"Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people."

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Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010

Jhumpa Lahiri

#Names Quotes #People Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.”
“Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.”
“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.”
“100% renewable energy is 100% possible and can happen sooner than we think.”
“Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.”
“An algorithm is like a recipe.”

Source : "Len Testa and the math behind your theme park vacation". Interview with Sophie Brown, www.wired.com. November 14, 2012.
“Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc
“You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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