Haft Seen Quotes & Sayings

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. — Confucius

I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect. — Janusz Korczak

The three social influences that we have emphasized - information, peer pressure, and priming - can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes. — Richard H. Thaler

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity. — Reona Peterson Joly

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that. — Nicole Kidman

Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life. — Tom Landry

We're all trying to decide wether your scores are up there are a miricule or a mistake.
a habit — Orson Scott Card

The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. — Ray Bradbury

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. — Cate Blanchett

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Accept your symptoms, don't complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering. — Franz Kafka

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route. — Tom Robbins

I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove. — Cara Castronuova

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Alexandre Dumas