62 Quotes by Thrity Umrigar

Every year when I stands first in my class, Ma gives me the advice: Daughter, she say, never be gamandi. What you have, given to you by God. You just a basket into which God puts the flowers. Flowers not belong to you. They belongs to God. Same way, your clever belong to God.

When the God enter into your house, he not enter looking like the God. He enter looking like human being. God enter my life looking like Maggie. “Holy cow,” Maggie say, laughing. “I.

She is tired of it all – tired of this endless cycle of death and birth, tired of investing any hope in the next generation, tired and frightened of finding more human beings to love, knowing full well that every person she loves will someday wound her, hurt her, break her heart with their deceit, their treachery, their fallibility, their sheer humanity.

We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen when we change that narrative, when we begin to tell ourselves and others a different story. Surely.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – FLANNERY O’CONNOR “I.

People think that the ocean is made up of waves and things that float on top. But they forget – the ocean is also what lies at the bottom, all the broken things stuck in the sand. That, too, is the ocean.

The clarifying principle made clear the impermanence of things. It was an illusion, all of it – this life that they clung to, this earth that they battled over – a collective exercise in self-deception. The world was perishable.

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.