Carichi Pendenti Quotes & Sayings

Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life. — Michael Neill

My wife's name was Mala. The marriage had been arranged by my older brother and his wife. I regarded the proposition with neither objection nor enthusiasm. It was a duty expected of me, as it was expected of every man. She was the daughter of a schoolteacher in Beleghata. I was told that she could cook, knit, embroider, sketch landscapes, and recite poems by Tagore, but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not possess a fair complexion, and so a string of men had rejected her to her face. She was twenty-seven, an age when her parents had begun to fear that she would never marry, and so they were willing to ship their only child halfway across the world in order to save her from spinsterhood. — Jhumpa Lahiri

She took her mind away with a wrench from the recollection of the past to the bright serene contemplation of the hopeful future. — Elizabeth Gaskell

At conferences, black boys were assembled. At schools we were herded into auditoriums. At home, mothers summoned us to dinner tables, and there they delivered the news: Our time was short. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. — Baltasar Gracian

My whole life feels undeclared. — Katie Cotugno

There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw — Cassandra Clare

Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage. — Linda Fairstein

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout. — Steve Blake

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. — Saint Augustine

The brave come in many shapes and sizes, — Heather Lyons

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere. — Scott Sanders

The remoteness of a thing is in proportion rather to the visual power of the memory that is looking at it than to the real interval of the intervening days, — Marcel Proust