ANAND THAKUR

"The more a person understands the truth of this world, the more they quietly drift away from the crowd."

"If everything you offered wasn't enough, offer your absence. Salt isn't on the menu, but when it's missing, you feel it."

"No one talks about the personality shift as you get older. Where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. You want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you."

"The only thing you can control is how you love someone, not what they do with the love you give them."

"I only have one life and I'm supposed to spend it proving to strangers that I'm a good person? I'm a devil, go away."

"The older I get, the less I want to be impressive. I want mornings that don't rush me. Conversations that don't drain me. A life that doesn't ask me to explain myself."

"They say every storm has two purposes: Destroy what isn't solid... and reveal what is."

"We stress too much for a life that can end at anytime. Make sure to live."

"It's sad how we keep searching for light in the same person who had left us alone in the dark."

"We need to learn the difference between connection & attachment. Genuine connection fills up your cup, attachment drains it."

"The way I detach myself from people is by far the scariest part about me, because I can love you to death and never speak to you again."

"Don't be the reason someone skips a meal, hates waking up, or feels left out. Your words & actions stick with people forever."

"The older I get the more I realise happiness is quiet mornings, a clean space, early nights, a safe home and people who don't drain my energy."

"Your mindset is either a weapon or a weakness. Train it to fight for you, not against you."

"We romanticize the stars, but forget the dark is what made them visible."

"You get what you fight for, not what you wish for."

"Give it no attention and it will have no power over you."

"I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again."

"I wrapped myself in thorns and then hated everyone who didn't want to touch me."

"In the end... We only regret the chance we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make."

"The devil wouldn't be attacking you so hard if there wasn't something valuable inside of you. Thieves don't break into empty houses."

"It's hard to sleep at night when your mind is full of unsaid thoughts."