Aran Chandran

“Large-scale coffee planting in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak and Johor in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was entirely a European effort, with a number of former planters from Ceylon participating. As the first commercial crop that could be successfully grown in much of British Malaya, coffee brought in capital and management personnel, and led to the importation of Tamil and Javanese labour.”
― Barbara Watson Andaya, A History of Malaysia

“Life isn’t fair, and the minute we get that through our heads and stop trying to control things we can’t, we can shed the fear and guilt that kills our motivation.”
― Sean Tucker, The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Seneca