Istratescu Silviu Quotes & Sayings

Education is our basic right. Not just in the West; Islam too has given us this right. Islam says every girl and every boy should go to school. In the Quran it is written, God wants us to have knowledge. He wants us to know why the sky is blue and about oceans and stars. I know it's a big struggle - around the world there are fifty-seven million children who are not in primary school, thirty-two million of them girls. — Malala Yousafzai

Nothing that is complete breathes — Antonio Porchia

Old empty chairs are not empty in reality; memories always sit there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact, that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason, and finds himself a true prince. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

...What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us. — Nick Carter

There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing that sometimes only tears can bring. But if there was a place for tears of relief, there might even be a place for tears of pride[.] — Alexander McCall Smith

A growl came from the back of my throat. I looked like shit. I felt like shit. I wasn't ready to deal with her shit. — Tijan

I've been blessed to have a long career. — Cedric The Entertainer

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money. — Robert Kiyosaki

Always deliver more in 'perceived value' than you take in cash value. — Jeff Blackman

The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Use your senses fully. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. Listen to the sounds; don't judge them. Listen to the silence underneath the sounds. Touch something - anything - and feel and acknowledge its Being. Observe the rhythm of your breathing; feel the air flowing in and out, feel the life energy inside your body. Allow everything to be, within and without. Allow the "isness" of all things. Move deeply into the Now. — Eckhart Tolle

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be. — Nikki Giovanni

I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic. — Etgar Keret