Charu Uppal

“It is not possible for you to consistently feel positive emotion about something and have it turn out badly, just as it is not possible for you to consistently feel bad about something and have it turn out well”
― Esther Hicks, Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“When the Republicans caught us around a dead Viet Cong fighter, we had to act like we didn’t know what was going on. We would tell the soldiers that nobody knew who the dead person was, even though his family might be standing right there, holding back their tears. We would claim the dead man was a vagabond or someone from another village. “Would you soldiers like to haul him away for us?” No, they would not. So we’d bury him ourselves and the relatives would mourn in secret.”
― Le Ly Hayslip, Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

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― D.V. Sridharan, Good News India: Ordinary Indians, Extraordinary Triumphs

“I was a man exasperated by India. It was so different from the West where even pets followed rules. Years at sea and reading almost entirely in English had resulted in making me what I had become.”
― D.V. Sridharan, Good News India: Ordinary Indians, Extraordinary Triumphs