The simple truth... 18

My grandmother used to say, "You want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans."

Bella(2006), a movie about how quickly things can change.. about an unfinished career in football, an unwanted pregnancy, and an accidental change of life..

The simple truth.. 17

Life is like this big hot air balloon, you need to drop weights if you want to go higher!!!

The simple truth... 16

When you're on Mt. Everest.. things look smaller than they actually are..

(courtesy: a tripping friend)

The simple truth... 15

Soap Opera Woman: Excuse me.
Wiley: Excuse me.
Soap Opera Woman: Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. "Here's your change." "Paper or plastic?' "Credit or debit?" "You want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know?


(from the movie "Waking life"; full of intricate details about simple things you ignore...)

The simple truth...14

Luc: Why are you chasing after him?
Kate: Cause I love him and I'm afraid if he doesn't come back I will shrivel up and never be able to love anyone ever again.
Luc: You say that now but after a time, first you will forget his chin, his nose, and after awhile you will struggle to remember the color of his eyes and then one day you wake up and he's gone, his voice, his face, his smell and then you can begin again.

(from the movie "French Kiss"; a dialogue that kind of keeps coming back to me; whenever i try forgetting something or someone!)

The simple truth...13

Life is so like a slate.. you write, you wipe; you draw, you wipe; you spit, you wipe...

The simple truth...12

One of my favorite quotes: "Humor is a rubber sword, it allows you to make a point without drawing blood"..

The simple truth...10

Having a bad day is like having an apparently empty toothpaste tube... you just have to squeeze harder, you'll be amazed how much toothpaste it had hidden..

The simple truth...9

Being impatient is like running through a ground filled with mines, good chances you'll blow up... but being too patient is like sitting on a mine, and waiting for the kaboom.

The simple truth...8

[The earlier quote reminded me of this weird movie "The United States of Leland", it had a lot of weird quotes...this is one of them)

The worst part is knowing that there is goodness in people. Mostly it stays deep down and buried. Maybe we don't have God because we're scared of the bad stuff. Maybe we're really scared of the good stuff. Because if there's no God, well, that means it's inside of us and we could be good all the time if we wanted. So when we do bad things, it'd be because we want to or because we have to. Or maybe we just need the bad stuff to remind us what the good stuff is in the first place.

The simple truth...7

Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.
(from: The Life of David Gale, 2003)

The simple truth...6

You can't reason with an unreasonable person.

The simple truth...5

Reading a person gives you much more than reading any book.

The simple truth...4

Theres a little psychopath sitting in all of us... mostly, unleashed during our anger pangs...

The simple truth...3

For each philosophy, there exists an equal and opposite philosophy.

The simple truth...2

The difference between CAT and GRE...is somewhat like commercial and art cinema...

The simple truth...

Guys don't want their girlfriends to change, but they do...girls do want their boyfriends to change, but they don't...and that's the cause of most break-ups...

(courtesy: Sanchit)