Avin Roon > Avin's Quotes

“দুটো শব্দ আছে, জানো! রমণীয় আর পরম। ওদের কাছে জীবন হল রমণীয়, আমাদের কাছে পরম।”
― Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

“তোমাকে যখন দেখি, তার
চেয়ে বেশি দেখি
যখন দেখি না।
চড়ুই পাখিরা জানে
আমি কার প্রতিক্ষায় বসে আছি-
তুমি ব্যস্ত, তুমি একা, তুমি অন্তরাল ভালোবাসো!
সন্ন্যাসীর মতো হাহাকার করে উঠি-
দেখা দাও, দেখা দাও,
পরমুহূর্তেই ফের চোখ মুছি।
হেসে বলি,
তুমি যেখানেই যাও, আমি সঙ্গে আছি!”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay

“তারপর ওরা হাত ধরে চুপ করে বসে রইলো । আর কোনো কথা নেই, সমস্ত কথার প্রয়োজন ফুরিয়ে গেছে । ওরা বসেই রইলো । ঘাট ক্রমশ নির্জন হয়ে আসছে । বাতাস বইছে বেশ জোরে । বজরাগুলো ও ফিরে যাচ্ছে । সবাই ঘরে ফিরছে । এই দুজনের যেন কোনো ঘরবাড়ি নেই, কথাও ফিরতে হবেনা । এরকম একটি অনন্তকালের দৃশ্য হয়ে ওরা বসেই থাকবে ।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay, প্রথম আলো ১

“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.

First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.

Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”
― David Bornstein, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

“I simply knew that I was peculiar and that I was a puzzle to those around me. I was also learning that this weirdness was a part of me that was not to be extinguished.”
― Nick Offerman

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
― Jim Rohn

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“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

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― Rumi

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
― Rumi

“Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“এই খেদ মোর মনে
ভালবেসে মিটল না আশ- কুলাল না এ জীবনে।
হায়, জীবন এত ছোট কেনে?
এ ভুবনে?”
― Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, কবি

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that? When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”
― Khaled Hosseini

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“How far would I travel
To be where you are?
How far is the journey
From here to a star?”
― Irving Berlin, How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky) Sheet Music

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives, I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves."

Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.

And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks."

Thus I became a madman.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman