Omid Quotes & Sayings

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. — Baltasar Gracian

When I ask, "How are you?" that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul. — Omid Safi

In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart. — Omid Kordestani

Time is a rare resource and must be invested wisely — Sunday Adelaja

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. — Tom Hanks

Grace means suddenly you're in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own. — Anne Lamott

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction. — Omid Banyasad

Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy, wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone that we'll use the moment it comes close enough. — Orson Scott Card

We are like the watermelons. Each of us has a crusty external rind. A case that both protects us and keeps others out. The closer you get to the middle, that is to say - the closer you get to the heart - the sweeter we get. — Omid Safi

First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ... — Omid Mankoo

This disease of being "busy" (and let's call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave. — Omid Safi