Quotable Quotes Part II

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This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down...
R.K.Narayan, Malgudi Days

(1906-2001)

 

[vgane]

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.


R.K.Narayan

(1906-2001)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass
I returned from the village. The house seemed unbearably dull. But I bore it. "There is no escape from loneliness and separation...." I told myself often. "Wife, child, brothers, parents, friends.... We come together only to go apart again. It is one continuous movement. They move away from us as we move away from them. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle and misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. My mother got away from her parents, my sisters from our house, I and my brother away from each other, my wife was torn away from me, my daughter is going away with my mother, my father has gone away from his father, my earliest friends - where are they? They scatter apart like the droplets of a waterspray. The law of life. No sense in battling against it...." Thus I reconciled myself to this separation with less struggle than before.”

R.K.Narayan, The English Teacher

(1906-2001)

We are like the logs floating in a lake.
We move closer together at times.
We drift farther apart at other times.
Life is a series of meeting and parting.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices
R.K.Narayan, The English Teacher

(1906-2001)

We belong neither here nor there! :tsk:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down...
R.K.Narayan, Malgudi Days

(1906-2001)

What we bring into existence and

help to grow well is our child undoubtedly!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.


R.K.Narayan

(1906-2001)

I KNOW! When I sit with my P.C or pen, :typing:

it is deepest meditation I can ever achieve!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Anything done with 100% concentration is Yoga.

It can be reading/ writing/ singing/ dancing/

or even reading newspaper and watching the idiot box.

When this yoga is accompanied by sacrifices of personal comforts

and luxuries, it become tapas or penance done for a specific purpose.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

எற்றைக்கும் ஏழேழ் பிறவிக்கும் உன்தன்னோடு
உற்றோமே ஆவோம் உனக்கே நாம் ஆட்செய்வோம்.
ஆண்டாள்.

உன்னைப் புகழ்ந்து பேசுவதை விட உனக்குப் பணிவிடைகள் செய்வேன் ஆகுக
இரண்டு வேலைக்காரர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள் ஒருவனிடம்.
ஒருவன் எஜமானனைப் புகழ்ந்து பேசிக் கொண்டே இருப்பான்
ஒரு வேலையையும் சரியாகச் செய்ய மாட்டான்.
மற்றவன் பேசுவற்கு நிற்க மாட்டான், வேலைகளைச் சரியாகச் செய்வான்.
இவர்களில் எவன் எஜமானனுக்கு அதிக மகிழ்ச்சி அளிப்பான்?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

சும்மா இருப்பதுவே சுட்டற்ற பூரணமென்று
எம்மால் அறிவதற்கு எளிதோ பராபரமே!
தாயுமானவர்.

உரை குத்திய பால் அசையாமல் இருந்தால் நன்றாக உறைகிறது.
அசையாத நீர்ப்பரப்பு பொருட்களை நன்கு பிரதிபலிகின்றது.
சும்மா இருக்கும் அளவுக்கு அது சுக ஸ்வரூபமாகின்றது.
சும்மா இருப்பது சுகம் என்றால் உடலால் அல்ல;
மனம் அடங்கி எண்ண அலைகள் ஒடுங்குவது!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

நானேதும் அறியாமே என்னுள் வந்து
நல்லனவும் தீயனவும் காட்டா நின்றாய்.
அப்பர் .

ஒவ்வொரு எண்ணமும், ஒவ்வொரு செயலும் மனிதனை மாற்றி அமைக்கின்றன.
நல்ல எண்ணம், நல்ல சொல், நல்ல செயல் மனிதனை குணவான் ஆக்குகின்றன.
மனிதனாகப் பிறந்ததன் நோக்கமே நல்ல குணவான் ஆவது தான்.

 

[vgane]

Would like to share quotes of Thomas Stearns Eliot aka T.S.Eliot who was a American playwright, literary and social critic. He moved to U.K at the age of 25. In 1948 he received Nobel Prize in Literature
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

[vgane]

“In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.”

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Would like to share quotes of Thomas Stearns Eliot aka T.S.Eliot who was a American playwright, literary and social critic. He moved to U.K at the age of 25. In 1948 he received Nobel Prize in Literature
.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

So 'Doing harm' is a bye product of 'feeling important'!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

The holes in one man's cheese is

the cheese in another man's holes!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

But one will know it is too far ONLY when it becomes impossible to return.

In other words he finds out that is too far only after he crosses the point of no return!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

Everything in life goes in cycles.

Examples are the fashion and the fortune.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T.S.Eliot
(1888-1965)

Does that mean that it hardly matters whether

we keep moving forwards or backwards ??? :noidea:

If we keep going circles with the no end points

then this should be the case. :high5: