Rachna

“The starting point of history can always be shifted such that one is always instigating, the other always justified in response”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“elaborate systems of belief have been concocted and espoused over the centuries by man merely to buttress this sad need for meaning; indeed to make life’s transience bearable.”
― Cyrus Mistry, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer

“The longer the human soul swims in that pool of faith, soaking in the effulgence of its own dreams and longings, the more its need for rationality recedes, its very preoccupation with reality. Excuses are made for every frustration or impediment that doesn’t quite merge into the perfect blueprint of miraculous resolution already etched into one’s hopes and prayers: thus, there’s never any scope for disappointment. The person becomes blind to everything but the bewitchment of his own beliefs.”
― Cyrus Mistry, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer

“Many of us need to go far away to allow what we have left behind to become clearer”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee Au, Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life