Top 100 Ruskin Bond Quotes
#1. Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My
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#2. That man is strongest who stands alone!
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#3. I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.
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#4. And the earth itself. It smells different in different places. But its loveliest fragrance is known only when it receives a shower of rain. and then the scent of the wet earth rises as though it would give something beautiful back to the clouds. A blend of all the fragrant things that grow upon it.
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#5. Begum Para, did I say? Not the Begum Para? The saucy heroine of the silver screen? And why not? This remarkable lady had dropped in from Pakistan to play the part of my grandmother in Shubhadarshini's serial Ek Tha Rusty, based on stores of my childhood.
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#7. A Quiet Mind Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound and healthy body, That I might share In the joy of walking And leaping and running; And a good sense of direction So I might know just where I'm going!
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#8. * The blackest cloud I've ever seen squatted over Mussoorie, and then it hailed marbles for half an hour. Nothing like a hailstorm to clear the sky . Even as I write, I see a rainbow forming.
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#9. The other day a young Internet surfer asked me why I preferred using a pencil instead of a computer. The principal reason, I told him, was that I liked chewing on the end of my pencil. A nasty habit, but it helps me concentrate. And I find it extremely difficult to chew on a computer.
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#10. Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own
spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind
I've still got the dream.
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#11. So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.
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#12. Strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love
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#13. We must move on, of course. There's no point in hankering after distant pleasures and lost picture palaces. But there's no harm in indulging in a little nostalgia. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past? And
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#14. When I have sung my songs to you, I'll sing no more,' goes the old ballad. But for one faithful listener, Nelson Eddy is still singing.
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#15. When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.
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#16. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.
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#17. Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book-
those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.
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#18. Live close to nature and you'll never feel lonely. Don't drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won't hack into your computer.
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#19. Crows are the world's great survivors. They are capable of living at any height and in any climate; as much at home in the back streets of Delhi as on the heights of Tungnath. Another
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#20. Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens.
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#21. But my animals are real animals, and they behave as animals usually do. It's really the humans who do strange things. Animals are predictable. Humans, never.
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#22. Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that's tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.
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#23. It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It
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#24. Life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.
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#25. Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
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#26. There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.
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#27. He tiger is the very soul of India,&when the last tiger has gone,so will the soul of the country.
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#28. I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.
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#29. One sure way to lose the world and everything in it, is to try grasping it.
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#30. As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.
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#31. Trees make you feel younger. And the older the tree, the younger you feel. Whenever
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#32. Ram Bharosa says he will never forget the smile she gave him when she left the shop. She
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#33. Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness.
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#34. I ... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.
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#35. The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.
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#36. Five more miles to go! We climb through rain and snow, A river to cross - A mountain to pass - Now we've four more miles to go! The
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#37. On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers. The
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#38. Cold weather doesn't care if your coat is old or new.
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#39. Love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day ...
A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!
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#40. She did not know it then, that some of the moving force in our life are meant to touch us briefly and go there way.
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#41. I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.
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#42. I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.
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#43. Live close to nature and your spirit will not be easily broken, for you learn something of patience and resilience. You will not grow restless, and you will never feel lonely.
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#44. Some memories are best left untouched.
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#45. The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.
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#46. I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.
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#47. As I walked home last night
I saw a lone fox dancing
In the cold moonlight.
I stood and watched. Then
Took the low road, knowing
The night was his by right.
Sometimes, when words ring true,
I'm like a lone fox dancing
In the morning dew.
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#48. When the whistling-thrush released
A deep sweet secret on the trembling air;
Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows,
Black rose in the long ago summer,
This was your song:
It isn't time that's passing by,
It is you and I.
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#50. On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.
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#51. The sea has had Conrad and Stevenson and Masefield, but the mountains continue to defy the written word. We have climbed their highest peaks and crossed their most difficult passes, but still they keep their secrets and their reserve; they remain remote, mysterious, spirit-haunted.
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#52. It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.
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#53. I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.
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#54. Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.
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#55. I don't travel so much now, I get tired
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#56. But men are cutting down the trees without replacing them. For every tree that's felled, we must plant two. Otherwise, one day there'll be no forests at all, and the world will become one great desert.
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#57. There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.
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#58. Everyone says she's mad.'
'How do they know?' I asked.
'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.'
'Is that being mad?'
'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.
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#59. To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.
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#60. It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere,
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#61. It is no use getting upset about delays in India; they come with unfailing punctuality.
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#62. The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
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#63. It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.
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#64. I believe that mountains do affect one's personality, if one can remain among them long enough; and if Sunil had grown up in the hills instead of in a refugee township, I have no doubt he would have been a completely different person.
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#65. She walked home through the darkening glade, singing of the stars; and the trees stood still and listened to her, and the mountains were glad.
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#66. The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.
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#67. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
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#68. Hitler's signature is ugly, as you would expect.
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#69. For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border
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#70. To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.
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#71. There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.
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#72. Williamson, writing in 1810, tells us that the passes were so infested with tigers that the roads were almost impassible. 'Day after day, for nearly a fortnight, some of the dak people were carried off at one or other of these passes.' In
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#74. Romance lurks in the most unlikely places.
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#75. When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
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#77. Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
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#78. money can't buy good health or a serene state of mind - especially the latter. You can fly to the ends of the earth in search of the best climate or the best medical treatment and the chances are that you will have to keep flying!
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#79. Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships
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#80. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards.
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#81. Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.
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#82. I think I have learnt something of the value of stillness. I don't fret so much; I laugh at myself more often; I don't laugh at others. I live life at my own pace. Like a banyan tree. Is this wisdom, or is it just old age?
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#83. kindest people are often those who have come through testing personal tragedies. A
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#84. Money often costs too much.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#85. I do not mind difficulties, as long as they are new difficulties.
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#86. Death moves about at random, without discriminating between the innocent and the evil, the poor and the rich. The only difference is that the poor usually handle it better.
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#87. It wouldn't be much fun living on a planet where grass could not grow.
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#88. Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.
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#89. Men may sometimes be rather similar, but no two women are ever alike.
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#90. For everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.
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#91. Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.
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#92. The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You
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#93. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?
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#94. Enough for me that you are beautiful: Beauty possessed diminishes. Better a dream of love Than love's dream broken; Better a look exchanged Than love's word spoken. Enough for me that you walk past, A firefly flashing in the dark.
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#95. Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.
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#96. She knew that Grandmother was no longer with them. The dazed look in the old man's eyes told her as much. She wanted to cry - not for Grandmother, who could suffer no more, but for Grandfather, who looked so helpless and bewildered; she did not want him to be unhappy.
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#97. To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
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#98. You don't have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.
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#99. The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striving after better hopes ... These things can never die.
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#100. When I'm writing there's nobody watching me. Today, it's hard to find a profession where you're not being watched!
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