If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. – a proverb Laughter is not always associated with comedy; Mary Beard studied laughter as a ‘social signifier’ in the Roman society....
As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is authenticity. As I began to love myself I ...
There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient. Alan Hovhannes, an American composer...
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. Edward Said, a Palestinian American literary theorist ...
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. J. B. Priestley, an English novelist, playwright, and bro...
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, / And the epitaph drear: `A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East’. Rudyard Kipling, a British poet and wr...
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, an Indian leader...
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumbl...
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Jawaharlal Nehru, an Indian Prime-Minister...
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one’s own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and...