Koustubh

“He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon; then again also they who have succeeded them, until the whole remembrance shall have been extinguished as it is transmitted through men who foolishly admire and perish. But suppose that those who will remember are even immortal, and that the remembrance will be immortal, what then is this to thee? And I say not what is it to the dead, but what is it to the living? What is praise except indeed so far as it has a certain utility? For thou now rejectest unseasonably the gift of nature, clinging to something else . .”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“धर्म-ग्रंथ सब जला चुकी है जिसके अन्तर की ज्वाला, मंदिर, मस्जिद, गिरजे—सबको तोड़ चुका जो मतवाला, पंडित, मोमिन, पादरियों के फंदों को जो काट चुका कर सकती है आज उसी का स्वागत मेरी मधुशाला | 17”
― Harivansh Rai Bachchan, मधुशाला

“Sometimes you get stuck and it takes you days to find a way through the lurch, landslides and natural calamities.  It is the life of a mountaineer.”
― J. Alchem, Undelivered Letters

“He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened”; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the door of the Temple of Knowledge.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh