Karthik Shetty

“I am no bird, no net ensnares me.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“What does it mean to be a self? I think, more than anything else, it means the ability to select between different possible outcomes in order to direct oneself toward a desired outcome: to be future-oriented. When every day is the same, when we are not presented with the necessity to choose between different possibilities, we say we don’t “feel alive”—and here I think we guess at what being alive actually is. It is the ability to choose. We live in choices.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace