LOVE

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two."

~Louis de Bernieres

aap ko bhool jaye hum

aap ko bhool jaye hum, itane to bewafa nahi
aap se kya gila kare, aap se kuch gila nahi

sheesha-e-dil ko todna, unka to ek khel hai
humse hi bhool ho gayi, unki koi khata nahi

kash woh apne gham mujhe dede, to kuch sukoon mile
woh kitne badnaseeb hai, gham bhi jise mila nahi

jurm hai gar wafa to kya, kyu mein wafa ko chod doo
kehte hai is gunaah ki, hoti koi saja nahi

aap ko bhool jaye hum, itane to bewafa nahi
aap se kya gila kare, aap se kuch gila nahi

Be strong! Awake, arise, and stop not till the goal is reached!​

There is only one sin. That is weakness. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

Stand up and die game! ... Do not add one lunacy to another. Do not add your weakness to the evil that is going to come. That is all I have to say to the world. 

Be strong! ... The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair." None but the bravest deserves salvation. 

You believe in God. If you do, believe in the real God. "Thou art the man, thou the woman, thou the young man walking in the strength of youth, ... thou the old man tottering with his stick." Thou art weakness. Thou art fear. Thou art heaven, and Thou art hell. Thou art the serpent that would sting. Come thou as fear! Come thou as death! Come thou as misery!

All weakness, all bondage is imagination. Speak one word to it, it must vanish. Do not weaken! There is no other way out.... Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! If death comes that is the worst of our miseries let it come! We are determined to die game. That is all the religion I know. 

Therefore be not afraid. Awake, arise, and stop not till the goal is reached!​

- Swami Vivekananda