Ruchi Bhatia

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Why do only one in five women work? That’s what I wanted to get behind.”
― Shaili Chopra, Sisterhood Economy: Of, By, For Wo

“the growth of cities is a sequence, alike ineluctable and pitiless, of the modern struggle for existence.”
― William J. Dawson, The Quest of the Simple Life

“Blessed is he who has variety in his life: thrice blessed is he who has both freedom and variety:”
― William J. Dawson, The Quest of the Simple Life