Sanjeev Satheesh

“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“it seems impossible to talk of love and letting live, and if we are left to live, we are not usually loved.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love

“By forty, everyone has the face they deserve,’ wrote George Orwell,”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love

“Why is this painful journey so indispensable to the acquisition of true wisdom?…It is as if the mind were a squeamish organ that refused to entertain difficult truths unless encouraged to do so by difficult events. “Happiness is good for the body,” Proust tells us, “but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.” These griefs put us through a form of mental gymnastics which we would have avoided in happier times. Indeed, if a genuine priority is the development of our mental capacities, the implication is that we would be better off being unhappy than content, better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza. (Proust writes) A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius who interests us.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life