Rishikesh Pande

“What is my object in making a friend? To have someone to be able to die for, someone I may follow into exile, someone for whose life I may put myself up as security and pay the price as well. The thing you describe is not friendship but a business deal, looking to the likely consequences, with advantage as its goal. There can be no doubt that the desire lovers have for each other is not so very different from friendship – you might say it was friendship gone mad. Well, then, does anyone ever fall in love with a view to a profit, or advancement, or celebrity? Actual love in itself, heedless of all other considerations, inflames people’s hearts with a passion for the beautiful object, not without the hope, too, that the affection will be mutual. How then can the nobler stimulus of friendship be associated with any ignoble desire?”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen