“a sermon was meant to be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the essentials and short enough to keep one interested!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“Wer war der thor, wer weiser, bettler oder kaiser? Ob arm, ob reich, im tode gleich.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“At the end of the day, all humans were merely skull and bones.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“It’s important to let go of your guilt. Life puts us in situations so that we can learn from them. Once we have learned, it’s time to throw away the guilt and move on,”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“Anandamides are naturally occurring neurotransmitters in the brain whose chemical make-up is very similar to cannabis. The word ‘anandamide’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ananda,”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“One should never let sleeping dogs lie.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“Man has free will and creates his destiny based upon his actions.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“Perhaps one day the man in the black jacket will think about this too: why he only wondered if it was Kevin or Amat who was telling the truth. Why Maya’s word wasn’t enough.”
― Fredrik Backman, quote from Beartown
“Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.”
― Epictetus, quote from The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
“And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.”
― Vikram Chandra, quote from Red Earth and Pouring Rain
“People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home. ”
― Annie Dillard, quote from Holy the Firm
“Geist und Tat. Spirit and Action.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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