Mahnaz Pakravan Quotes & Sayings

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It's the inability to relate to another human being. It's the inability to love. — Richard Yates

It is easy to decide between right and wrong but it is difficult to decide between what is right and what is more right — Devdutt Pattanaik

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire

If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Look at me, Sylvia. Because I'm not going to say this again. I told you once that I'm a man who goes after what he wants, and I want you in my bed. I want to feel you naked and hot beneath me. I want to hear you cry out when you come, and I want to know that I am the man who took you there. — Anonymous

One day, I tell myself, the sting will subside and I'll be able to look at a fucking orange and not think of her.
Or maybe it won't. Maybe life is about living with the hauntings. — Tarryn Fisher

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and it's object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. — Mark Twain

And you didn't get children to trust you by gutting teenagers right in front of them, not even mean, ugly teenagers. That wasn't the way to make new friends. — Brom

You do not know me, Perry.""No, I guess not.""Perhaps by the end of the evening you will."I looked at her. What was that supposed to mean? Ever since her comment about blood, I realized I'd been thinking about Sissy Spacek in Carrie, the high school loser in her homemade prom dress, drenched in pig blood, unleashing a firestorm of psychokinetic destruction on the high school gym ... The distress must have shown on my face, because for the first time ever, Gobi actually laughed. Her eyes sparkled, a bright and glinting green behind her glasses, and for an instant the light transformed her entire face - the bland, expressionless mask slipped away to reveal an actual girl underneath: feminine, uninhibited, spontaneous, and alive. It occurred to me that I might have been missing something this whole time. — Joe Schreiber

The road from 'here' to 'there' is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow. — Radhanath Swami

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others. — Thomas Jefferson

If our faith in Jesus Christ isolates us from those who need him, there's something wrong with our faith - and our love. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. — Fanny Burney