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“എല്ലാ മതങ്ങളും തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടുള്ളത് ഏതെങ്കിലുമൊരു ഭൂപ്രദേശത്തിലെ ഒരു ജനതയുടെ താത്കാലികമായ ജീവിത പ്രശ്നങ്ങളോടുള്ള ആത്മീയ പ്രതികരണമായിട്ടാണ് അത് കൊണ്ട് എല്ലാ മതങ്ങള്‍ക്കും ജന്മനാ ഒരു എത്തനിക്ക് സ്വഭാവം ഉണ്ട്”
― Anand

“We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Sometimes weakness is a weapon. If you're smart enough to use it.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“we have been dying
since we got here
and forgot to enjoy the view

- live fully”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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

“When in doubt, go to the library.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress. Mark was right.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit. It? I ask. Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It. But what do it look like? I ask. Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you cam feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
― Alice Walker

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker

“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”
― Alice Walker

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
― Alice Walker

“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.”
― Alice Walker

“Look closely at the present you are constructing:
it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
― Alice Walker