"Be happy without picking flaws."

-- Victor Hugo

“We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “Self-Analysis”, p.154, Routledge
“The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.”
“I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.”
“Never give your heart to a blockhead.”
“In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari bhajana.”
“Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.”
“My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.”
“Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.”

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