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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c736328 | My Sikh-inspired spiritual strength is melting away and my brain is too fried to meditate. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 5753161 | Loving one another is half of wisdom. | Ali | ||
| 56f761e | Although the Major was so sympathetic to India, his piece sounds like a warning. He said that one has to be very determined to withstand--to stand up to--India. And the most vulnerable, he said, are always those who love her best. There are many ways of loving India, many things to love her for...but all, said the Major, are dangerous for the European who allows himself to love too much. India always, he said, finds out the weak spot and pr.. | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ||
| 67dac53 | When Indians sleep, they really do sleep. Neither adults nor children have a regular bed-time -- when they're tired they just drop, fully clothed, on to their beds, or the ground if they have no beds, and don't stir again until the next day begins. All one hears is occasionally someone crying out in their sleep, or a dog -- maybe a jackal -- baying at the moon. I lie awake for hours: with happiness, actually. I have never known such a sense.. | sleep | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
| 57e3b62 | The others, however, told their anecdotes with no moral comment whatsoever, even though they had to recount some hair-raising events. And not only did they keep completely cool, but they even had that little smile of tolerance, of affection, even enjoyment that Olivia was beginning to know well: like good parents, they all loved India whatever mischief she might be up to. | colonialism india paternalism | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
| c14a98e | The girl was particularly indignant --not only about this watchman but about all the other people all over India. She said they were all dirty and dishonest. She had a very pretty, open, English face but when she said that it became mean and clenched, and I realised that the longer she stayed in India the more her face would become like that. | india postcolonialism | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
| 4ab0fc2 | It is strange how, once graves are broken and overgrown in this way, then the people in them are truly dead. The Indian Christian graves at the front of the cemetery, which are still kept up by relatives, seem by contrast strangely alive, contemporary | graves maintenance | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
| df1ff18 | Olivia was by no means a snob but she aesthetic and the details Mrs. Saunders gave about her illness were not; also Mrs. Saunders' accent--how could one help noticing with her droning on and on?--was not that of a too highly educated person... | classism | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
| 2c56df6 | She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path. | family friends india | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | |
| 4b41bf3 | in my small pocket of my own isolated country, I felt like I understood my world and myself, but now, I'm actually embracing not knowing and I'm questioning much of what I thought I did know. I kind of like being confused, wrestling with contradictions, and not having to wrap up issues in a minute before a commercial break. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| ae56770 | Judaism or Islam or Sikhism. I can be a believer in something bigger than what I can touch. I can make a leap of faith to a higher power in a way that's appropriate to my culture but not be imprisoned by it. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| a492e80 | I realize I don't have to be a Christian who follows the church, or a Buddhist nun in robes, or a convert to Judaism | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| af659d9 | I've crashed into another bad wall of karma and in the process lost my lightness of being. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 3342918 | I must find peace in the only place possible in India. Within. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 906c600 | Mehmooda's faith and fatalism makes me realize how much I still cling to the belief that I have power over my destiny. Perhaps it's time to let that go. Back at the boat on the lake of lotuses I shiver with thoughts of surrender, for it seems such surrender requires sacrifices I could never make. I'm not sure I want that depth of faith and I can't imagine being capable of it. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 2cf3fd3 | God is not a judgemental giant sitting up in heaven, it's a force within us all - we are light bulbs in the electrical system of the universe. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| bc02284 | I can look to Hanuman for energy, Varuna (the God of water) if I want rain, Lakshmi (Vishnu's consort, the goddess of wealth) if I need money and Saraswathi (Brahma's consort, the goddess of knowledge) ifI have an exam coming up. Ganesh the elephant god and the child of Shiva and Parvati) can be called on when starting a new journey or venture and Vishnu, Ram or Krishna if I want purity of spirit. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 6a6e29f | I figure that if I can find peace in death, then perhaps I can find peace and a sense of grace in life. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 8d8919e | The Sikhs have shown me how to be strong, the Vipassana course taught me how to calm my mind, India's Muslims have shown me the meaning of surrender and sacrifice, and the Hindus have illustrated an infinite number of ways to the divine. But right now the Buddhist way of living attracts me the most. It complements my society's psychological approach to individual growth and development, my desire to take control and take responsibility for .. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| b892b54 | Do you have deep feelings for nature or do you year detachment? Do you prefer sex or self-control? | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 75396ad | I am worried self analysis will lead to spiritual paralysis | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 35c249b | After nearly two years of traveling India's spiritual supermarket I'm still a self-occupied, selfish, pathetic, pessimistic bitch who's dropped any faith at first sign that things aren't going well. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| 5d53f03 | She said she could no longer live in New York, that she was being tormented day and night by some obsessive stalker. This caught me completely by surprise, as I had taken to hanging around Sarah's apartment, hiding in the bushes day and night, watching her come and go, and I had never seen any signs of a stalker. | Norm Macdonald | ||
| cda341f | Grief is half of old age. | Ali | ||
| 17ea347 | Father thought that the first stage of human happiness was a 'fellowship with essence, | Dan Simmons | ||
| c576db1 | Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy. | Ali | ||
| 1f783f0 | One who comes into power often oppresses. | Ali | ||
| e06a450 | Adversities often bring good qualities to the front. | Ali | ||
| c543804 | If a friend envies you, then he is not a true friend. | Ali | ||
| 408fed6 | Avarice dulls the faculties of judgment and wisdom. | Ali | ||
| 5ad8669 | Oppression and tyranny are the worse companions for the Hereafter. | Ali | ||
| 3f5a29d | The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget. | Ali | ||
| a31d719 | A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility. | Ali | ||
| 0d12bad | I often wonder who will be the last person to see me alive. If I had to bet, I'd bet on the delivery boy from the Chinese take-out. I order in four nights out of seven. Whenever he comes I make a big production of finding my wallet. He stands in the door holding a greasy bag while I wonder if this is the night I'll finish off my spring roll, climb into bed, and have a heart attack. | krauss leo-gursky | Nicole Krauss | |
| 92bb019 | Cand te tii cu cineva de mana, de pilda, e un mod de a-ti aduce aminte cum e cand nu spuneti nimic impreuna. Si noaptea, cand e prea intuneric ca sa mai vedem ceva, simtim nevoia sa gesticulam cu ajutorul trupului celuilalt, pentru a ne face intelesi. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 96c6406 | Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything? | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 6974490 | Bend a people around the shape of what they lost, and let everything mirror its absent form | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d041214 | When I was young, I thought that I would live my life as freely as the writers and artists I took as my heroes. But in the end I wasn't brave enough to resist the current pulling me toward convention. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| f46879b | Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 0ae4d88 | For Chanukah I asked for a sleeping bag. The one of my mother got me had pink hearts on it, was made of flannel, and would keep me alive for about five seconds in subzero temperatures before I died of hypothermia. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 9ce54e5 | When I awoke again it was in a homesickness that felt physical, as its symptoms had been physical for seventeenth-century-century mercenary soldiers who'd fallen ill from being so far from home, the first to be diagnosed with the disease of nostalgia. Though never so acute, the longing for something I felt divided from, which was neither a time nor a place was but something formless and unnamed, had been with me since I was a child. Though .. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 097a29f | When I woke again, it was into a homesickness that felt physical, as its symptoms had been physical for seventeenth-century mercenary soldiers who'd fallen ill from being so far from home, the first to be diagnosed with the disease of nostalgia. Though never so acute, the longing for something formless and unnamed, had been with me since I was a child. Though now I want to say that the division I felt was, in a sense, within me: the divisio.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 7486c66 | Looking at his reflection in the dark window, Litvinoff believed something had been peeled away and a truth revealed to him: He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in any way original. And though he was wrong in every way about this, after that night nothing could dissuade him. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 50b4f88 | I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust. I used to let the door slam in people's faces. I farted where I wanted .. | Nicole Krauss |