Priyanka

“He had never asked anything from them; it was they who wished to hold him, they who pressed a claim on him- and the claim seemed to have the form of affection, but it was a form which he found harder to endure than any sort of hatred. He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. he wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner- if his response was what they wanted. And it was, he thought; else why those constant complaints, those unceasing accusations about his indifference? Why that chronic air of suspicion, as if they were waiting to be hurt? He had never had a desire to hurt them, but he had always felt their defensive, reproachful expectation; they seemed wounded by anything he said, it was not a matter of his words or actions, it was almost ... almost as if they wounded by the mere fact of his being.”
― Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“तुझी समस्या काय आहे, तर तू आधी आपला आकार वाढवतोस आणि मग तो मावण्यासाठी योग्य जागा शोधतोस.”
― गिरीश कुबेर

“शुद्ध सोनं जसंदागिन्याला निरूपयोगी असतं तशी शुद्ध निर्मलतासुद्धा माणसाला आवडत नसावी. त्यात थोडंसं ढोंग, नाटकीपणा यांची भेसळ असल्याशिवाय हे नाणं चलनी ठरत नाही. आपल्या निर्मळपणाची ग्वाही जीभ चावून देणारी माणसं माणसाला प्रिय असतात. स्त्री हा प्राणी तर इतका अजब आहे - त्याला माणसाची हीच जात अधिक आवडते, विश्वासार्ह वाटते!”
― S. N. Pendse