Ria

“Why be elated by material profit?” Father replied. “The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.”
― Sachin Kundalkar, Cobalt Blue

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane