Narissa Quotes & Sayings

Where life used to feel overcrowded, it now feels boundless as the sky. Where I used to feel shackled, I am now free to dance. — Narissa Doumani

We are all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole. — Narissa Doumani

...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process. — Narissa Doumani

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart... — Narissa Doumani

It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life. — Narissa Doumani

But this is at the same time a vivid way of saying that your soul, or rather your essential Self, is the whole cosmos as it is centered around the particular time, place, and activity called John Doe. Thus the soul is not in the body, but the body in the soul, and the soul is the entire network of relationships and processes which make up your environment, and apart from which you are nothing. — Alan W. Watts

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares. — Mike Wallace

There are many paths to the truth. We need only the courage to tread our own path, no one else's. — Narissa Doumani

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. — Clancy Brown

Whosoever does not believe in the existence of a sixth sense has clearly not regarded their own mother. How it is they know all they know about you, even those secrets you locked away so tightly in the most hidden compartments of your heart, remains one of the great mysteries of the world. And they don't just know - they know instantly. — Narissa Doumani

I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains. — Jonathan Freeman

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept. — Frank Herbert

A little care and a dash of creativity can transform the simplest items into great expressions of love. — Narissa Doumani

My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits. — Jeff Vespa

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself. — Narissa Doumani

Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society. — Narissa Doumani

The causes for happiness are within me, as are the answers to all life's important questions. — Narissa Doumani

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time. — Lianne La Havas

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it. — Diana Wynne Jones

He looked steadily in my eyes, and held my hand affectionally. Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known to exist. — Keira D. Skye

The ripple effect stemming from a single moment of love might be infinite in reach. — Narissa Doumani

Barrett lingers awhile. He's not eager to relinquish the strange pleasure of sitting in the green chair, surrounded by the ever-diminishing offerings that had, just yesterday, been daily articles, watching the apartment disappear, piece by piece. — Michael Cunningham

The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it. — Narissa Doumani

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny. — Aristotle.