Meko Natroshvili

“Oh, right, I keep forgetting, for lots and lots of people in the world, the notion of “falling in love” has (of all things) sexual connotations. No, that’s not what I think is happening. For me, what falling in love means is different. It’s a matter of suddenly, globally, “knowing” that another person represents your only access to some vitally
transmissible truth
or radiantly heightened
mode of perception,
and that if you lose the thread of this intimacy, both your soul and your whole world might subsist forever in some desert-like state of ontological impoverishment.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love

“it is the cowards who walk out of the fighting, but if one is to win honor in battle, he must by all means 410  stand his ground strongly, whether he be struck or strike down another.”
― Homer, The Iliad of Homer

“We may not be able to control the events, but we can always control our response to them. We need to ensure that our perspective is an empowering and resourceful one”
― Monjyoti Bhattacharyya, A Relentless Pursuit of the Truth - A philosophical guide to living a life of fulfillment and meaning

“In his view, the ancient Japanese way, where men would meet and “bow to each other for as much as half an hour speaking words of greeting, gradually moving closer together, understanding the necessity of entering another’s consciousness carefully,”1 was a good one.”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen