Shaoli Das

“তারপর ওরা হাত ধরে চুপ করে বসে রইলো । আর কোনো কথা নেই, সমস্ত কথার প্রয়োজন ফুরিয়ে গেছে । ওরা বসেই রইলো । ঘাট ক্রমশ নির্জন হয়ে আসছে । বাতাস বইছে বেশ জোরে । বজরাগুলো ও ফিরে যাচ্ছে । সবাই ঘরে ফিরছে । এই দুজনের যেন কোনো ঘরবাড়ি নেই, কথাও ফিরতে হবেনা । এরকম একটি অনন্তকালের দৃশ্য হয়ে ওরা বসেই থাকবে ।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay, প্রথম আলো ১

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
― Bob Marley

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes