Levitin Reisen 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

There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, to walk against the wind for pleasure. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego. — Robert Thurman

Bereaved people who make the most effort to avoid feeling grief, research suggests, take the longest to recover from their loss. — Oliver Burkeman

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore

It starts at midnight. — Suzanne Collins

Creativity is not a substitute for competence. — Mason Cooley

No one owes us anything. We only owe ourselves to get off our backsides, count our blessings, and face our challenges. When you live from that perspective, the gifts pour forth. — Bronnie Ware

Under bare lightbulbs, artists painted phantasmagorias powerful enough to threaten armies. — Molly Crabapple

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time. — Jack Finney

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. — Cindy Crawford

Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life — Lorin Morgan-Richards

I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself. — Samuel Shem

When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long after they're dead. It's a cheering thought. - from The Guide for the Newly Undead. — Molly Harper