Ruchi Pratap > Ruchi's Quotes

“[on the secret to a happy, content life]

Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“That rebellion of mine was an important turning point in my life.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Flight Of The Eagle

“I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.”
― Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
― Emily Dickinson

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

“A wounded dear leaps the highest”
― Emily Dickinson

“My friends are my estate.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I can wade Grief—
Whole Pools of it—
I'm used to that—
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet—
And I tip—drunken—
Let no Pebble—smile—
'Twas the New Liquor—
That was all!”
― Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The Soul selects her own Society.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Love is Immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. ”
― Emily Dickinson

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I love the cause that slew me”
― Emily Dickinson

“Who never lost, are unprepared”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I dwell in possibility…”
― Emily Dickinson

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
― Emily Dickinson

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat. ”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”
― Emily Dickinson