#lit

It takes darkness to be aware of the light. ↗

— Treasure Tatum

#contrast #light #spirituality #trials #trials

From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal. ↗

— Manu Joseph

#kashmir #non-resident-indian #politics #support #men

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone. ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#india #politics #india

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#psychiatry #psychology #spirituality #age

Is it better to be loved or feared? ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#political-philosophy #love

Once God wrote a story that shook the heaven to the very core. Love was the only language used; You and I were the only characters. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#passionate-love #philosophy-literature #relationship #love

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#grief #loss #love #pain #spirituality

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#passion #sensuality #words #love

Tatsuya: What you have "right now" won't necessarily continue on until forever... Hiro: ... Yeah, I know. ↗

— Ibuki Haneda

#forever #happiness #reality #love

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love