“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn t: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.”
“It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.”
“The moment we understand life, we will begin to live.”
“Is there any adventure like living life?”
“Life is always just to learn.”
“I d forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
“The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.”
“Don t think you re living when you just exist!”
“We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.”
“I’d seen a thousand lifetimes come and go, but had never truly lived.”
“We should associate only with positive, focused people who we can learn from and who will not drain our valuable energy with complaining and uninspiring attitudes. When we develop and maintain relationships with those who are committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, we will have plenty of company on our path to the top of whatever mountain we seek to climb.”
“We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.”
“Bandit or demon, human or beast, none of it made any difference. The bandits had made this a situation of predators and prey. Only living mattered. Everything else was nothing more than an afterthought.”
“a little modesty averts disgrace”
“It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi s practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.”
“Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam. Life is spontaneous. Live and learn.”
“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.”