Random Musings

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” ― Hermann Hesse “The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible” ― Vladimir Nabokov “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin “Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.” ― Margaret Atwood “The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in yo...

'And in short measures life may perfect be'...What a beautiful line...what a timeless philosophy. Resonating ages later and making perfect sense even in this day and age. Isn't that how most of us lead our lives! Our lives seem perfect when measured in short bursts. There are phases, i'm sure in all our lives, when we experience that feeling of fulfillment, contentment, and that absolute sense of perfection, when we feel that 'yes, this is it!'. It is that phase when everything seems to just fall into place, like a jigsaw puzzle. That phase when our personal lives, professional lives, and all the roles that define us seem to be perfectly aligned. A phase where nothing seems to be out of place or out of sync. ...And then, again, just as seamlessly, as if moved by that invisible force called 'Time', things fall apart. Life moves on, as it does and it seems to put us back where we all began...a little out of step, a little out of sync...Like the...

Long after the page has been turned...long after the movie credits have rolled...long after the laptop has been shutdown...some lines linger on, for no apparent reason. Such is the power of the written word, i think...the words and lines...they stay on with you, they come back to you...they linger on... Some of those that have stayed with me... “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not...