Shahriar Alam > Shahriar's Quotes

“Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality”
― Bakunin

“অনেকদিন দেখা হবেনা,
তারপর একদিন হঠাৎ দেখা হবে,
দু'জনেই দু'জনকে বলবো.. অনেকদিন দেখা হয়নি!
এভাবেই কেটে যাবে দিনের পর দিন আর বছরের পর বছর,
তারপর একদিন হয়ত জানা যাবে কিংবা জানা যাবে না যে..
তোমার সাথে আমার অথবা আমার সাথে তোমার,
আর কখনোই দেখা হবেনা !!”
― Tarapada Roy

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
― James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Lost is a lovely place to find yourself.”
― Michael Faudet, Dirty Pretty Things

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
― Khalil Gibran

“If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you're still in love with that person, get married.”
― Bill Murray

“Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”
― John Hodge, Trainspotting: A Screenplay

“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty great." But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say "Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream ... where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.”
― Alan Watts

“But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.”
― balzac, Le Père Goriot

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Our lives are like the wind... or like sounds.

We come into being, resonate with each other...

Then fade away”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again”
― F. S. Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“তোমার মাপে হয় নি সবাই
তুমিও হও নি সবার মাপে ,
তুমি মর কারো ঠেলায়
কেউ বা মরে তোমার চাপে—
তবু ভেবে দেখতে গেলে
এমনি কিসের টানাটানি ?
তেমন করে হাত বাড়ালে
সুখ পাওয়া যায় অনেকখানি ।
আকাশ তবু সুনীল থাকে ,
মধুর ঠেকে ভোরের আলো ,
মরণ এলে হঠাৎ দেখি
মরার চেয়ে বাঁচাই ভালো ।
যাহার লাগি চক্ষু বুজে
বহিয়ে দিলাম অশ্রুসাগর
তাহারে বাদ দিয়েও দেখি
বিশ্বভুবন মস্ত ডাগর ।
মনেরে তাই কহ যে ,
ভালো মন্দ যাহাই আসুক
সত্যেরে লও সহজে ।”
― Rabindranath Tagore, রবীন্দ্র-রচনাবলী [এক - অষ্টাদশ খণ্ড]

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
― Kurt Vonnegut