Purba Chakraborty > Purba's Quotes

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Organize your life around your dreams and watch them come true because somewhere over the rainbow , skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― Purba Chakraborty, Walking in the streets of love and destiny

“I believe sometimes a life-time is not enough to know someone and sometimes a few minutes are enough to know someone for a life-time.”
― Purba Chakraborty, Walking in the streets of love and destiny

“That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.”
― Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy

“Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“I love you without knowing how, or when,or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets