Manish

“life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.”
― Ruskin Bond, Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories

“So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

“A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.”
― Ruskin Bond, The India I Love

“I have never been a fast walker, or a conqueror of mountain peaks, but I can plod along for miles. And that's what I've been doing all my life—plodding along, singing my song, telling my tales in my own unhurried way. I have lived life at my own gentle pace, and if as a result I have failed to get to the top of the mountain (or of anything else), it doesn't matter, the long walk has brought its own sweet rewards; buttercups and butterflies along the way.   Ruskin Bond Landour, March 2005  ”
― Ruskin Bond, Roads to Mussoorie