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“കൊടുങ്കാറ്റുകളെ ചങ്ങലയ്ക്കിട്ട് നടക്കുന്ന ദേവാ, ഇവിടെ ഞാനുണ്ട്.അവിടുത്തെ മകനായ അഞ്ചുവയസ്സുള്ള ഒരുണ്ണി.(ഭീമൻ)”
― M.T. Vasudevan Nair, രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham

“കുരുവംശത്തിലെ പുരുഷന്മാർ മുഴുവൻ സ്ത്രീകളുടെ കണീര് കണ്ട് രസിച്ചവരാണ്.എനിക്കറിയാം ....(ഗാന്ധാരി )”
― M.T. Vasudevan Nair, രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham

“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What’s important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we’re doing is playing at education.”
― Keigo Higashino, Malice

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

“Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
― Olivia Wilde

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions--sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments--both physical and emotional--unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss--another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.”
― Ken Blanchard, The One Minute Manager

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
― J.M. Barrie