Devashish Mehta

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“How true! Life's problems are like trees. We see the trunk, we see the branches and the leaves. But we can't see the roots, hidden deep down under the ground. And yet it is their shape and nature and how far they dig into the slimy humus to search for water that we need to know. Then perhaps we would understand.”
― Maryse Condé, Crossing the Mangrove

“If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“we have of seeing love and romance as some kind of sacred, magical realm where things just fall into place, if they are meant to. This might seem romantic and quaint, but it is really just a cover for our laziness.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction