Amrutha Manoj

“To this day, the valuation report of 2007 sits in my office, reminding me that self-belief and aspiration are more valuable than resources.”
― Joy Alukkas, Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller

“So that’s why when I buy a new house—and there have been many (never underestimate a geographic)—it has to have a view. I want the sense that I can look down on safety, on someplace where someone is thinking of me, at a place where love is. Down there, somewhere in that valley, or in that vast ocean out there beyond the Pacific Coast Highway, on the gleaming primaries of the red-tail’s wings, that’s where parenting is.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

“To cite another saying in Malayalam: ‘Nikkunnidathu nikkanenki odikondirikkanam’. This can be broadly translated as, ‘to remain where you are, you have to run’. Life is a treadmill; you have to keep running to stay in the same place. In other words, if you want to go further, you have to spread your wings and fly.”
― Joy Alukkas, Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller

“In many respects, his education was excellent. He had an unusual memory and had done well in history. He spoke French and German, and his English was so good that he could have fooled an Oxford professor into mistaking him for an Englishman. He rode beautifully, danced gracefully and was an excellent shot. He had been taught to keep a diary and, in the style of innumerable princes and gentlemen of that era,”
― Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family