Amardip > Amardip's Quotes

“Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

“Love does not grown on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional)LOVE..”
― Kabir

“...But if a mirror ever makes
you sad

you should know
that it does
not know
you.”
― Kabir

“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they’re all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“sometimes we have to “live the question,” not push for the answer.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“there’s no going back; time and water move on relentlessly.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“A woman with unconventional beauty raises the hope that the viewer might be the only one to see it, that in recognizing and appreciating it, he alone has created her beauty.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“One shouldn’t just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“His art, so he tells himself, is to give voice to the ordinary, in memorable ways.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“I am so behind that yesterday catches up with tomorrow.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“What did it matter? We are dying while we are living. We are old even when we're young. We are clinging to life even as we resign ourselves to leaving it.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“We have no practice, he thinks, of seeing our real selves. Even before a mirror we compose our faces to meet our own expectations.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“it is a reminder that the sweetness of life comes with bitterness.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“You can confide in quiet people. They make way for one’s thoughts.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“What the child clamors for is the story of their own family, of the widower’s house into which her grandmother married, a landlocked dwelling in a land of water, a house full of mysteries. But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“How is a dream that involves two people to be sustained by one?”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“If two people at the very same moment hold visions of each other, perhaps atoms coalesce into invisible forms, like radio waves, and connect them.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“These everyday, unremarkable noises of her youth are now, with the passing of her cherished loved ones, an ode to memory, bearing the past into the present. It is the hour for gracious ghosts.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“even misery, when familiar, has its own comfort.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“there was never anything healing one could say. One could only be. The best friends in such times were those who had no agenda other than to be present, to offer themselves,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“She resists the reality of life: a married woman gives up her childhood home forever, and a widow’s fate is to remain in the home she married into.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“How did a small island wind up ruling half the globe? That’s what I want to know.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Pain has no past or future, just the now.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Men like to think that women forget the pain upon seeing the blessed baby. No. A woman forgives the child, and she might even forgive the father. But she never forgets.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water