"Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off."

-- Kenneth Grahame

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“It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didnâ€™t stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility.”
“That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.”
“Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
“My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.”
“I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.”
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Donâ€™t read a book out of its right time for you.”
“I write only because I cannot stop.”

Source : Heinrich Von Kleist (1982). “An Abyss Deep Enough: The Life of Heinrich Von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes”, Dutton Adult
“I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.”

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