Aseema Quotes & Sayings

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread. — Matthew Specktor

deep. Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don't understand that. Over — Charles Martin

The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things. — Ibn Ata Allah

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better. — Wendelin Van Draanen

After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading in the wrong direction. — Rachel Joyce

By which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All — Thomas Merton

I remember thinking of the passage in The Sword in the Stone where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, 'reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost'. — Helen Macdonald

Bitterness can compromise a heart the way fireblight disease can consume an apple orchard. — Nicole Deese

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it. — Henri Matisse

He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied. — Gillian Flynn

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ... — Susan Sontag

Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title. — Richard Nelson Bolles

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward. — R. Buckminster Fuller

In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc. — Kurt Braunohler