Ihtirasin Quotes & Sayings

A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river ... — Edgar Allan Poe

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. — Margaret Deland

The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander. — Eknath Easwaran

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm. — Giorgio Moroder

First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other
people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice — Parker J. Palmer

And when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe. Still, — Tim O'Brien

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. — Rene Magritte

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life. — Nicole Kidman

I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later. — Inge Lehmann

If you let it, your testimony, and even what you're going through or have been through can help others. Don't let your past go to waste. Use it. — Naya S.

The sweet-tart mango dribbled cool juices over her eager lips, while the plump cherries burst between her teeth. — Shveta Thakrar

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India. — Swami Vivekananda

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. — Kami Garcia

It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad. — Catherynne M Valente

Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest — Beth Moore