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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Lessons and some beautiful lines from "Five People You Meet In Heaven"

  • "All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it tat time."
    • You will start believing this if you read the book during the same time as watching "JAB we MET" just like me. I think something has to end for something else to begin. Even when life ends the life at heaven begins is what is told here.
  • "All human lives are well connected. NO story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely like stones beneath a river."
  • "Death does not just take someone. It also misses someone else, and in the small distinction between being taken and missed, lives are changed. This is why we are drawn to babies, and to funerals."
  • "Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."
  • "No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
    • Well something prevents me from agreeing to this wholeheartedly.
  • "Over the centuries, courage has been confused with picking up arms and cowardice confused with laying them down."
    • I totally agree with this. I think real courage is in facing day to day small battles of life without losing heart. Courage is to take up responsibility when you not taking it wont be noticed. Courage is to tell the truth when you know it will harm your reputation. Courage is to make a promise and be committed to it than not making a promise at all.
  • "He felt as if a string had just shot from his heart and looped around her shoulders, pulling her close, making her his. He loved her more in that moment than he thought he ever could love anyone."
    • I think every person should be lucky to experience that one moment in life.
  • "Sacrifice is a part of life and not something to be regretted. Sometimes when you are sacrificing something precious, you are not really losing it. You are just passing it on to someone else."
  • "We move through places every day that would never have been if not for the people who came before us."
    • Fills me with a sense of gratitude for those who have contributed in small or large ways for where I am today.
  • "Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks a person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
  • "Love, like rain , can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
  • "Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, thats all. You cant see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when these senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurure it. You hold it. You dance with it."
    • Love is something that makes the lives of human beings alive.

2 comments:

Ramkumar R. Aiyengar said...

really nice quotes... ones you should live by...

Goda Ramkumar said...

@Ramkumar Well, that is a decision depending on the intensity of feeling I get when I read them.