Monsurat Quotes & Sayings

In view of her present ease, Anais Nin knows that the description of what she was like as a child will be difficult to accept and so will occasion laughter [...] Nin also knows, however, how much we need to believe that such a triumph over handicaps is possible and how much our admiration for an accomplished person can be discouraging rather than encouraging to our own aspirations if we are not reminded of the struggles that preceded that success. Finally, she also knows that the tendency to cling to the idea that the person who exhibits remarkable qualities was invariably born with exceptional talents and advantages may be an inverted way of rationalizing one's own passivity and mediocrity. — Evelyn Hinz

Florida sea captains might place a pineapple at the front door of their house to let everyone know that they had returned from a sea voyage and that the home was open to visitors. Many — James Kaserman

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. — Tom Wolfe

The real subject of every painting is light. — Claude Monet

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. — Robert Greene

Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one. — Bob Proctor

Boys are so much drama. — Gabrielle Union

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is. — Katherine Boo

I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear! — Robin Wright

The more things you own, the more those things own you. — Don Dodge

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders. — Emmet Densmore

China and India will become something we never imagined. — Lidia Yuknavitch

An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small? — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I'd oblige you. (Xypher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon