Aakriti Kumar

“when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom