Shwetha Jayaraj

“How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“PLAYER: Uncertainty is the normal state. You're nobody special.
*He makes to leave again. GUIL loses his cool.*
GUlL: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?l
PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go
through life questioning your situation at every turn.
GUIL: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with
ourselves. We don't know how to *act*.
PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.
GUIL : We only know what we're told, and that's little enough.
And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to
be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be
true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing
behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it
is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you
assume?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett