Jasmine Days Quotes

“അവസരങ്ങൾ പറക്കും നക്ഷത്രങ്ങളെപ്പോലെയാണ്. നമ്മുടെ കണ്മുന്നിൽ വച്ച് അത് അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാകും. പിന്നെ അതിനെയോർത്ത് വ്യാകുലപ്പെട്ടിട്ട് ഒരു കാര്യവുമില്ല.”
― Benyamin, മുല്ലപ്പൂ നിറമുള്ള പകലുകൾ | Mullappoo Niramulla Pakalukal

“ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും പ്രതിസന്ധിഘട്ടത്തിൽ ആത്യന്തികമായി സത്യമെന്നും ശരിയെന്നും മനസ്സിന് തോന്നുന്നതുമാത്രം പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക. ആയിരംപേർ നിന്റെ പിന്നാലെ വരും, അവർ ആയിരം അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ പറയും. ആരുടെയും വാക്കുകൾക്കും പ്രലോഭനങ്ങൾക്കും ഒരിക്കലും വഴിപ്പെടാതെയിരിക്കുക.സത്യത്തിൽ ഉറച്ചുനിൽക്കുക. നീ വിജയിക്കുക തന്നെ ചെയ്യും...”
― Benyamin, മുല്ലപ്പൂ നിറമുള്ള പകലുകൾ | Mullappoo Niramulla Pakalukal

“Some silences are more meaningful than thousands of long sentences.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“Now you know the pain of losing someone beloved. So, can you imagine the fate of a woman who lost three of the most loved men in her life? he asked as we were parting.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“It's best to be alone when you are sad. I wanted to be myself and feel my strength slowly seeping back into me.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“I was travelling through a tunnel of light. The more I travelled, the lighter I felt. I was filled with a kind of ecstasy that I had never known before. I was moving closer and closer to the source of this beautiful light. All I wanted was to merge with that light. But suddenly I fell, like a flower falling off its stem, and returned to my body.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“I didn't realize then that women like her walked on roads of embers. Their life was an endless wait for the husband kidnapped by the police, the missing brother, the son who had been imprisoned. Women who could not sleep because of the fire in their chest. Ali's mother was one of those women, battered by fate.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“The best way to express gratitude is to recognize the sorrows of other people.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“In the most trying moments of your life, do only that you know to be absolutely right. Thousands of people will approach you and offer thousands of opinions. Do not be influenced, do not give into temptations. Stand steadfast in truth. You will win.”
― Benyamin, മുല്ലപ്പൂ നിറമുള്ള പകലുകൾ | Mullappoo Niramulla Pakalukal

“All those other gestures of sympathy seemed a little melodramatic to me. My loss was mine and only mine. For the others, it was just a matter of words.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“You know people, they will always find something or the other to talk about. Don't take it seriously. But remember that you are going through some of the most decisive moments of your life. You are bearing a burden that is much heavier than a woman as young as you should be bearing. But if you get through these days, you win. Do what feels infinitely right. There will be thousand naysayers. Don't be tempted. Be steadfast...”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“You know how it is when you arrive in a new place and feel like you don't belong there? That hesitation to recon with a new geography. That knowledge that this place is not mine, these ways of talking are not mine, these silences are not mine, this etiquette is not mine.So many new things to absorb. And the place also takes a little time to accept the new person. Often you have to meet the place on its own terms. Sometimes you have to work hard to earn your little corner in it. Till that place become yours, till you find your own equilibrium, there will be a gap between you and the place.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days

“Honest is my policy. That's in fact my problem.”
― Benyamin, Jasmine Days