Gokul Kumar

“A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause. And it is all because people never attempt to reach the fountain-head. They are content only to comply with the customs of their forefathers and instructions on some books, and want others to do the same. But, to explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic