Ismahan Ali Quotes & Sayings

It is only when we are truly alone, without someone else to lean on, left with our own inner solitude that we can undergo a process of change.The introspection that is needed to bring out the light that has dwindled down to ash and reignite the fire of our being. So let the darkness shape you, let it reform you, let it cradle you and birth you into a new life. Let the spark flame again, in the darkness is where you will find it. — L.J. Vanier

Like slavery, other human rights crimes have resulted in the loss of millions of lives. But only slavery, with its sadistic patience, asphyxiated memory, and smothered cultures, has hulled empty a whole race of people with inter-generational efficiency. Every artifact of the victims' past cultures, every custom, every ritual, every god, every language, every trace element of a people's whole hereditary identity, wrenched from them and ground into a sharp choking dust. It is a human rights crime without parallel in the modern world. For it produces its victims ad infinitum, long after the active stage of the crime has ended. — Randall Robinson

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents. — Don Yaeger

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible. — Jamie Dornan

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted. — Sean Penn

Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens. — Sophie Kinsella

I conquered a kingdom and found a treasure." His voice turns gravelly, low. "I won't let you go. Not now. Not ever. — Amanda Bouchet

Your love makes me beautiful."
"Then let me love you forever. — Sylvain Reynard

I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write. — Francesca Lia Block