"Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal"

-- John Berger

#Struggle Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“Personality is lower than partiality.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.”

Source : Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.100, Hachette UK
“What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?”
“Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.”
“Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.”
“Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.”
“.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.249, Random House
“Hope is a demon worse than your Pain.”

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