jahnavi

“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski

“जिंदगी में कुछ नोना–नमकीन और कुछ मिश्री–मीठा । इतना ही । पछतावा कैसा ! सबकी जन्मपत्री चितकबरी ही हुआ करती है । हर्ष–शोक, लाभ–हानि, ऊँच–नीच–सब बारी–बारी अपनी झलक दिखाते हैं । ऐसा किसी के हाथ में नहीं कि फुलझड़ियाँ ही छूटती रहें । सब गर्म–सर्द समय में घुल–मिल जाते हैं । इसकी नाकाबंदी ऊपरवाले के सिवाय कोई दूसरा नहीं कर सकता । पर एक बात समझने की है । जो पोत बनाएँगे, वही सागर में उतरेंगे । श्रम करेंगे तो फल पाएँगे । यही उत्स है । जीनेवालों की प्राप्ति ।”
― कृष्णा सोबती [Krishna Sobti], ऐ लड़की

“Once we become conscious, even dimly, of the Atman, the Reality within us, the world takes on a very different aspect. It is no longer a court of justice but a kind of gymnasium. Good and evil, pain and pleasure, still exist, but they seem more like the ropes and vaulting-horses and parallel bars which can be used to make our bodies strong. Maya is no longer an endlessly revolving wheel of pain and pleasure but a ladder which can be climbed to consciousness of the Reality.”
― Adi Shankaracarya, Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Homer, The Iliad