The point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure at all – and, more important, the pleasure you will be privileged to bring him.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
We at Nalanda love stable, predictable …
We at Nalanda love stable, predictable, boring industries. Give us electric fans over electric vehicles, boilers over biotech, sanitaryware over semiconductors, and enzymes over e-commerce. We like industries in which the winners and losers have been largely sorted out and the rules of the game are apparent to everyone. For everything else, thanks, but no thanks.
– from What I Learned About Investing from Darwin book by Pulak Prasad
I live on the edge. I’m …
I live on the edge. I’m only free because I’m not afraid. Everything I was afraid of already happened to me.
– from Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter book by Curtis Jackson
No fortune can hold out against …
No fortune can hold out against constant wastefulness!
– from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
This world throws all kinds of …
This world throws all kinds of obstacles at us, we are forced to endure so much that is absurd. Our best weapon for fighting all the pain and trouble in the world isn’t logic or violence. It’s humour.
– from The Cat Who Saved Books book by Sosuke Natsukawa
Possessing a creative mind, after all …
Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
History, like human life, is at …
History, like human life, is at once incredibly fast and agonizingly slow.
– from The Anthropocene Reviewed book by John Green
Time is that which God uses …
Time is that which God uses to separate the idle from the industrious. For time is a mountain and upon seeing its steep incline, the idle will lie down among the lilies of the field and hope that someone passes by with a pitcher of lemonade.
– from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Books were more than words on …
Books were more than words on paper; they were portals to other places, other lives.
– from The Lost Bookshop book by Evie Woods
Reading about life was no preparation …
Reading about life was no preparation for living it.
– from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides