And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon!

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

You can cry in public as long as you do not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Part II of this edition. Read and stash away! (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) 

Understand yourself and those around you.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

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