Stories, poems, lines from articles and movies, punch-lines from ads… basically anything that caught my attention …

Books I’d recommend reading, and movies that are worth watching again, and again ….

      Must read books:

    

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – “I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll

                                                   see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens ….. Life will be a party for you, a grand

                                                   festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now. “

 

  “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

                                               

  “… that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by

                                                   fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”

 

                                                  “We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it’s doing to help us. It’s called

                                                   called the principle of favorability. Or beginner’s luck.”

 

 

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri – “Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers,

                                                                 the same combination of pity and respect.” – The only other book which made me cry as much as this is “Oliver Twist.”  

 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – “One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we

                                                          should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – “Tomorrow is another day.”

          The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough – the most tragic tale of love lost to the rules of society.

          Anything that P.G. Wodehouse ever wrote – if this can’t make you laugh, sorry my friend, the child inside you is lost forever.

          The Godfather by Mario Puzo – “Make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

          Love Story by Erich Segal – “Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.”

          Acts of Faith by Erich Segal – sometimes you have to make a choice between what people say is “right” and what you think is “right.”

          The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – “Don’t panic !”

 

          Lines and Poems:

          “ That you are here, and life exists, and identity,

            That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse ….”

– Walt Whitman

 

         “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in 
            my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
            i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
            by only me is your doing,my darling)
           
            i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
            no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
            and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
            and whatever a sun will always sing is you
 
            here is the deepest secret nobody knows
            (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
            and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
            higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
            and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
 
            i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)” –                                  
                                                                                                                                                - e e cummings
 
 

          “Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”- Anna Karenina

- Leo Tolstoy

 

          “If two people love each other, but they just can't seem to get it together, when do you get to that point of enough is enough?

           Never.”

– Samantha and Jerry in the movie “The Mexican (2001)”

 

“The Gods envy us. They envy us because we are mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.                     You’ll never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

                                                                                                                                      - Achilles in the movie “TROY (2004)

 

          “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery

— even if mixed with fear— that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest

reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that

constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.”

–        Albert Einstein

 

Must see movies:

Snatch, Dead Poets Society, Motorcycle Diaries, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Pirates of the Caribbean, Life is Beautiful, About a Boy, Napoleon Dynamite,

A Beautiful Mind, Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don’t Cry, Crash,

 

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