Orawan Promsawasdi Quotes & Sayings

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion. — Sharon Salzberg

Thither daily, and oftentimes a day, generally after each meal, we saw our father retire, and "shut to the door"; and we children got to understand by a sort of spiritual instinct (for the thing was too sacred to be talked about) that prayers were being poured out there for us, as of old by the High Priest within the veil in the Most Holy Place. We occasionally heard the pathetic echoes of a trembling voice pleading as if for life, and we learned to slip out and in past that door on tiptoe, not to disturb the holy colloquy. — John G. Paton

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature. — Jonathan Kellerman

Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or lobsters. Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare. — Nayomi Munaweera

He plough on Sunday, Sir.
Plough on Sunday?! — Arthur Miller

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness — F Scott Fitzgerald