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“परीक्षा गुणों को अवगुण, सुंदर को असुंदर बनाने वाली चीज है, प्रेम अवगुणों को गुण बनाता है,
असुंदर को सुंदर!”
― गोदान [Godaan]
असुंदर को सुंदर!”
― गोदान [Godaan]
“Suddenly Yudhisthira saw a yaksha approaching him. The being sat in front of him and began firing questions rapidly at him.
What is bigger than the Earth? the yaksha asked.
"A mother" replied Yudhisthira.
What is taller than the sky?
"A father"
What is faster than the wind?
"The mind , of course". Yudhisthira smiled.
What grows faster than hay?
"Worry"
What is the greatest dharma in the world? queried the yaksha
"Compassion and conscience"
With who is friendship never-ending?
"With good people" responded Yudhisthira patiently.
What is the secret to never feeling unhappy?
"If one can control his or her mind, then that person will never feel sad"
The yaksha increase his pace now.
What is the greatest kind of wealth.
"Education"
What is the greatest kind of profit?
"Health"
What is the greatest kind of happiness?
"Contentment" said Yudhisthira, ever prompt with his replies.
What is man's worst enemy?
"Anger"
What disease will never have a cure?
"Greed is incurable"
The yaksha smiled again. A last question my friend. What is life's biggest irony?
"It is the desire to live eternally. Every day, we encounter people dying but we always think that death will never come to us.”
― The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata
What is bigger than the Earth? the yaksha asked.
"A mother" replied Yudhisthira.
What is taller than the sky?
"A father"
What is faster than the wind?
"The mind , of course". Yudhisthira smiled.
What grows faster than hay?
"Worry"
What is the greatest dharma in the world? queried the yaksha
"Compassion and conscience"
With who is friendship never-ending?
"With good people" responded Yudhisthira patiently.
What is the secret to never feeling unhappy?
"If one can control his or her mind, then that person will never feel sad"
The yaksha increase his pace now.
What is the greatest kind of wealth.
"Education"
What is the greatest kind of profit?
"Health"
What is the greatest kind of happiness?
"Contentment" said Yudhisthira, ever prompt with his replies.
What is man's worst enemy?
"Anger"
What disease will never have a cure?
"Greed is incurable"
The yaksha smiled again. A last question my friend. What is life's biggest irony?
"It is the desire to live eternally. Every day, we encounter people dying but we always think that death will never come to us.”
― The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata
“आत्मविश्वास धन का होता है, विद्या का भी और बल का भी, पर सबसे बड़ा आत्मविश्वास नासमझी का होता है ।”
― निठल्ले की डायरी
― निठल्ले की डायरी
“Sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.”
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
“The word sadness originally meant "fullness," from the same Latin root, satis, that also gave us sated and satisfaction. Not so long ago, to be sad meant you were filled to the brim with some intensity of experience. It wasn't just a malfunction in the joy machine. It was a state of awareness– setting the focus to infinity and taking it all in, joy and grief all at once. When we speak of sadness these days, most of the time what we really mean is despair, which is literally defined as the absence of hope. But true sadness is actually the opposite, an exuberant upwelling that reminds you how fleeting and mysterious and open-ended life can be. That's why you'll find traces of the blues all over this book, but you might find yourself feeling strangely joyful at the end of it. And if you are lucky enough to feel sad, well, savor it while it lasts– if only because it means that you care about something in this world enough to let it under your skin.”
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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