Muzrai Quotes & Sayings

What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me — Elliott Smith

And they say that each man has but one dream and life is just a question of whether he attains them or not... — Oscar Simanjuntak

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president. — Coolio

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are. — Mahmoud Darwish

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person's faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next. — Sam Harris

Insta-love never works, you know that. — Anne Eliot

They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. — Jennifer Egan

You'll get through this. You fear you won't. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. Here in the pits, surrounded by steep walls and angry brothers, we wonder, Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten? We feel stuck, trapped, locked in. Predestined for failure. Will we ever exit this pit? — Max Lucado

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
So it goes.
Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them.
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned to a pillar of salt. — Kurt Vonnegut

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. — Yotam Ottolenghi