"I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home."

-- Yasmina Khadra

#Home Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Different Quotes

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]”
“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

Source : Erin McCarthy (2013). “True”, p.117, Penguin
“The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.”
“Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.”
“Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.”
“If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light.”
“The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.”
“It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.”

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