Ruchi Pratap

“How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“So you must do right for the sake of the right, not in the hope of reward; you must work for the sake of the work, not in the hope of seeing the result; you must give yourself to the service of the world because you love it, and cannot help giving yourself to it.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, At the Feet of the Master

“The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs; A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings!”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

“One can press a man as far as one likes—but with a woman one must not press too far. For a woman has at heart a great desire to speak the truth. How many husbands who have deceived their wives go comfortably to their graves, carrying their secret with them! How many wives who have deceived their husbands wreck their lives by throwing the fact in those same husbands’ teeth! They have been pressed too far. In a reckless moment (which they will afterwards regret, bien entendu) they fling safety to the winds and turn at bay, proclaiming the truth with great momentary satisfaction to themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd