Ruhun Wasata

“the wise man celebrates what he can.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“In a state of self-pity, one may retreat from the world in which one has been blessed to live.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow