Sonali Deraniyagala Quotes

#1. There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#2. It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

Joseph Addison

#3. So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

Sarah Dessen

#4. After 34 years, I feel like I did when I was starting out. I feel excited and feel I've never been better doing what I do.

Louie Anderson

#5. 9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.

Anonymous

#6. Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn't recognize us.

David Mitchell

#7. Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

Daniel Alarcon

#8. Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#9. The first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?

Aldous Huxley

#10. How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#11. Their voices have doubled in strength now, not faded with time. Their chatter plays with my thoughts no end. And I am sustained by this, it gives me spark.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#12. Maybe it is not so overwhelming after all, to dissolve the divide between now and then.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#13. Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

T. K. V. Desikachar

#14. In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Plato

#15. I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back

Sonali Deraniyagala

#16. And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly escaped me until then, far from it, but the clarity of that moment was overwhelming. And I am still shaking.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#17. I was held for a few moments in the coherence and safety of the life we had, when so much seemed predictable.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#18. I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#19. My best relationship is the one I have with myself. I know I am always connected to a Universe that loves me. I draw loving people and loving experiences to me.

Louise Hay

#20. Seven years on, and their absence has expanded. Just as our life would have in this time, it has swelled.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#21. Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one ... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

Erin McKean

#22. It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.

Matt Haig

#23. My boys. I don't have them to hold. What do I do with my arms?

Sonali Deraniyagala

#24. I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start.

Sonali Deraniyagala