Bhutanese Food Quotes & Sayings

The greatest religion gives suffering to nobody," reads a weather-beaten sign, quoting the Buddha, at Chele La pass, the highest motorable point in the country, near Paro. This maxim is everywhere evident. As a Bhutanese friend and I walked in the mountains one afternoon, he reflexively removed insects from the path and gently placed them in the verge, out of harm's way. Early one morning in Thimphu, I saw a group of young schoolboys, in their spotless white-sleeved ghos, crouching over a mouse on the street, gently offering it food. In Bhutan, the horses that trudge up the steep trail to the Tiger's Nest monastery are reserved for out-of-shape tourists; Bhutanese don't consider horses beasts of burden and prefer not to make them suffer under heavy loads. Even harvesting honey is considered a sign of disrespect for the industrious bees; my young guide, Kezang, admonished me for buying a bottle of Bhutanese honey to take home. (Chastened, I left it there.) In — Madeline Drexler

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. — Bill Gates

I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are the loudest. And that's why it feels like we are polarized. — Christopher Titus

I just want to do things that scratch an itch for me. That itch is often something that feels wrong. It's wrong because it breaks convention or is unexpected or at times uncomfortable. I like that feeling. — Stephen Colbert

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. — George MacDonald

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well. — Janet Jackson

In war, only the simple succeeds. — Paul Von Hindenburg

I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap. — Hanya Yanagihara

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. — Peter Zumthor

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare

I will teach you many things, little star." He has that look on his face that I can't read. His eyes seem even darker than I remember. They're a contrast to the softness of his touch on my cheek and lips. — Alexa Riley

It was so kind of you to write to me about your experiences during the Occupation. At the war's end, I, too, promised myself that I had done with talking about it. I had talked and lived war for six years, and I was longing to pay attention to something - anything - else. But that is like wishing I were someone else. The war is now the story of our lives, and there's no subtracting it. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful too. — Unknown

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny The Elder

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being. — Deepak Chopra