Ruskin Bond Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards.

I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can

To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.

You don't have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.

He tiger is the very soul of India,&when the last tiger has gone,so will the soul of the country.

That man is strongest who stands alone!

Five more miles to go! We climb through rain and snow, A river to cross - A mountain to pass - Now we've four more miles to go! The

We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

Strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love

It is no use getting upset about delays in India; they come with unfailing punctuality.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

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

I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

Life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.

The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.

It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.

Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder,

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

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

She walked home through the darkening glade, singing of the stars; and the trees stood still and listened to her, and the mountains were glad.

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.

Trees make you feel younger. And the older the tree, the younger you feel. Whenever

Hitler's signature is ugly, as you would expect.

Men may sometimes be rather similar, but no two women are ever alike.

On the open road we are all brothers.

She did not know it then, that some of the moving force in our life are meant to touch us briefly and go there way.

The tree made it's first move, the first overture of friendship. It allowed a leaf to fall.

It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It

Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens.

One sure way to lose the world and everything in it, is to try grasping it.

When I'm writing there's nobody watching me. Today, it's hard to find a profession where you're not being watched!

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Money often costs too much.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

let nature reign, let freedom sing.

Grandfather was about sixty, a lean active man who still rode his bicycle at great speed.

It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere,

On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.

Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You

Cold weather doesn't care if your coat is old or new.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

could they get to the river in time?

There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.

What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?