My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone: from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been called, the government of the living by the dead. To a very considerable extent no doubt it is inevitable that the living should be so governed. The past gives us our vocabulary and fixes the limits of our imagination; we cannot get away from it. There is, too, a peculiar logical pleasure in making manifest the continuity between what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.
I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream, and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you'll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you'll eat yourself.
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.