Mohadjer Yasaman Quotes & Sayings

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess. — Shaquille O'Neal

("Anyone who uses 'childhood' and 'dream' in the same sentence usually gets my attention. — Christopher Hitchens

In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Fairy, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years. — James Stephens

The beginnings of all things are small. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well. — Neil Simon

Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to. — Herman Melville

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong. — Lance Armstrong

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days. — Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. — Robert Jordan

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether. — Paula Brackston

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects. — Duncan Sheik

His heart was a rose and in his skull another rose bloomed.
The room was full of grace. A sweet, clean grace, not washed clean, but clean as the innersides of the inner petals of a newly forced rosebud. — Nathanael West

Whether you sweep the toilet of a school or you make cloths. Whether you take pictures of dancers or you are a full-time house wife.

Whether you are a village jester or the president of a company, never trivialize what you do. Your work, no matter how small you think it is can make a difference in someone's life. It all begins with you. It's not what you do, it's how you do it.

I have seen a traffic police bring minutes of joy and happiness to people's lives in a way that Presidents of nations cannot. Anytime you trivialize what gives you an income, you sell yourself cheap and lose your dignity. Do your work with all excitement, joy and positivity. Learn and grow from it. And if you haven't found a job to do, look for one with the same zeal as you would do the actual work. Good morning and may God bless our efforts. Emi Iyalla — Emi Iyalla