Kafiya Wrapped Quotes & Sayings

The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese. — Monique Roffey

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear. — Raymond Carver

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
[Lat., Ultima semper
Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.] — Ovid

Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.' — Karen Hesse

If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me. — Melissa De La Cruz

Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter. With an average life expectancy of 78.2 years in the US (subtracting eight hours a day for sleep), I have around 250,00 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and my neighbors, or I can grasp after the vapor and the vanity for myself, dragging my feet, afraid to die and therefore afraid to live. And, like Adam, I will still die in the end. — N.D. Wilson

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. — Irvin D. Yalom

It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right. — Pittacus Lore

No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us. — V.S. Kemanis

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caesar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. — Joseph Addison

A boy has never wept ... nor dashed a thousand kin — Dutch Schultz

Life is too short to hold back, so live It as if It's not guaranteed. — Queen Of Spades