Amrita

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”
― Raymond Carver, The Bridle

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984