Thrity Umrigar Quotes

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• So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what…
• And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one…
• Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal
• Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
• The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.
• I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate,…
• All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps…
• Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is…
• India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,…
• And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am…
• Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken…
• Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.
• She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil…
• What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this…
• You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

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