Sharmilee Patel

“Emotions tend to get in the way of clear thinking. Whether it’s impatience, frustration, fury, self-loathing or even premature elation – allowing these to consume the mind results in a loss of focus and distraction from learning, and keeps you from taking the right decisions and achieving your goal. Training your mind to take a step back at the crucial moment and developing cues to organize your thoughts is more advantageous than making a move while your mind is in turmoil.”
― Viswanathan Anand, Mind Master: Winning Lessons From A Champion's Life

“You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they’re inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Everyone was well versed in how they were expected to behave towards the regime. They had mouths only to keep shut, hands only to make obeisance, knees only to bend and kneel, backs only to bend, and bodies only to shrink before the authorities.”
― Perumal Murugan, Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

“Speak softly, sir. The regime has ears on all sides.'
'There's an old saying that the regime is deaf.'
'It's deaf only when we speak about our problems. When we talk about the regime, its ears are quite sharp.”
― Perumal Murugan, Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat