“Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.” EndsMomentsDiesBorn Book:Nothing Source: Nothing
“Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?” ImportantBusyPretending Book:Nothing Source: Nothing
“That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsBelieveIdeasFacesKnow HowImpossibleStrangeEverydayAbsenceLoving SomeoneBelieve You Can Book:Mouthing The Words Source: Mouthing The Words
“Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.” GivingMadeTwoFactsStoriesRememberThreeBeliefSocialCommunityDifferencesFictionStepsGenerationsIdentityRootsLocalsPurityFabricWholenessThree Generations Book:Sweetness in the Belly Source: Sweetness in the Belly
“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 matters is what remains.” KnowsImportantEndsMatterSeemsDifferencesPhilosophicalRemainsWhat MattersQuarrels Author:Thrity Umrigar
“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 foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.” LeftFeetHabitWalkingBreathingLeft And RightLive For Others Author:Thrity Umrigar
“Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal” WellsKissingDevilAngelCurseLiquor Author:Thrity Umrigar
“Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.” PleasureHappenedDelightCrueltyBrutalityUnfairnessBanalityLife Happens Author:Thrity Umrigar
“The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.” WarSpeakLove IsWisePagesFortyJoyousTurner Author:Thrity Umrigar
“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, and honest book is a blueprint for living a happy, fulfilling life. Its lessons are timeless – and timely.” GivingYearsTwoBookWiseHonestDadLessonsTwo YearsCopiesCompassionateFulfillingTimelessEightyOld FriendsSixteenBlinkBlueprintsTimelyTwo Year OldsFulfilling LifeGod Never BlinksSixteen Year Olds Author:Thrity Umrigar