Mrittika Deb

“What emerged for me as purpose was the search for and cultivation of possibilities for experiencing meaningful human transactions in different languages and across cultural differences through play, sports, travel, food, literature, and conversation. I sought to establish relations of mutual understanding and love with people no matter what their culture or place of origin in the world—relations based on philia, eros, and agape, according to context and persons. I perhaps sensed instinctively that such relations were the key to being equally at home everywhere, even in la Yunai. More than an immigrant, at that time I still felt myself to be a sojourner in this country, but I wanted my sojourn to be imbued with the meaning found in earnest, sincere connections with the people and places that life brought to my experience.”
― Daniel G. Campos, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction

“চিরকালের জানা যখন এক মুহূর্তে অজানা হয়ে ওঠে তখন সে এক বিভীষিকা।”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“দুঃখ যদি না পাবে তো দুঃখ তোমার ঘুচবে কবে ?
বিষকে বিষের দাহ দিয়ে দহন করে মারতে হবে ।।
জ্বলতে দে তোর আগুনটারে, ভয় কিছু না করিস তারে,
ছাই হয়ে সে নিভবে যখন জ্বলবে না আর কভু তবে ।।
এড়িয়ে তাঁরে পালাস না রে, ধরা দিতে হোস না কাতর ।
দীর্ঘ পথে ছুটে ছুটে দীর্ঘ করিস দুঃখটা তোর ।
মরতে মরতে মরণটারে শেষ ক'রে দে একেবারে,
তারপরে সেই জীবন এসে আপন আসন আপনি লবে ।।”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don't think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.”
― Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret