Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Who am I?


“Who am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each ‘I’, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world” - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children






"The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul" - Eliza Farnham



“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.” - Salman Rushdie



" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face" - Victor Hugo



"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?" - Pablo Picasso



“A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong” -  Charles Wadsworth



"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit" -            Albert Schweitzer



“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?” ― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children



“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison” - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

3 comments:

  1. Every eye, a glaring truth.
    Amazing weave of perspectives and pictures Abi!

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  2. Enjoyed going through your blog...

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  3. True facts of life and extremely thoughtful post..! And there are truly some gems in here...!

    “Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.”

    Excellent insight..!! The past can also push us to great lengths, there are certain situations in life, it's quite impossible to forget even if we wanted to..! And memory is God given space to store and recall what we have experienced and learnt.. part of our design by creation is remembrance..!! Forget does not mean not to remember, but how much not to focus our attention on..

    True... and the incredible lil people..children, even though they have a lot to learn, still teaches adults many things about life..timeless wisdom in its entirety..!

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