Karan Jaidka

“If a good person suffers, then the bad person should suffer even more: this is an idea that seems embedded in the human psyche. Consciously one denies it, of course, and proclaims piously, ‘I’m not the sort of person who holds grudges.’ Yet one unconsciously applauds when the villain ‘gets what he deserves’. Wanting to punish a villain or seeing him punished is ubiquitous in literature, movies and politics.”
― Gurcharan Das, The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma

“He likes to quote the Sufi poet Rumi: ‘Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller’, an aphorism also attributed to the Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta.”
― Stephen Alter, Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth

“True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one’s activities for peace of mind.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“At some point you have to choose between being happy or being “right.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money