your loved one makes it tough to be sensitive towards someone who is distant.
This is so apt. The world would have been such a better place if we could be sensitive towards all.
We often misinterpret tranquil situation for our inner tranquillity.
Again, the interpretation of things happening around us has a great influence in how we feel within. This is also true vice versa. Atleast it happens with me.
‘The definition of good and bad times varies according to the person and the context.’
In our eagerness to be good, we forget that everyone has the right to choose their happiness and misery
She felt the emotional pain coursing through her body as if she had many hearts throbbing in each of her organs.
Perception of someone who is keen to hold on to love can never match with the one who has given up.
She did not want to dwell on the beauty of the past that did nothing but heighten the pain of the present.
‘Striking the right chord in any relationship follows neither any rule nor is it helped by past experiences
Leave your apprehension aside and go ahead. You’ll never know what could’ve been if you simply don’t make a move.’
It made no sense to ruin their present togetherness by pondering over inevitable personal transformations.
We get used to our miseries in the same way as we get used to our pleasures.
Courage to walk against the tide comes from a passion that eliminates every limitation.
‘Forgiveness is the will of the victim, not the right of the perpetrator.
Mistrust pretends to save us from certain discomforts only by confining us.
‘the privileged are not those who do not face adversities. The privileged are those who put their adversities behind without holding a grudge.’
‘Someday you will know that it takes a lot of love and courage to let others wipe your tears
‘we are not as generous in our understanding of others as much we expect others to understand us. We are so impatient and eager to form an opinion about others that we forget
to love them
Why should I throw away today’s happiness in anticipation of tomorrow’s pain?’
Lovers have a peculiar tendency of dramatizing the simplest thing and they do this in grave earnestness.
A goodbye often reveals what otherwise would have remained uncovered.
There are moments when you feel devoid of love. And there are moments when you are eager to love. Which moments overwhelm you define the course of your relationships
