Umesh Rao

“You don’t have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room on the Roof

“Running has a lot of advantages. First of all, you don’t need anybody else to do it, and no need for special equipment. You don’t have to go to any special place to do it. As long as you have running shoes and a good road you can run to your heart’s content.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: The book that made Harry Styles believe he could run a marathon

“But a lot is occurring in your mind—memories resurface as ghosts and imagination descends like a demon. That is why you suffer.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata

“Let us not be deceived by hope, because it betrays, or by love, because it grows weary, or by life, because it satiates but does not sate, or even by death, because it brings more than you want and less than you expect.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition