Prasanna Kumar

“In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.

“At watershed moments of upheaval and transformation, we anticipate with terror the absence of the familiar parts of life and of ourselves that are being washed away by the current of change. But we fail to envision the unfamiliar gladness and gratifications the new tide would bring, the unfathomed presences, for our imaginations are bounded by our experience. The unknown awakens in us a reptilian dread that plays out with the same ferocity on scales personal, societal, and civilizational, whether triggered by a new life-chapter or a new political regime or a new world order.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...”
― William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph