Bhuwanthapaliya Quotes

“When silence speaks,
simply listen to it.
Never analyze, question,
or argue with it.
Just listen to it
and let its sensation
lull you to sleep.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Let the sun
set on me.
Let its crimson sweat
of ferocity
spill all over me.
My heart is ready
for the chill of the darkness.
I put my best shirt on
and wait for a bridge of the light.
Let the darkness
rise from me,
the darkness that conceals
the bruises of the light.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“Don’t wait for the “perfect moment” to tune your life. The perfect moment is whenever you begin tuning it.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Don’t be obsessed by their speed. We all travel at our own pace. Our Sun will shine and our flowers will blossom for sure.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“It doesn’t matter who you are. The only thing that matters is how kind you are.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Miracles happen when we scatter little bits of love and kindness all around us. We don’t need to do anything special.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“There’s a butterfly that has been hovering around the window. It doesn’t know where to go. I am that butterfly.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“How beautiful your eyes,

that fuse the cadence of a rainbow

with the sapphire skies

as rhododendrons stand side by side.

O’ my dear valentine!”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“He washes

the stains

of his memories

at the banks

of her lips,

every day.

Her lips

are like

a canvas

where he

reflects

on his life

and the world

around

with a

paintbrush

of time.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Let me sleep inside your eyes and be the bridge between your clothed realism and my naked dreams.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The more birds we have around us, the less anguish we’ll have within us.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“He poured himself
a glass of her thoughts
two years after she won
a scholarship to heaven
to pursue her PhD
in life after death
and sat down beside
her antique gramophone
with his senses
straining in the dark.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“When you start to think of yourself bigger than everyone else, it is not too long before fate brings you down to the ground.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Nothing has ever opened up and nothing will open up in the future too for the unkind.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Spring isn’t in my destiny. But I don’t complain. There are beautiful flowers which bloom even in the dead of winter.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“Time puts everything in their proper place and whatever is misplaced is already on the way to where it belongs.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I have found it.
It is alive.
Peace is not dead.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I have never sought revenge, I don’t believe in retaliation. Peace is all I seek. Peace is all we need.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“We can paint our life with the color of our choice. But there are people who have only one color, they don’t have any choice.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“My problem is with the night,
incessant, rickety, desolate nights,
and not with the darkness.
There’s a lot of light inside me.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I’ve mastered the art of silence but this doesn’t mean that their noise doesn’t infuriate me. It does but it cannot deracinate my peace of mind now. To be exact, I still have an active volcano within me but now I can easily neutralize it too and sit all alone for hours, gazing up at the clouds of ashes floating past the moon, listening to the chirping of night birds.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“It’s hard to tell. Who is alive? Who is dead? We all look same here. We all are stung, harshly stung by life. However, we’ve to survive and we’ll survive.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“We will keep on planting flowers until spring is ours.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“We preach, we scream, we discuss, and we think, we know the world very well. But the world says nothing; it just slants its head with an elusive smile and unfolds our ignorance.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Peace will claw its way out, anyhow.
War cannot bury it forever.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“There are many paths to peace but every path begins from you.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“Kindness really knows no boundaries. It travels a lot and never leaves its glasses at home.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“What can be more gorgeous than the sunlight streaming through the flowers? Glowworm crawling among the fallen leaves at night, or an act of random kindness, perhaps.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Dust specks of an insalubrious ego floated into my eyes and stopped me from seeing beyond myself. In the evening, I washed my face and I was surprised to see the mountains so close.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Inside us, there is a part of every nation, every religion, every culture, every tradition and every language. We are the world.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya