“When restless sexual desire arises, we pay attention to it with enough understanding and enough love that it dissipates and does not grow.”
“There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.”
“The little moments which mean nothing to you now, will mean everything later in life. Little things like being able to go to your mom’s birthday party, eating breakfast with your grandma, spending time with your brother, and driving the roads you grew up on; will make all the difference later in life.”
“Family is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
“She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
“Grandparents enjoy most the company of their grandchildren. For with them, they experience the miracle of being 10 again.”
“There is a different kind of way to express your romance when you live in a traditional joint family. That’s the beauty of people, everyone is different.”
“In traditional joint family, celebrate whenever you can because there is no guarantee you ll celebrate on the day you want.”
“hope sees the invisible and achieves the impossible”
“What I mean to tell you is that I think you re very brave for standing up to your family. It takes incredible courage to grow up to be someone different than who our parents want us to be.”
“The way you talk to elders cannot be the only way to judge your moral values.”
“If your work and personal life are 50:50, then it s grossly imbalanced. Because many a time we don t need another rich family member, all we need is someone who is there with us and can enjoy the little things in life.”
“The people who are connected with deep roots never gets permanently destroyed.”
“Lifestyle from family money gives you luxurious stuff, but can never give you respect. You get respect when you earn on your own and still live that same lifestyle.”
“You shouldn’t stay angry at someone with whom you eat lunch every day.”
“The purpose of home is to make ourselves comfortable not to impress others.”
“Arrange marriage is taking prior permission from family to take your wife for dinner outside.”