The Candid Life of Meena Dave Quotes

“To fear is to torture yourself.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“It’s also OK to rely on people, ask for help. Friendship can only work if it’s reciprocated.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Meena was amazed that these women continued to learn, to improve in ways they believed made them better. It was never too late to fix yourself.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“The earlier immigrants had to assimilate because there weren’t enough of us to build a community.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Bravery isn’t in big battles; it is in small acts. Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“There is beauty in chaos.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Advice to a young person from an old person: Bravery isn’t in big battles; it is in small acts. Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“You can’t be lonely when you’re out in the world surrounded by people living their lives.” A lie she’d been telling herself for a very long time.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“There is no order to life. While time is linear, we do not have to live within its confines. The second one: Expectations of how things must be are an anathema.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Buddhist monk had once told her that all that exists is impermanent.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“all that exists is impermanent.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Every day is a risk,”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“hurt begets hurt,”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“home is where the heart is?”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Intent and motive say more about a person than their action.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“I do not know the meaning of love. Even its definition is abstract. “Strong affection based on kinship.” My parents are my kin. If providing for me is considered strong affection, I suppose I have that. But I do not feel anything for them except that I came from them. If it is sexual desire, I have that for my husband. But have no other use for him. What does it mean to hold someone dear? I’ve concluded that I do not care for it. Let it exist for others. I’m enough without it.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“You can’t be lonely when you’re out in the world surrounded by people living their lives.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Aloneness was a choice, but loneliness felt different. A disconnection from others that felt more like a condition of how she lived her life.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“I think she was lonely. She wanted to be left alone but didn’t like that she’d been left, if that makes sense.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Bravery isn’t in big battles; it is in small acts.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Aloneness was a choice, but loneliness felt different. A”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“There is no order to life. While time is linear, we do not have to live within its confines.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Identity is something most of us examine at some point in our lives. It is universal to feel comfortable or uncomfortable in our bodies, our skins, our commonness, and our otherness.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Bravery isn’t in big battles; it is in small acts. Once you are over the age of 30 you can no longer blame the past or your parents for the way you are. Fix yourself, it’s within your control. There is always money in the banana stand. Sam has told me this is from a television program. What I infer from it is that subtext is often more telling than text.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“She reined in her thoughts. Everything was temporary. She’d learned that from a Buddhist monk in Burma. She’d adopted it as her mantra. When her mind wandered to what had once been, she’d rein it back to the present. For now, she was here, and she had things to do.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“Have you ever been someone’s mistake, Sam? It’s a really shitty thing to hear.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave

“walking and he was walking.” Meena shut her”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave