The Present Minds

Visual Quotes

A cinematic collection for the overstimulated mind.

Lines lifted from the archive and given room, atmosphere, and visual weight - made to slow the scroll and stay in memory.

106 quotes 9 pages Curated archive

Kama is not the enemy. It is the aim that tells you the least about when you have arrived.

From Yayati spent a thousand years chasing enough. He never found it. Read article

Purusharth

There is a confidence that comes from living somewhere that has already survived everything it needed to survive.

From Dharkot village sat above the clouds and below the noise. Read article

Slow Meridian

The mountains do not run away. They just wait until you stop running.

From Dharkot village sat above the clouds and below the noise. Read article

Slow Meridian

The most useful thing a man can learn is not a financial strategy. It is the difference between his net worth and his self-worth.

From For most men, the question is never "how do you feel?" Read article

Mental Health

Most men are not unwilling to talk about how they feel. They have simply never been taught how.

From For most men, the question is never "how do you feel?" Read article

Men\'s Health

When the money wobbles, the man wobbles. Not because he is weak. Because nobody told him they were the same thing.

From For most men, the question is never "how do you feel?" Read article

Men\'s Health

Achievement without self-awareness is just a faster route to the same emptiness.

From For most men, the question is never "how do you feel?" Read article

Mental Health

I did not go to get my body back. I went to get myself back. They turned out to be two different things.

From The gym was not about my body. It was the only hour that was mine. Read article

Mind Matters

Motherhood rewrites your identity before you have had a chance to read what was already there.

From The gym was not about my body. It was the only hour that was mine. Read article

Mind Matters

London does not have one face. It has several and they do not know each other.

From What living in London actually feels like. Nobody warned me. Read article

London

Even if it is all an act, they have mastered it so well that it barely matters anymore. The act has become its own form of dignity.

From What Thailand quietly teaches you when you finally stop being a tourist Read article

Thailand

Some warnings travel faster than any guidebook. In Southeast Asia, Cambodia had become one of them.

From What I learnt from a Grab driver in Bangkok Read article

Travel