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“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.”
― Kenneth B. Elliott

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“തീ പടര്‍ത്താനുഭയോഗിച്ച കമ്പോ കൊള്ളിയോ കത്തിത്തീര്‍ന്നാലും തീ പിന്നെയും പടര്‍ന്നുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കും. അഗ്നിഭാതയില്‍, ഒരു പക്ഷെ ചിന്തയുടെ അഗ്നിഭാതയില്‍ ആത്മനാശത്തിന്റെ അംശമുണ്ട്. അതിന്നര്‍ത്ഥം നിങ്ങള്‍ മറ്റുള്ളവരില്‍ പടരുന്നു എന്നോ സ്വയം ഇല്ലാതായിത്തീര്‍ന്നിട്ട് മറ്റുള്ളവരില്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്നു എന്നോ ആണ്. അതൊരു സാഫല്യമാണ്”
― M. N. Vijayan | എം.എന്‍ .വിജയന്‍

“സംതൃപ്തമായ യുവത്വം നിഷ്ക്രിയമായ യുവത്വവും നിര്ജീവമായ ജീവിതവുമായിത്തീരും... യുവത്വത്തിന് അതിന്റെ അസ്വസ്ഥത നഷ്ടപ്പെടുമ്പോള് അതൊരു യന്ത്രം പോലെ സമര്ത്ഥവും നിര്ജീവവും വന്ധ്യവും ആയിത്തീരും. വന്ധ്യതയ്ക്ക് ഒന്നിനെയും സൃഷ്ടിക്കുവാന് കഴിയാത്തതുകൊണ്ട് പുതിയ ഒരു ലോകക്രമത്തെ നിര്മ്മിക്കുവാനും അതിന് കഴിയില്ല.”
― M.N. Vijayan

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

“Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well known
and it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’t
separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate
their human and dog natures.”
― Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
― Hippocrates

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

“Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:

where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”
― Pablo Neruda

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“On May 9, 1916, the British and French entered into a clandestine treaty on how they intended to carve up the region. The treaty was the Sykes-Picot, named for the negotiators. Always described as infamous, the treaty ignored both Jewish aspirations and Sharif Husain’s personal ambitions. And so Palestine became the ‘twice promised land.”
― Leon Uris, The Haj