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Ruskin Bond QUOTES

1 " and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. "

― Ruskin Bond , Scenes from a Writer's Life

2 " Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often. "

― Ruskin Bond , A Little Book of Life

3 " Happiness can be as elusive as a small fish darting away in a mountain stream. "

― Ruskin Bond , Funny Side Up

4 " love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...
A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive! "

― Ruskin Bond , Scenes from a Writer's Life

5 " People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.

Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves. "

― Ruskin Bond , Best Of Ruskin Bond

6 " As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey. "

― Ruskin Bond , Lamp is Lit

7 " ...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth. "

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8 " The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars. "

― Ruskin Bond , Lamp is Lit

9 " For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border "

― Ruskin Bond

10 " The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells. "

― Ruskin Bond , Delhi Is Not Far

11 " And when the rains were over and it was October and the birds were in song again, I could lie in the sun on sweet-smelling grass and gaze up through a pattern of oak leaves into a blind-blue heaven. And I would thank my God for leaves and grass and the smell of things, the smell of mint and myrtle and bruised clover, and the touch of things, the touch of grass and air and sky, the touch of the sky's blueness. "

― Ruskin Bond , Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas

12 " It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road. "

― Ruskin Bond

13 " To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast "

― Ruskin Bond

14 " I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody. "

― Ruskin Bond , The Room on the Roof

15 " Everyone says she’s mad.’
‘How do they know?’ I asked.
‘Because she’s different from other people, I suppose.’
‘Is that being mad?’
‘No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them. "

― Ruskin Bond , Best Of Ruskin Bond

16 " But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there.

The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again. "

― Ruskin Bond , Rusty, the Boy from the Hills

17 " All glory comes from daring to begin. "

― Ruskin Bond , Scenes from a Writer's Life

18 " Money often costs too much. "

― Ruskin Bond , A Book of Simple Living

19 " beckoned "

― Ruskin Bond , The Blue Umbrella

20 " I am at ease with children, who talk quite freely except when accompanied by their parents. Then it's mum and dad who do all the talking. 'My son studies your book in school,' said one fond mother, proudly exhibiting her ten-year-old. 'He wants your autograph.' 'What's the name of the book you're reading?' I asked. 'Tom Sawyer,' he said promptly. So I signed Mark Twain in his autograph book. He seemed quite happy. A schoolgirl asked me to autograph her maths textbook. 'But I failed in maths,' I said. 'I'm just a story-writer.' 'How much did you get?' 'Four out of a hundred.' She looked at me rather crossly and snatched the book away. I have signed books in the names of Enid Blyton, R.K. Narayan, Ian Botham, Daniel Defoe, Harry Potter and the Swiss Family Robinson. No one seems to mind.   ★ "

― Ruskin Bond , Roads To Mussoorie