Carthens Quotes & Sayings

Referring to my desire to appropriate Italian, he [Domenico Starnone] wrote, 'A new language is almost a new life, grammar and syntax recast you, you slip into another logic and another sensibility.' How much those words reassured me ... They contained all my yearning, all my disorientation. Reading this message, I understood better the impulse to express myself in a new language. To subject myself, as a writer, to a metamorphosis. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When you feel big and powerful, stand before a mountain; when you feel small and weak, stand before an ant. — Vinita Kinra

To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself. — John Berger

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you. — Joseph Butler

When I got hit I went from having 37-year-old eyes to having 65-year-old eyes. That's why I've got the glasses on - so my eye isn't constantly trying to focus and giving me headaches. But they also help me see better: my right eye is blurry. — Chris Pronger

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. — Jose Marti

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears. — Sathya Sai Baba

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for. — Neal A. Maxwell

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them. — Cesare Pavese

Struggle is not optional - it's neurologically required: in order to get your skill circuit to fire optimally, you must by definition fire the circuit suboptimally; you must make mistakes and pay attention to those mistakes; you must slowly teach your circuit. You must also keep firing that circuit - i.e., practicing - in order to keep myelin functioning properly. After all, myelin is living tissue. — Daniel Coyle

He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream, too. — Tiffany Reisz

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind. — Akhil Sharma

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights. — Dada Vaswani

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest. — Thomas Jefferson