Caravanserai Quotes & Sayings

We either live with intention or exist by default. — Kristin Armstrong

In the Ottoman Empire,' she began, 'the camel traders have stopping places along their trade routes called caravanserai. Sometimes they are hundreds of miles apart, over desert or mountain range, but they travel safe in the knowledge that there will be a place where they can shelter and find succour at the end of their journey. Even if they have never been that way before, they are sure that there will be such a place; that sooner or later, they will find a caravanserai.' Annibale sat forward, interested. ' How do they know?' 'They do not know. They have faith. 'He sat back again. 'I think Annibale did too. That is why my mother named me so.' She could see that it cost him to talk of her. 'She liked the story. She said no one could know what lay beyond today, but you had to hope, and be brave, and trust that all would be well. — Marina Fiorato

He has told us that He is the hungry one. He is the naked one. He is the thirsty one. He is the one without a home. He is the one who is suffering. These are our treasures, she said, looking at the rows of pallets in the caravanserai. They are Jesus. — Mother Teresa

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way. — Omar Khayyam

The function of suspense is to put the reader in danger of an overfull bladder. — Sol Stein

I've become increasingly agoraphobic. — Molly Crabapple

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women. — Margaret Cavendish

If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives. — Sharon Salzberg

To know what you want, you need to know yourself. — Amy Leigh Mercree

He and his kind having been almost entirely eclipsed by the Parisian post-structuralists and their caravanserai of prolix and impenetrable evangels and dogmatically zealous acolytes. — Stephen Fry

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls. — Guido Palau

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. — Li Mu

The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of man's faculties, but only at hope. — Jorge Luis Borges

We can only prosper where we are. — S. Kelley Harrell

It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before. — Kelly Thompson

TV likes you to talk about the superficial. — Donna Brazile

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.there's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening. — Moby

Well, things can't get much worse
that's one consolation, the Muskrat groaned. He had hidden himself in a forest of bracken in the bathroom, and had wrapped his head in a handkerchief so that nothing should grow into his ears. — Tove Jansson