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“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“I am a face that people forget. But I am also a brain that forgets little.”
― Durjoy Datta, Till The Last Breath

“Caring about what others think is the biggest jail one can put oneself in.”
― Durjoy Datta, If It's Not Forever: It's Not Love

“Doctor(to patient): Give me your parent's number so that we can tell them what a bad boy you have been.

Patient(Confused, unwilling): You don't need to.

Doctor:Hospital Rules!!! And no matter how much i hate dead people, I hate Unpaid bills more”
― Durjoy Datta, Till The Last Breath

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

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

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“What makes you think you can survive as a saint in this world, unless you make it your business to exploit the gullible and greedy?”
― Anand Neelakantan, Ajaya: Roll of the Dice

“As long as your feelings, faith, honesty and understanding are alive, there is no need to measure your love.”
― Raj Singh, Anna Hazare "Adhoori Jeet Ke Nayak"

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
― Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart”
― Gavin De Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

“Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
― Kahlil Gibran