"You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks."

-- Gangaji

“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.”
“The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.”

Source : Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.193, Random House
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

Source : "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.
“I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.”
“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.”
“I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England”
“I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.”
“I believe in America. America's made my fortune.”

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