Shailaja

“At the end of that Roger Ebert essay, he says he decided to force himself to do the reading that he knew, deep down, his brain wanted and needed. When he gave himself the proper literary diet (and found a room in the house where his Wi-Fi connection failed), “I felt a kind of peace. This wasn’t hectic. I wasn’t skittering around here and there. I wasn’t scanning headlines and skimming pages and tweeting links. I was reading. . . . Maybe I can rewire my brain, budge it back a little in the old direction.”
― Michael Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Give people time. Give people space. Don’t beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What’s meant for you will always be yours.”
― Reyna Biddy