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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)

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“Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them—and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“ശ്രീധരാ, ജീവിതം വഴിപിഴച്ചു വഷളാവാന്‍ തെറ്റുകള്‍ എമ്പാടുംവേണമെന്നില്ല. ചിലപ്പോള്‍ ഒരൊറ്റ തെറ്റു മതി- അവിവേകമായി ചെയ്ത ഒരു ദുഷ്കര്മത്തിന്റെ അനന്തരഫലമാണ് ഞാനിക്കാലമത്രയും അനുഭവിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നത്. യൌവനാരംഭാത്തിന്റെ ചോരത്തിളപ്പില്‍ വീരസാഹസങ്ങള്‍ വിനോദങ്ങളായി തോന്നും . വികാരങ്ങള്‍ ശമിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ എന്ത് അഗ്നിപരീക്ഷകള്‍ക്കും ചെറുപ്പക്കാര്‍ തയ്യാറാവും. പുതുതായിചിറകുകള്‍ മുളച്ചു പുഴു പാറ്റയായിതീരുന്നു. പുഷ്പമെന്നു കരുതിയിട്ടല്ല ഈയല്‍പാറ്റ തീനാളതോടടുക്കുന്നത്. ഒന്ന് പൊരുതി നോക്കാമെന്ന അഹങ്കാരമാണ് അതിനെ അഗ്നിജ്വാലയോടേറ്റുമുട്ടിക്കുന്നത്. ചിറകു കരിഞ്ഞു പിടഞ്ഞു ചാവുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു.”
― S.K. Pottekkatt, ഒരു ദേശത്തിന്റെ കഥ | Oru Desathinte Katha

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“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“അതിരാണിപ്പാടത്തെ പുതിയ തലമുറയുടെ കാവല്‍ക്കാരാ, അതിക്രമിച്ചു കടന്നത്‌ പൊറുക്കൂ - പഴയ കൌതുകവസ്തുക്കള്‍ തേടിനടക്കുന്ന ഒരു പരദേശിയാണ് ഞാന്‍”
― S.K. Pottekkatt, ഒരു ദേശത്തിന്റെ കഥ | Oru Desathinte Katha

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“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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