Age appears to be best in four things, old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -Francis Bacon The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish […]
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Friendship Day quotes
Posted: 7th August 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: art, camus, cares, face, friendship, friendship day, funny, grief, healing, judge, lewis, quotes, yeats
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New Life-A poem by me
Posted: 9th July 2011 by aseem.ace in Poems, ThoughtsTags: adventure, adventurer, anxiety, beginnings, calcutta, fun, IIM, IIM-Calcutta, joy, life, new, spirit, while
A poem I wrote inspired by my first two weeks at IIM Calcutta.Its been fun and hoping for more good times ahead. New Life, New beginnings, Tides of change elicit a sigh, Joy and apprehension intermingled exist when an adventure is nigh, For even welcome change approaches with nostalgia in tow, Some emotions unbidden; […]
H. L. Mencken Funny Quotes
Posted: 8th June 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: alimony, animal, beautiful, bore, children, church, cynic, democracy, election, faith, funny, H.L, heaven, idealist, love, machine, man, married, Mencken, newspaper, politician, professor, quotes, sunday, thought
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson -quotes and excerpts
Posted: 8th June 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: childhood, emerson, excerpts, explore, god, ground, kitten, light, lover, man, manhood, mind, moment, nature, painter, past, quotes, ralph, roses, solitary, stars, suicide, thought, time, waldo
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the […]
Lost love- a short poem by me
Posted: 8th June 2011 by aseem.ace in PoemsTags: adolescent, bleak, cry, effort, first, goodbye, heartache, lost, love, morrow, smile, sorrow, sublime, wind, words
I don’t want to forget the day I saw you smile for the first time, It lit up everything around and made the moment sublime, I don’t want to forget the first time I saw you cry, tears streaming down your cheek, For that day my heart wept and never before nor since have I […]
Albert Camus-quotes and excerpts from his written works
Posted: 28th May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: albert, camus, Earth, evil, excerpts, freedom, happiness, history, human, idealist, ideology, imagination, justice, life, live, love, man, meaning, memories, quotes, reason, sea, stars, stupidity, suicide, war, world
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die. I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now […]
Jean-Paul Sartre-quotes and excerpts from his writings
Posted: 25th May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: atheist, face, family, fool, free, human, imagination, jean, man, murder, night, paul, poor, responsible, sartre
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right […]