Amit Ray · 164 pages
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“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
― Amit Ray, quote from World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.”
― Amit Ray, quote from World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.”
― Amit Ray, quote from World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
― Amit Ray, quote from World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”
― Amit Ray, quote from World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“I love to soar in the boundless sky. In the vast emptiness of the blue, my soul rejoices listening to the soundless music of the wind.”
― Amit Ray, quote from World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.”
― Amit Ray, quote from World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“His proximity should disgust her, but it only confused her.”
― Anne Blankman, quote from Prisoner of Night and Fog
“... Full of old cockatoos who used to be rich and aren't any longer, but they cling to yesterday tooth and nail, preferring to live on bread and sardines rather than sell what little they have left of their faded glory.”
― María Dueñas, quote from The Time in Between
“Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they’d need to destroy something that precious to feel full.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Ink and Bone
“The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off—it just gives up, resets itself to zero.”
― Alastair Reynolds, quote from Revelation Space
“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder. I think this is true even for normal children. I have watched little children learning to walk; they all struggle and fall down many times. Their faces show that it is not easy. It would be stupid to tie bricks on them to make it harder. If that is true for learning to walk, then I think it is true for other growing and learning as well.
God is suppose to be the good parent, the Father. So I think God would not make things harder than they are. I do not think I am autistic because God thought my parents needed a challenge or I needed a challenge. I think it is like if I were a baby and a rock fell on me and broke my leg. Whatever caused it was an accident. God did not prevent the accident, but He did not cause it, either.... I think my autism is an accident, but what I do with it is me.”
― Elizabeth Moon, quote from The Speed of Dark
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