Nishant

“My little French friends were, I was astonished to find, allowed to have a cigarette on Sunday, were given watered vin ordinaire at”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“baking bread splits in places and those cracks, while not intended in the baker’s art, catch our eye and serve to stir our appetite,” or the “charm and allure” of nature’s process, the “stalks of ripe grain bending low, the frowning brow of the lion, the foam dripping from the boar’s mouth.”
― Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

“What is it? Why does it matter? Do I need it? Do I want it? What are the hidden costs? Will I look back from the distant future and be glad I did it? If I never knew about it at all—if the request was lost in the mail, if they hadn’t been able”
― Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

“Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save face. Put yourself in his shoes—so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil—nothing is so self-blinding.”
― Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key