Mahmoody Mahtob Quotes & Sayings

Acceptance of the nature of God, the world, and others seems integrally connected to an acceptance of the nature of one's self, too. And this, I think, is where freedom, ultimately, is found. Freedom is not an endless sea of choices, but an acceptance, embrace even, of both the nature and the grace at the core of our being and our becoming. — Karen Swallow Prior

I've seen firsthand how the bad leads to a generous abundance of good. — Mahtob Mahmoody

As hard as I fought to hold on to my anger, to continue to hate my dad, the tugging of the good memories eventually found an inroad to my heart. No one is all good or all bad. The reality that my father would forever be a part of me was inescapable. A big part of making peace with myself was rediscovering the good in him and claiming that as my inheritance. The act of forgiving wasn't like flipping a switch - forgiven . . . unforgiven . . . forgiven . . . unforgiven . . . forgiven. — Mahtob Mahmoody

Pre-Calamity people had been weird. Awesome too
evidence: castle
but still pretty weird. — Brandon Sanderson

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects. — Warder C. Allee

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail. — David Mamet

If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility. — Mike Cloud

The body is reached through the spirit. First you have to heal the soul. Then you can work on the body. — Mahtob Mahmoody

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity. — Franny Billingsley

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it? — Philip Yancey

I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films. — Jane Birkin

Don't follow your dreams, chase them — Portia Sarris

Unfortunately, you're going to have to face the consequences of what happened. Your friends got you into trouble, and you're going to have to pay the price for that. You knew it was wrong to take the clothes, but you did it, anyway. She — Susan Mallery

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. — Edward Gibbon

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work. — Boris Johnson