Duzela Quotes & Sayings

It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing. — Cheri Huber

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. — Lord Byron

There was an old man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp;
When they asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't,
But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet. — W.S. Gilbert

We're practical and sensible but we're also dreamers. Don't forget that part of you. There's nothing wrong with being sensible, but dreams are what make you fly. And you're destined to touch the sky. — S.H. Kolee

First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice?
Second don: State the alternative preferred,
With reasons for your choice. — A.E. Housman

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance. — Nick Tosches

Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world. — Anne H. Janzer

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion. — Alexandre Dumas

[B]eauty is always an affair of knowledge. — Arthur Schopenhauer

This is a man with an old face, always old ... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born. — Edgar Lee Masters

The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year. — Hans Vestberg

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that. — Pharrell Williams