“a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.”
“Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” - Owen”
Source: Tie Me
“Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.”
Source: Afternoon Raag
“If I only had a kettle and a cat here, she said to herself, I'd be a perfect picture of a useless old lady.”
“Give a man a fish
and a kettle,
and he may never feel its HIS kettle of fish.
Teach a man to fish around for his OWN kettle,
and that’s when you get
a tasty home-made fish soup
that everyone can enjoy!”
Source: ICE SKATING IN THE TAJ MAHAL - a totally non-depressing look at poverty
“You can take the kettle from the dayo but not the dayo from the kettle”
“When you have multiple options and you can choose only one, you often feel unhappy about discarding the rest of the options, when your chosen option does not provide you happiness and satisfaction. Also, when you have multiple options, you never feel settled since you are always moving from one option to another, one person to another and one job to another which ends up making your life more miserable than enjoyable.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Never organize what you can discard.”
Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
“This is how you will remember that you are mine. Every painful touch, every
aching hug, will remind you - that you are a slave - to me.”
Source: The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
“If she wanted you, her eyes would buy you out - and you won’t even know it. She
was three parts devil, and two parts human; and what remained - unchained
spirit.”
Source: The Eyes that drowned Uyuni