Diwali Puja Quotes & Sayings

You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn't, with lotion, polish, and kindness. — Anne Lamott

Besides, what is pretty, anyway?" she continues. "Eyes? What does the color matter, as long as the ones you love can see themselves shining there? A mouth? Wide or narrow, so long as it speaks the truth. — Shirley Russak Wachtel

What the disorderly crave above everything is order, what the dislocated aspire to is location. — Wallace Stegner

Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Man must confront his worst fear to find his virtue. — Angela Brown

The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country. — Newt Gingrich

So is blurred
so is blurred
in me
what white-haired gentleman
separated once and for all
and said
this is the subject
this is the object

we fall asleep
with one hand under our head
and with the other in a mound of planets

our feet abandon us
and taste the earth
with their tiny roots
which next morning
we tear out painfully — Zbigniew Herbert

You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost! — Israelmore Ayivor

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Video looks like reality, it's more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels like something made up. — Michael Mann

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. — John Cusack

You wake up and feel a sudden sadness that you never felt before. You try to find a reason behind it but you cannot. You think coffee might change the feeling. So you make yourself a hot cup of coffee and put on the music player. Do you feel better now? — Avijeet Das

Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other. — Vivian Gornick

It's not my fault that the gray of everyone else's stories makes the color stand out. — Kathy Hepinstall

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something. — Taylor Kitsch