Thiruppathi Muthukumar

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it….”
― The School of Life, How to Find Love

“காட்சியூடகம் மொழியூடகத்துக்கு பதிலி ஆக ஒருபோதும் அமையமுடியாது என்றுதான். அதற்கான காரணத்தையும் பலமுறை சொல்லியிருக்கிறேன். மானுடமனதில் சிந்தனை என்பது மொழிவடிவிலேயே ஓடுகிறது. வாசிப்பு அந்த அகமொழியை வலுப்பெறச்செய்கிறது. அதுவே சிந்தனையின் வலிமையும் ஆகிறது. காட்சியூடகம் நம் அகமொழியை தீட்டுவதில்லை. அது வெறுமே காட்சிப்படிமங்களையே அளிக்கிறது.”
― Jeyamohan

“PERFECTION The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“The real skill is not always to strive to make better choices; it’s to know how to make our peace with our necessarily bad choices. We”
― The School of Life, How to Find Love