Xoi

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place.

Or, at least not yet again.

As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possesses by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul.' (Landscapes of the Heart by Motojiro Kajii)”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Duniya ke mehfilon se ukta gaya hoon ya Rab
Kya lutf anjuman ka , jab dil hi bujh gaya ho
Shorish se bhagta hoon, dil dhoondta hai mera
Aisa sukoot jis pe taqreer bhi fida ho

I am weary of worldly gatherings, O Lord
What pleasure in them, when the light in my heart is gone?
From the clamour of crowds I flee, my heart seeks
The kind of silence that would mesmerize speech itself”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness