763 quotes found
“You dont know what its like to worry youll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because theyre healthy and youre not, because theyre kind and youre this angry, frustr...”
“It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.”
“The world you once knew is no more for you.”
“What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?”
“There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a persons noble life for that which has no value. Instead he could have earned a high rank (in Paradise) and everlasting bliss, but...”
“From the subtle afflictions caused by love of status is seeking after and aspiring positions of authority this is something whose reality is hidden and obscure. It is not understood except by thos...”
“Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.”
“Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you dont have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transp...”
“Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.”
“You can stand in the middle of a street and let the drops fall on you and feel refreshed. It's like God's little sprinkler.”
“Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.”
“So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under ...”
“I think of this girl, this bright light coming from such a dark place. I know that the things she believes about God and the Bible and hope and all that are very real to her. They're not nice sayin...”
“There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.”
“Thats when I realized it. I liked this girl. A lot. I liked her super-moist double chocolate chip cupcakes. I liked how kind and patient she was with the guests, the way her forehead crinkled when ...”
“Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.”
“If you notice, the moral law in the other legal codes separates people (the Laws of Manu, the caste system, the Code of Hammurabi with the slave/owner distinction). In Islam, the violator is inferi...”
“Like all of my important memories, it has a potency that has influenced the pocket of time that holds it, so I can remember that particular Saturday afternoon, even though in many ways it was no di...”
“Put your mouth on mine, Little Raven. Im ready for a taste of lemon cake, he said in a deep and tumbling voice.Maybe Im not so sweet, I whispered, wetting my lower lip with a sweep of my tongue.Log...”
“The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. It makes me sad, but gives hope as well. It connects me to my family, which I abandoned many year...”
