“You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don’t get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don’t want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that’s how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“How could God design millions of new faces each day, keeping in mind the resemblance to the progenitor, who in turn was His genesis?”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“Sometimes you have to leave yourself to the mercy of someone else. Not because you are weak or less powerful, but just because nature wants it that way.
The earth revolves around the sun; even its ego can’t change that as it’s the very basis of its survival. I had left myself to the mercy of God, believing He would help keep me going and still continue to be around.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“They say you should never hide anything from your doctors and lawyers. Hiding from a doctor could lead your way to heaven (or hell). Hiding from a lawyer could land you behind bars. Doctors give you the right direction to your present and lawyers give a picture to your future. They need to know more than what you could share with your best of friends.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“Where had all the morality vanished from earth? Were we, women, always meant to live in fear, behave like puppets for the ever-demanding desires of selfish men? Did God forget to add a chapter on women’s prerogative when He was designing and creating this world? Or maybe HE himself was a man; the distinguished ruler whom nobody could question; who could make and amend His own rules as per His wishes and desires.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“A life-mate is supposed to fulfil the basic standards of a life cycle and a soul-mate is the one purely connected to your heart.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“There’s no guarantee that all will be perfect but the hope for another day keeps us going.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“The objective of adding more hours is to achieve the targets and not vice versa.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
“The earth is round. If you stand at the South Pole, it doesn’t mean you are upside down, neither are you on top of the world at the North Pole. You will still remain the same and the earth treats you no differently. So stay grounded. Your places can change, and so can time.”
― Shikha Kaul, quote from Hidden Husband
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“It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Rush Too Far
“It is the opinion of most thoughtful students of life that happiness in this world depends chiefly on the ability to take things as they come. An instance of one who may be said to have perfected this attitude is to be found in the writings of a certain eminent Arabian author who tells of a traveller who, sinking to sleep one afternoon upon a patch of turf containing an acorn, discovered when he woke that the warmth of his body had caused the acorn to germinate and that he was now some sixty feet above the ground in the upper branches of a massive oak. Unable to descend, he faced the situation equably. ‘I cannot,’ he observed, ‘adapt circumstances to my will: therefore I shall adapt my will to circumstances. I decide to remain here.’ Which he did.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Leave It to Psmith
“وعندما اتضح لنابليون أن قواته أصغر من أن تفرض نفسها على المصريين، حاول أن يجعل الأئمة والقضاة والمفتين والعلماء المحليين يفسرون القرآن لصالح الجيش الفرنسي. ومن ثم دعا إلى مقر إقامته العلماء الستين الذين كانوا يتولون التدريس في الأزهر وأنعم عليهم بمراتب التكريم العسكرية الكاملة، ثم داهنهم نابليون بالإعراب عن إعجابه بالإسلام وبمحمد - صلى الله عليه وسلم -، وبتبجيله الواضح للقرآن، وكان فيما يبدو يعرفه خير المعرفة. ونجح في ذلك، وسرعان ما بدا أن سكان القاهرة قد فقدوا ارتيابهم بالمحتلين.
وبعدها أصدر نابليون تعليمات صارمة لنائبه كليبر بأن يدير مصر دائما، بعد رحيله، من خلال المستشرقين والزعماء الدينيين الإسلاميين الذين يستطيع المستشرقون استمالتهم، أما أي منهج سياسي آخر فهو باهظ التكاليف وبالغ الحمق.”
― Edward W. Said, quote from Orientalism
“I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Lord Edgware Dies
“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
― Jules Verne, quote from From the Earth to the Moon
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