“Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.”
― Ruskin Bond, quote from Delhi Is Not Far
“The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.”
― Ruskin Bond, quote from Delhi Is Not Far
“I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.”
― Ruskin Bond, quote from Delhi Is Not Far
“Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.”
― Ruskin Bond, quote from Delhi Is Not Far
“I do not mind difficulties, as long as they are new difficulties.”
― Ruskin Bond, quote from Delhi Is Not Far
Ruskin Bond
Born place: in Kasauli, British Indian Ocean Territory
Born date May 19, 1934
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“Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.”
― Mary Roach, quote from Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“لقد طردتهم السماء كي لايَنقٌص جمالها , ولا تقبلهم الجحيمُ العميقة حتى لا يُحرِزَ الآثمون عليهم بعض الفخر..!”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from La Divina Comedia
“But who said that I am to be measured by how well I do things? In fact, who said that I should be measured at all? Who indeed? What is required to disengage oneself from this trap is a clear knowledge that the value of a human being cannot be measured by performance—or by any other arbitrary measurement.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, quote from The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
“A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.”
― K. Anders Ericsson, quote from Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
“Ruin of Hell’s realm! You have been chosen as one of the Seven Sons of Zion.” “Hell!”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Seven Sons of Zion
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