We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.

A kiss is the morning dew which stand up. (Un baiser, c'est la rosée - Du matin qui s'est levé)

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.