Biman

“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“for it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables