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“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“What else can I say?
You will only hear
what you are ready to hear.
Don’t nod your head,
Don’t try to fool me—
the truth of what you see
is written all over your face!”
― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.”
― Stephen Fry

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“I had spent the day
friendless, lonely and sad,
a stranger to myself.



After drowning the day
on the sea shore,
I walked back
to my empty house
on the deserted street.



The moment
I opened the door,
the book on my table
flipped its pages
and said:

"Friend,
Where were you
for so long?”
― Gulzar

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.”
― R. K. Narayan

“The Little Boy and the Old Man

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I know what you mean," said the little old man.”
― Shel Silverstein

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“in order to write good English one should be familiar with the Bible as well as European fairy tales, nursery rhymes and even nonsense verse like the limericks of Edward Lear. I read them not for fun but as the basics of literature.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“It is the extramarital love affair that destroys a marriage, not extramarital sex with a prostitute.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“Do what your heart tells you. It doesn’t matter if you make a mistake. The only things we regret are the things we did not do.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and the Big Hoom

“Love is a hollow word which seems at home in song lyrics and greeting cards, until you fall in love and discover its disconcerting power.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and the Big Hoom

“If anyone ever does you a favour, you cannot forget it. You must always credit them, especially in public, especially to those they love and those who love them. You must pay your debts, even those that you can never fully repay. Anything less makes you less.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and the Big Hoom

“જે ગામે, જેવી હોય તેવી નિશાળે હું ગામના છોકરાઓ સાથે જતો કે ન જતો. નથી મને સમયસર નિશાળે બેસાડવાની માથાકૂટ કરાઈ, ન તો હું છું અને કેવું ભણું છું તે પૂછાયું. નથી કોઈએ મારું પ્રગતિપત્રક જોવા માંગ્યું. મારા કોઈ એક શિક્ષક નથી. પૃથ્વી, આકાશ, જળ-વાયુ, અંધકાર અને ઉજાસ બધાએ મને કંઈનું કંઈ જ્ઞાન આપ્યું છે. એમાંથી જેટલું સમજણમાં ફેરવાયું હશે તે મને કામ આવ્યું હશે.”
― Dhruv Bhatt, Aajukhele

“નફરત ભર્યા યુદ્ધો પછી ફરી બેઠા થવામાં પ્રજાઓને એ જ અજાણ્યો જાદુ, એ જ અગત્યની વાત અને એ જ મૂંગા સંદેશાઓ કામ આવ્યા છે. એમાં કઈ અને કેવી શક્તિ હશે તે કોઈ નથી જાણતું. પણ જગત આખું જોતું આવ્યું છે કે, ગમે તેટલી બાંધો દિવાલો તૂટીને જ રહે છે.”
― Dhruv Bhatt, Aajukhele

“નિશાળનું ભણતર તો શરૂ થાય ત્યારે, ત્યાં સુધી મારે મારી પંચેન્દ્રિયો મને જે સમજાવે તેને ઉકેલવાની મથામણ કરવાની હતી. તે હું કરતો. પોતાને ન સમજાતા શબ્દો વિશે બાળક પોતાની મેળે અર્થો કરીને ગાડું ગબડાવે તે ઉંમર ધીરે ધીરે દૂર સરતી જતી હતી”
― Dhruv Bhatt, Aajukhele

“જોકે નામ લખાઈ ગયા છતાં, અને નિશાળે જવા છતાં હું ત્યાં જઈને ભણતો જ તેવું નહોતું. મને શિક્ષિત કરવાનું કામ માત્ર અને માત્ર દ્રશ્યોએ, અવાજોએ, સ્પર્શોએ, ઘટનાઓએ, મને મળેલા મનુજો, અન્ય સજીવ-નિર્જીવોએ અને સંજોગોએ જ કર્યું છે. ના કોઈ નિશાળે નહીં, કોઈ ગુરુ કહેવાતા શિક્ષકોએ નહીં.”
― Dhruv Bhatt, Aajukhele

“માણસ સામે દીવાલો અને ફેકલ્ટી વગરનું બહુ મોટું વિશ્વ વિદ્યાલય છે. સવાલ માત્ર તેમાં પ્રવેશ લેવાનો છે.”
― Dhruv Bhatt, Aajukhele

“સંસ્કાર અને સંસ્કારિતાનો ખ્યાલ કંઇક જબરી ગરબડવાળી વસ્તુ છે અને દરેક જણ તેને પોતાની રીતે મૂલવે છે. એટલે એમાં પડવા જેવું નથી.”
― Dhruv Bhatt, Aajukhele