Al Karmel Quotes & Sayings

It's my future and my life and I can't make myself live the way someone else wants me to. — J.A. Redmerski

If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating. — Patrick Ness

When you like a flower, you just pluck it.
But when you love a flower, you water it daily. — Gautama Buddha

Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved. — Julia Cameron

I feel I can fit with any player in the world. — John Wall

Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion; you can do it very well because you have the right attitude! — Israelmore Ayivor

The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another. — Kallistos Ware

There are thousands of ways to get rich, but there is only one way to reach the island of happiness. You need unconditional love to reach that island. — Debasish Mridha

Greed has no boundaries — Aristotle.

A poem exists only in the relation between poet and reader. And I'm in need of my readers, except that they never cease to write me as they would wish, turning their reading into another writing that almost rubs out my features. I don't know why my poetry has to be killed on the altar of misunderstanding or the fallacy of ready-made intent. I am not solely a citizen of Palestine, though I am proud of this affiliation and ready to sacrifice my life in defending the radiance of the Palestinian fact, but I also want to take up the history of my people and their struggle from an aesthetic angle that differs from the prevalent and repeatable meanings readily available from an unmediated political reading. — Mahmoud Darwish

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza. — Nicholas Tucker

Selim's first view of Europe was a vast, thick carpet of shit. — Sophie Hardach

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii) — Neena Verma

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success. — Seneca The Younger