Ruskin Bond famous quotes

03-25-2025

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Beautiful #War #Butterfly
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Book #Wish #Saving
To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
-- Ruskin Bond

#Men #Laughing #Able
How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in timeâ€¦We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Distance #Moving #Attachment
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Book #Special People #Joy
Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Dream #Garden #Mind
Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Too Much #Littles #Mysterious
To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Hands #Tree #Return
Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships
-- Ruskin Bond

#Rose #Red #Lovers
The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Heart #People #Mind
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Dream #Moving #Tree
Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Mind #Way #Pursuit
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Mountain #Length
I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Memories #Boys #Journey
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer...
-- Ruskin Bond

#Tree #Know Me
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Taken #Simple #Thinking
It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Luck #Ends #End Of The Road
I don't travel so much now, I get tired
-- Ruskin Bond

#Tired
I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Believe #Journey #Kind
Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Wise #Song #Strong
Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Butterfly #Hands #Way
The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Past
love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day... A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!
-- Ruskin Bond

#Heart #Mean #Angel
Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Heart #Yesterday #Long
I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can
-- Ruskin Bond

#Journey #Break
To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they seemed to die and come again to life in spring, the sudden growth of the plant from the seed - all these appeared to be miracles as indeed they still are, miracles of nature!
-- Ruskin Bond

#Spring #Men #Tree
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.
-- Ruskin Bond

#Character #Unique #Animal

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