"And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?"

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Missing Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Subway Quotes

“Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.”

Source : Karen Armstrong (2011). “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, p.56, Random House
“We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'”

Source : "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.
“We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.”

Source : Errol Walton Barrow (1987). “Speeches by Errol Barrow”, Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited
“We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.”
“The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.”
“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”
“I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.”
“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”

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