Haji Mastan Quotes & Sayings

Almost everything that I've ever worried about has never happened .. — Ian Tucker

If you rely on others to accomplish something in life, you'll end up accomplishing nothing. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Race is a biased concept; we are in fact all Africans. — Ben Tolosa

I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't dissatisfied with mine here at all. — Albert Camus

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice. — Deborah Smith

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen. — Fritz Haber

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct. — Charles Caleb Colton

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it. — Danah Boyd

The God, when he draws near, will the heart stand fast.
But, oh my, shame! when of
My shame!
And let me say at once
That I approached to see the Heavenly,
And they cast me down, deep down
Below the living, into the dark cast down
The false priest that I am, to sing,
For those who have ears to hear, the warning song.
There — Friedrich Holderlin

Life is too short not to be who you are — Libba Bray

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears
the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated ... — Abraham Verghese

Each time people come into contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love. — Mother Teresa

I woke up to an ache in my chest, the smell of chocolate, and the sound of the ghost making a racket in the kitchen. Now, I'm not the sort to dwell on doom and sorrow. Life is too short for that. But I should at least try to describe the ache briefly: It is not the kind that comes from eating tacos too late at night. It's the kind that comes from being left behind. I think my heart is smart enough to know there's a place I should be filling with new memories, new jokes, and wondrous adventures with the one person I loved most of all. But that person is gone now. And so, my heart has a giant hole. I call it The Big Empty. — Natalie Lloyd

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull. — Marya Hornbacher