"I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place."

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Bharati Mukherjee

#Commitment Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who donâ€™t want it badly enough. Theyâ€™re there to stop the other people.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.
“I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.”
“In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.”
“I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].”
“Thirty, I really like you but I still have to see other people.”
“I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.”

Source : Song: I Believe In You
“Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.”
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

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