Rkia Elaroui Quotes & Sayings

You should be proud of the pleasure you give to others' eyes. — BadSquirrel

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university. — Timothy Noah

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. — Marcus Garvey

Our spiritual vocation involves giving up our resistance to the here now. Needless to say, this is no easy task. The roots of the desire to become lie deep within us,and won't come out without a great deal of conscientious awareness. It's a gradual process, and probably the work of a lifetime for all of us. — Terence Grant

I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it. — Jerry Lewis

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. — Eugene Cernan

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port. — Rich Mullins

Yet the very name Ganga-Sagar, joining, as it did, river and sea, clear and dark, known and hidden, served to remind the migrants of the yawning chasm ahead; it was as if they were sitting balanced on the edge of a precipice, and the island were an outstretched limb of sacred Jambudvipa, their homeland, reaching out to keep them from tumbling into the void. — Amitav Ghosh

And this brings us to our final type of man: the one who asserts himself out of defiance of his own weakness, who tries to be a god unto himself, the master of his fate, a self-created man. He will not be merely the pawn of others, of society; he will not be a passive sufferer and secret dreamer, nursing his own inner flame in oblivion. He will plunge into life,
into the distractions of great undertakings, he will become a restless spirit ... which wants to forget ... Or he will seek forgetfulness in sensuality, perhaps in debauchery ...
At its extreme, defiant self-creation can become demonic, a passion which Kierkegaard calls "demoniac rage," an attack on all of life for what it has dared to do to one, a revolt against existence itself. — Ernest Becker

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry. — Kim Hyesoon

Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip. — Samuel R. Delany

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever. — Jack White

For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country. — Alain Juppe

Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them. — Haruki Murakami