Nurshaan

“What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. As well”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

“I am nothing but a dilettante,
a dilettante in painting, in poetry, in music, and several other of the
so-called unprofitable arts.
Above all else I am a dilettante in life
Up to the present I have lived as I have painted and written poetry.
I never
got far beyond the preparation, the plan, the first act, the first stanza.
There are people like that who begin everything, and never finish anything.
I am
such a one.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“Could it really be so hard to just let it rain when it rains and be sunny when it’s sunny without complaining about it? Apparently the mind can’t do it: Why did it have to rain today? It always rains when I don’t want it to. It had all week to rain; it’s just not fair.”
― Mickey A. Singer, The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

“For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim